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Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

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Can the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali be applied today? Sutra means thread. Yoga Sutra is the thread of yoga. Most interpretations of the Yoga Sutra are complex and hard to understand. After investing more than 12 years studying, chanting and teaching the Yoga Sutras, Ruben Vasquez guides you on a journey exploring the wisdom of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. This ancient wisdom is relevant and applicable for yoga students and teachers today. Besides clear explanations and examples, each episode offers useful questions to reconnect to your natural clarity and harmony. Unravel the Thread is an invitation to be joyfully present in your life.

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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Distractions

April 19, 2024 23:12 - 9 minutes - 11.7 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Distractions The most important skill to cultivate Distractions will happen, sooner or later, either a few times or countless times. Even when we get distracted , noticing that we got distracted indicates that we are present and that we are aware that our attention moved away from our intended focal point. What is important is to keep returning to our focus, to this moment. And, returning without struggle, effort, or self-judgment and with a gentle smile. https:...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness - Open awareness

April 07, 2024 20:51 - 16 minutes - 12.4 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness - Open awareness Open Awareness is the experience of being open to whatever each moment brings Would it be useful to grow in our ability to modulate our awareness so that we can choose to focus on an idea or object or just be in open awareness?  What happens if you try this exercise several times? What do you notice? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book Unravel the Thread by...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness - Concentration

March 25, 2024 13:01 - 16 minutes - 18.8 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of awareness - Concentration What does it feel like when our mind focuses on just one thing? Exploring the range of awareness by focusing our mind on a single object of concentration. When we try to concentrate on a single thing, most of us find that our minds are easily distracted. This exercise strengthens our ability to concentrate. This ability only becomes stronger if we keep returning to our chosen focus. What would happen if you tried this practice fo...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness and experiences

March 11, 2024 21:31 - 14 minutes - 17.2 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Rango foawareness and experiences What happens when you explore your Range of Awareness? Most of us find that developing our sensitivity to natural processes enriches our experiences. in yoga, we try to expand our awareness so that we can participate in our lives consciously and intentionally. We experience the world through our senses, and our mind makes sense of the sensory information it receives by using its archive of knowledge, misconceptions, imagination, m...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Complaining

February 25, 2024 17:50 - 11 minutes - 11.2 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Complaining Do you ever complain? What do you complain about? Is it possible to modulate your complaining? Are our complaints a way to release a build-up of tension and irritation? Or is our complaining an expression of frustration because our expectations do not match the situation we find ourselves in? The first path is a very practical way of turning complaints into action. The second way to act is to see if our complaints are enabling us to improve the quality...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Changing direction - Uplift

February 16, 2024 15:46 - 10 minutes - 9.16 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Changing direction - Uplift Practicing pratipaksha bhavana in our lives A simple and effective way to turn unhelpful tendencies around. Notice the tendencies and replace them with life affirming and uplifting tendencies. Would it be possible that cultivating an uplifting attitude makes us feel happy and radiant? Are you curious to experience what happens when you immerse yourself in the practice of Pratipaksha Bhavana?  https://simple-yoga.org  This content i...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Exploring resistance

February 07, 2024 13:34 - 12 minutes - 13.6 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Exploring resistance What do you resist? Resistance tends to arise at the boundaries between pain and tolerable discomfort. How does resistance manifest itself in you? What can we do when we feel resistance? Is our resistance a way of defending our sense of self? Is it possible that our resistance is a sign that we are trying to hold on too tightly to a belief or self-concept? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali acc...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness in Ashtanga Yoga

January 23, 2024 03:22 - 14 minutes - 3.95 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness in Ashtanga Yoga Can Range of Awareness be the integrating element of all the limbs of yoga? What happens when we explore the possible options available to us in the Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pratipaksha Bhavana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi? Can the idea of Range of Awareness help us enhance our sensitivity? And, what happens as we refine our sensitivity in all aspects of our yoga practice? What do we discover? https://simp...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Motion, Action, Awareness

January 16, 2024 17:39 - 10 minutes - 13 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Motion, Action, Awareness All yoga practices offer opportunities to explore and expand our awareness. The notion of Range of Motion is expanded to mean the totality of potential range of healthy movement that we can consciously do. Range of Action is the complete set of possible variations along the many variables involved in healthy activity. Range of Action encompasses all the different aspects of you that are involved in the activity. Using your awaren...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Two natural tendencies

January 08, 2024 05:12 - 11 minutes - 11.6 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Two natural tendencies Recognizing two natural tendencies that support us To overcome tendencies toward negativity it is useful to remember that we have two very useful natural tendencies that require no effort: Moving toward feeling better and moving away from pain. Become familiar with how they feel, what happens when you move toward feeling better? What do you feel when you notice pain? How are you using these two tendencies in your own practice of all aspects ...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Gradual Progress

