Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. Today we're exploring a slightly different topic on the show. It's something that I'm deeply passionate about and I know a lot of you out there are as well. We're chatting about zero waste living and yoga. And I know you're thinking, Aru, hold on, this isn't exactly yoga, is it?

Well, not technically,

but if you explore the yamas a little more,

you will see that ancient yogis never really had any material possessions

or rather they had very little possessions

as they believed that these possessions

were actually they impeded their path to self-realization now you and i don't need to live like

ancient yogis but we can absolutely have this conversation and take a look at how we interact

with our community our planet and our

environment and how we can be more conscious consumers and have very little impact or have

better impact on the environment and the planet. So I'm going to give you a little insight into how

I interpret the yamas when it comes to being a consumer.

And my intro today is a little longer than what I usually do on the show because I want

to give you the yoga insight before I hand it over to our wonderful guest this week.

Now, let's explore the yamas and I'm not going to talk to you

about the yamas in detail, but just how I interpret them as a consumer. The first yama is, of course,

Ahimsa. And Ahimsa talks about kindness. And we can't exclude the impact our actions have on this planet. And it's about re-examining how we can't exclude the impact our actions have on this planet and it's about re-examining

how we can be in harmony with the choices we make and how that impacts the planet.

Satya, the second Yama, is coming to terms with what our collective past actions have done

and how climate change is affecting us and our future

generations and what can we do to actually help this in whatever way we can. As Thea, the third

yearma, teaches us not to covet that possessions that we don't have or that don't belong to us.

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