This April, students in Florence are invited to experience yoga in a supportive, natural setting — at 50% off.

Many people in the modern world meet yoga through movement. They come through the doorway of stretching, flexibility, mobility, fitness, injury prevention, or perhaps beauty. But in Patañjali’s map, āsana is not the first limb, nor the whole tree.

A mountain spring does not become clear by argument. It becomes clear when mud settles and fresh water keeps moving. Niyama is this fresh movement. Without it, yoga can remain a costume. With it, yoga becomes a climate.