December 12, 2023 17:49 - 10 minutes - 12.6 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Gradual progress Can you recognize that you are making progress toward your goal? Examine your past actions, are you moving toward your goal? Some of our actions may have taken us away from our goal. This happens to most of us. Noticing that we stray from the goal is an indication of progress. Would you trade places with an earlier version of yourself?' https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book Unra...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: It's up to you

November 27, 2023 13:38 - 8 minutes - 12 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: It's up to you Embarking on the journey of self-discovery is your choice YOGA, You Organically Growing Aware. Four aspects of yoga. Yoga cannot change your beliefs, dispositions, intentions, and actions, only you can! And because this is a lifelong, personal process, it is imperative that you make the conscious decision to do it for yourself. https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book Unravel the Thr...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Natural breath - long breath

November 22, 2023 13:44 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Natural breath, long breath Bringing our awareness to the process of breathing In this practice we explore two ways of breathing, natural breath, and long breath. We alternate between these two options, paying attention to where the breath creates movement. As you pay attention to your breath, is it easy to stay focused? Do you feel more relaxed and at ease? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What are you feeling?

November 13, 2023 23:21 - 26 minutes - 34.6 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What are you feeling? What do  you notice when you pay attention to your emotions? In this practice, we explore how emotions manifest in our bodies through sensations, as well as the connections between emotions, thoughts, and memories. We have also explored the origin of emotions and our ability to modulate them and their effect on our overall mood. https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book Unravel...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What are you thinking?

November 06, 2023 21:37 - 24 minutes - 30.6 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What are you thinking? What do you notice when you pay attention to your thoughts? In this practice we explored the nature of the thoughts we notice in our field of awareness. We paid attention to how our thoughts manifest, we also noticed their fluctuations, their location, their origin. We also explored staying with a thought and trying to bring it to completion. https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to th...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Awareness and its content

November 02, 2023 16:43 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Awareness and its content Are there differences between awareness and its content? In this practice we alternated between noticing the content of awareness through your perception of sensations in your body and focusing on awareness itself, your ability to witness.  Although simple this is a very useful and powerful skill because it enables you to be present and to notice the always changing content of awareness. If the content of your awareness keeps changing all...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: One Goal

October 23, 2023 23:01 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: One goal Is it possible to have only one goal in life? Why one goal? the simpler our goal, the easier it will be to assess if we are moving in that direction or if we are off track. What happens when we enhance the quality of our participation in our lives? How do our actions contribute to enhancing the quality of life wherever we are? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the  book Unravel the Thread by ...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Second fundamental need

October 02, 2023 04:12 - 9 minutes - 14 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Second Fundamental Need How important are your relationships? Our second fundamental need, the need for meaningful connections. Are your beliefs about the world influencing your ability to relate to others? IS it helpful to have other people along your journey? What do others contribute to your life: love, friendship, support, guidance, challenge, inspiration? What happens when you have nobody to share your life with? How are you cultivating meaningful relationshi...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: First fundamental need

September 25, 2023 04:12 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: First fundamental need How do you express your uniqueness? Is authenticity affiliating with a particular set of beliefs? Have you consciously participated in the creation of those beliefs? What do you do when you discover that one of those beliefs no longer fits your experiences? Do you believe that there is a specific self within you? Does that self change, or does it always remain the same? Is it possible to recognize that you have always been a unique expressio...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Two Needs and One Goal

September 18, 2023 04:02 - 14 minutes - 14.4 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Two needs and one goal What are your fundamental needs? and What is your life's goal?  Each one of us is unique. And our first fundamental need is to feel that uniqueness and to express it. Our second fundamental need: We need to connect with other people in a meaningful way. The most important goal is to be present by embodying awareness wherever we are. If you had to choose only one goal for your life, what would you choose? https://simple-yoga.org  This con...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Yoga, Conscience and tendencies

September 11, 2023 04:12 - 14 minutes - 20.8 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Yoga, Conscience and Tendencies Living with wisdom is living with awareness Yoga is a call to action. Yoga is awareness. Yoga is being aware of your tendencies. Yoga is awareness of your relationships. What happens when you try to live with conscious awareness? What are the tendencies that you discover in your body, your posture, and your movements? Which tendencies do you notice in your mind and ways of thinking? What tendencies are you aware of in your ways of f...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: The gift of time

September 04, 2023 04:12 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: The Gift of time Are you taking time to explore your relationship with yourself?  Giving yourself time is an essential skill for engaging in meaningful projects and for establishing meaningful relationships with yourself, with others, and with the world around you. What is the relationship you have with time? Do you feel like you have enough time or that you have to be running from one place to another?  What's important enough for you to devote time and attentio...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Open mind and heart

August 28, 2023 04:12 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Open mind and heart Is it possible that opening your heart and mind might offer you a portal to awareness? Are there obstacles preventing you from showing up to each moment with an open mind and an open heart? What assumptions color your mind? What predispositions color your emotions? What is the relationship between your mind and heart, does your open heart automatically invite your mind to open or is it the other way around? What would it take for you to inv...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What do you want?

