Yama Niyama - Vidya Kunte

2. Teacher’s Training Diploma
Batch – 26
Topic – Yama-Niyama
Facilitator – Mrs. Vidya Kunte
Ghantali Mitra Mandal

3. Guruvarya Anna

4. “ Yoga is the most valuable inheritance of
the present. It is the essential need of
today and the culture of tomorrow.”
- Swami Satyanand Saraswati
 Science of right living
 To be incorporated in daily life
 Works on every aspect
 Physical
 Vital
 Mental and Emotional
 Psychic and Spiritual

5. Need of Yog
 Beyond the basic needs of individual
 Real tool to combat social ill-being
 A means to connect with true self
 Manifest harmony
 For compassion to emerge
 Not to be confused with simply being physical
exercises
 Aid to establish – new perception, what is real and
necessary
 Embraces – inner and outer realities
 Living knowledge through practice and experience

6. The Journey of Yoga
from
Purification
to
Perfection

7. Ashtanga/Raj Yog
यम नियम आसि प्राणायाम प्रत्याहार धारणा
ध्याि समाधय: अष्टौ अग्ङानि ॥ २ - २९ ॥
 Yama
 Niyama
 Asana
 Pranayama
 Pratyahara
 Dharana
 Dhyana
 Samadhi

8. Yama – Restraint, Self-regulation
अहहिंसा सत्य अस्तेय ब्रह्मचयय अपररग्रहा:
यमा: ॥ २ - ३० ॥
 Ahimsa – non-violence, non-injury, non-
harming (mind, word, action)
 Satya – honesty, truthfulness
 Asteya – absteneince from theft, non-stealing
 Bramhacharya – celibacy, awareness of highest
reality
 Aparigraha – non-hording, non-possesiveness

9. Niyama – Practices of Self-training
शौच सिंतोष तप:स्वाध्याय ईश्वरप्रणणधािानि
नियमा: ॥ २ - ३२॥
 Shaucha – purity of body and mind (mental
and physical surroundings)
 Santosha – satisfaction, contentment
 Tapah – austerity, training the self
 Swadhyaya – self-study, reflection of
scriptures
 Ishwar pranidhan – dedication, devotion and
submission to the God

10. What acts as Hindrances?
 Ignorance
 Convenience
 Justifying ones own thoughts and
actions
 Lack of efforts and commitment

11. Convenient Practice
Anuvrata
(Partial
Observance)
Partial Results
Mind-Body-Thoughts
Time-Space
Mahavrata
(Total
Observance)
Results in
Totality

12. NO YOGA NO PEACE
KNOW YOGA KNOW PEACE
NOW YOGA NOW PEACE

13. हर ीः ॐ तत् सत्

14. THANK YOU