Lila Yoga

Concepts

Shaucha

śauca

Cleanliness or purity, the first niyama: clean body, clean space, clean inputs.

The first observance is cleanliness, and the texts are blunter about it than the studio version:

Internal and external cleanliness being established, there arises disgust for one's own body, and non-intercourse with others.
YS 2.40tr. Swami Vivekananda, 1896
The original Sanskrit

śaucāt svāṅgajugupsā parair asaṃsargaḥ

Disgust for one's own body is not a line you will hear in a modern class. The next sutra gives the friendlier half of the claim:

There also arises purification of the Sattva, cheerfulness of the mind, concentration, conquest of the organs, and fitness for the realisation of the Self.
YS 2.41tr. Swami Vivekananda, 1896
The original Sanskrit

sattvaśuddhisaumanasyaikāgryendriyajayātmadarśanayogyatvāni ca

Cheerfulness, concentration, fitness for practice. The old texts are sometimes spikier than the tradition that quotes them; this site shows them as they are.