03/09/2026
One thing to note is that Patañjali started his path to enlightenment with focusing on how we treat others. As we hold space for others and their humanity, we begin to cleanse our internal ideologies so that we can be with what is, rather than what we are conditioned to believe should be. Instead of othering people, by race, nationality, religious preference etc., we begin to see everyone as human and divine.
The practice of yoga is the practice of unlearning our conditioning so that we can abide in Absolute Truth. This is enlightenment.
The next posts about the niyama, are reflections on how to participate with that unlearning. 💕