One of the eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga is yama or abstinence. Abstinence may appear like a difficult practice, but it is simple. Once you value how precious you really are, you will naturally and willfully abstain from anything that tarnishes that purity. If intellectual discipline to choose the right path is hard for you, just fall in love with your own inner beauty, and sacredness. Then abstinence from things like untruth, violence, covetousness, and indulgences will come easy. You will naturally begin to guard the treasure that you are, and assume the “posture of restraint.” We have the blessing of voluntary movement, and can assume any posture at will –- a posture of love, a posture of dance, a posture of inspiration. With each little gesture, a string of gestures is formed, with a string of gestures, a lifetime if formed. Yoga is the science of refining our everyday postures. All we have to do is change the tone and flavor of our gestures and postures a wee-bit, manipulate the sequence a little, and we could arrive at a far great harmony than we ever imagined. It is a gift we are all already granted at the moment of our birth. We are in Yoga all the time, for we are eternally in Union with the Source. We are all already there! The whole journey is an act of realizing it.