The second limb, the niyamas, or observances, offers five daily practices to help strengthen our connection to ourselves; it invites us to clean up our act to make space for liberation to happen. It requires a willingness to reflect on who we are and the attachments we have to our own stories. Once we commit to the yamas and niyamas, Patanjali says, we can then move on to the other limbs of yoga by preparing the physical body through asana, extending and controlling the breath using pranayama, moving the senses inward with pratyahara, cultivating the power of concentration through dharana,
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