So I was recently chatting with a student about my day… student:”what are you up to today?” matt: “running errands. very exciting. composting, recycling, heading to the bank.” student: giggling a bit “oh that is sooo MATT.” me: a bit taken aback, thus time for thought and then write a blog piece that is very [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yama’
Living Yoga: Re-Cycling, Composting, and Consumerism (amongst other things)
Posted in Living Yoga, tagged composting, ethics, recycling, vegetarian, Yama, Yoga on April 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ahimsa
Posted in Life, Yoga Theory, tagged Ahimsa, Ashtanga, Sutra, Yama, Yoga on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a little something I wrote a while ago… Ahimsa! In Sanskrit there is a term…Ahimsa…which translated means non-harming. A beautiful concept for a word! I don’t know of many other words that symbolize this concept. There are millions of words for the opposite though…destroy, harm, hurt, wreck, ruin, break, crush, beat, smash, [...]
