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From Asana to Pranayama

Our last meeting of the Yoga Sutra Discussion Group covered the 3 yoga sutras on asana (posture). It is always amazing to note that out of the 195 yoga sutras,…

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What is Asana?

Our next meeting of The Yoga Sutra Discussion Group will be Sunday, Jan 31st at 11:00am. We will be discussing the three sutras regarding the most prominent limb of what…

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Observe Your Self – The Niyamas

The principles of Niyama…emphasize the importance of self-discipline. Mastery of yoga would be unrealizable without the observance of the ethical principles of yama and niyama. BKS Iyengar – Light on…

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Yoga’s Moral Depth – The YAMAS

“The YAMAS are the great, mighty, universal vows, unconditioned by place, time, and class.” Yoga Sutra II.31 – BKS Iyengar in “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” Yoga is…

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Discrimination and Introspection

With the last couple of Yoga Sutra discussion meetings, we covered the Yoga Sutras that list and give the definitions and results of developing the Yamas and the Niyamas, the…

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The Niyamas – Sutra Study on Nov 22

I am sorry I am late with this post covering our last Yoga Sutra discussion on the first limb of yoga, The Yamas (moral precepts), along with our next assignment…

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Why Yoga? And let us Begin…

In our Yoga Sutra discussion group last Sunday we discussed the sutras in the second chapter that lead up to the 8 limbs of yoga. It was a great recap…

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Next Yoga Sutra Discussion – Sept 27th

During the last meeting of the Yoga Sutra discussion group we navigated the reason for the relationship between purusa (the seer, pure consciousness) and Prakrti (the seen, Nature). This relationship…

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August 30 – Yoga Sutra Discussion

One of the questions that arose in the last discussion was about the last Sutra on pain, II.17 – “the cause of pain is the association or identification of the…

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Shifting Perspectives

Again, I will take the title of Chapter 10 in “The Art of Happiness” by HH the Dalai Lama to recap this week’s reading and I am also including thoughts…