Book Club
November 6, 2025, through March 26, 2026
This season, you're invited into a different kind of book club—one rooted in softness, self-honoring, and shared inquiry. Together, we’ll move slowly through The Yamas & Niyamas, Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice, by Deborah Adele, allowing space for digestion, conversation, and connection.
Whether you read deeply, skim lightly, or just show up to listen—you are welcome here.
This is for you. A place to pause, reflect, and be held in community.
Drop in anytime this Fall/Winter,
Jen
Let this be the season you choose you.
📘 Why This Book?
In Deborah's Own Words
“It doesn't need to take a death sentence for us to change. We have the choice to burst forth boldly and claim our lives in this very moment, and yoga's ten guidelines, the Yamas & Niyamas, can support that very leap into the life that we seek. Under their guidance, the turbulence and drama that are often a familiar part of our life begin to disappear.
The result of a skillfully lived life is nothing less than joy. Not the kind that comes when things are going our way and disappears just as quickly, but the kind that bubbles up from within. The kind of joy that comes from our own sense of mastery in life that no matter what life brings, we are ready. Maybe there is nothing to figure out ahead of time, there is only a life to live well ... or not.
Which are you choosing for yourself?" ~ Deborah, page 13
Tell me more about
the Yamas & Niyamas
"The Yamas & Niyamas may be thought of as guidelines, tenets, ethical disciplines, precepts, or restraints and observances. I often think of them as jewels, because they are the rare gems of wisdom that give direction to a well-lived and joyful life. In yogic philosophy, these jewels sit as the first two limbs of the 8-fold path." p 15
The Yamas
(Focus: Fall into Winter)
The Niyamas
(Focus: Winter to Equinox)
Ahimsa (Nonviolence) is the foundation to all other guidelines. It is a stance of right relationship with others and with self that is neither sefl-sacrifice nor self-aggrandizement.
Satya (Truthfulness) partners wtih nonviolence. The marriage of these two guidliens createas a powerful dance between two seeming opposites. We can appreciate this statement when we begin to practice speaking our truth without causing harm to others.
Asteya (Nonstealing) guides our attempts and tendencies to look outward for satisfaction. We steal from the earth, we steal from others, and we steal from ourselves. We steal from our own opportunity to grow ourselves into the person who has the right to have the life they want.
Brahmacharya (Nonexcess) implies an awareness of sacredness in all our actions and an attentiveness to each moment that moves us into a stance of holiness. From this place of sacredness, the boundary is set to leave excess behind and live within the limits of enough.
Aparigraha (Nonpossessiveness) xxx
Saucha (Purity) xxx
Santosha (Contentment) xxx
Tapas (Self-Discipline) Xxxx
Svadhyaya (Self-Study) Xxx
Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender) xxx
What Others are Saying?
🌱 Pricing with Care
This gathering is offered with a sliding scale. Choose what’s right for you:
Full Course ~ $120 (regularly $132)
Individual Drop-In Reciprocity Invitation:
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$12 (individual drop-in, recommended min to support Jen.)
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$1 (if you’re experiencing financial hardship.)
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$25 (have a little extra? Support another’s place here.)
Your presence is enough. And your contribution, at any level, is valued.