Hi Poser,

Here's another "poser" for you (poser "a question or problem that is puzzling or confusing," Dictionary.com)

What we have in the West is the commodified and packaged version of yoga for consumers, right?

The first two "limbs" of yoga (as in, ash + tanga "eight limbs") are yama and niyama, "morality" and "practices." (See https://www.ananda.org/yogapedia/ashtanga/)

Asana is just one of the eight limbs, as in, just a fraction of the whole study and practice. Some people do pranayama, so that's two out of eight... and generally that's it.

Westerners hear the word "morality" and we want to run the other direction, because... because... actually, why is that?

If "morality" is traditionally the first of the eight limbs, why isn't it brought up at all when modern Westerners talk about yoga?

Your thoughts?