August 21, 2023 04:12 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What do you want? Is there a difference between what you want and what you think you want? Without desire, there is no motivation to do anything. Desire is a meaningful and heartfelt aspiration, carrying with it the spark of energy to move you toward what you find meaningful and inspirational. Invite yourself to investigate your desires. Create your own meaningful affirmation.  If you repeat your chosen affirmation regularly, does it have any effect on your attitu...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Results Success and Guidelines

August 14, 2023 04:12 - 10 minutes - 15 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Results, success and guidelines Do you feel healthier, happier and more energetic? Two approaches, exercises to connect with the ability to be present and improving our understanding of our mental processes. You know your yoga practice is working because your life experience is improving. Am I noticing a tendency to participate more actively in my life instead of endlessly entertaining myself with my opinions and self-talk? The fact that you are alive means that y...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Feeling Practice

August 07, 2023 04:12 - 21 minutes - 28.7 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Feeling Practice What do you feel and how do you feel it? Are there any places in your body drawing your attention? Is it possible that resting your attention on some area causes a change in the sensations themselves? What happens when you remain curious to find out how a sensation is unfolding? Might it be possible that the whole point of the sensation or emotion is to highlight your ability to be conscious of it and to experience it directly, even when it is not...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Feeling

July 31, 2023 04:12 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MB

Weaving the thread of the Yoga Sutra: Feel How do you tdeal with your feelings, sensations and emotions? Do you choose to ignore what you feel? Do you prefer to distract yourself when there are uncomfortable thoughts or sensations? Do you resist feeling? Do you try to manipulate the world so that you are not exposed to any sensations, emotions or feelings that you do not like? What would happen if we understood that our body, senses, mind, and emotions are all gifts enabling us to ex...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Validate - being with what is

July 24, 2023 04:12 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Validate - being with what is Make a conscious choice to acknowledge that your experience is valid Recognize that the experience you are having is valid simply because it is happening to you. To validate is to make a conscious choice to acknowledge that your experience is valid, even if what you are experiencing is anxiety, fear, or happiness. You validate by acknowledging that you are unique and that you have something unique to offer to the world. What happens w...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Are you a follower?

May 08, 2023 20:18 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Are you a follower? Would you rather follow a teacher or a teaching? Part of the learning process involves recognizing if the teacher is trustworthy and well-intentioned. The other part is testing the teaching to ensure that it is applicable and useful for us at the time. By paying attention to the teacher, their actions and the coherence between their actions and their words, we will probably learn some important lessons, some to be emulated and some as warnings ...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Learning to learn

May 01, 2023 04:12 - 10 minutes - 15.4 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Learning to learn The essence of learning is tolerable discomfort. All learning will, by definition, help us transcend our current views and understanding, and thus, in the process we are going to feel uncomfortable. The better we are at managing this discomfort the more effective our learning and the more likely it is that we will continue learning for the rest of our lives.  https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali acc...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What do I know?

April 24, 2023 04:12 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What do I know? Is it possible that what you know leads you to a sense of unity and integration? What do I know? How do I know what I know? Is what I know the result of my direct experience? Is it possible that my knowledge is colored by one of the five afflictions, my sense of identity, my likes, my dislikes, and my desire to keep my identity alive? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of PAtanjali according to the  book Unravel...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Pause and relax

April 17, 2023 10:59 - 15 minutes - 18.8 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Pause and relax Pausing is a way of creating space for presence Pause to redirect your attention to your senses. Connect to the direct experience of the present moment by feeling what is happening. As you pause and feel, notice if there is any tension or resistance. Then RELAX. How often do you take time just to be? Does your experience change when you pause, feel and relax? Is your perspective slightly different? https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspi...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Best friend or worst enemy?

April 10, 2023 04:12 - 9 minutes - 11.8 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Best friend or worst enemy? Are you helping or hindering yourself? When you are making choices, would it be useful to pause briefly and ask yourself: "At this moment, am I being my best friend or my worst enemy?" What evidence do you have of being a true friend to yourself? Are your choices and actions supporting your heartfelt intentions and purpose?  https://simple-yoga.org  This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of PAtanjali according to the  book Unrav...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Returning to your true nature

April 03, 2023 04:12 - 14 minutes - 17.2 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Returning to your nature Connecting to your true nature Do you feel supported? Do you feel protected" Do you feel nourished? Do you feel joyful? Are you guided by love and compassion? How do you feel, and how do you participate in your life when you feel supported, protected, nourished, joyful and guided by love and compassion? How do you participate in your life? https://simple-yoga.org  This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amaz...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Essential question

March 27, 2023 04:06 - 9 minutes - 8.84 MB

Weaving the thread of the Yoga Sutra: Essential question How do you answer this question daily? ¿Es el mundo un lugar hostil y peligroso o un lugar amistoso de cooperación e interconexión? ¿Eres consciente de cómo estás respondiendo durante tu día? ¿Es posible que tus respuestas estén influyendo en tu percepción, decisiones y acciones? ¿Qué evidencia directa está informando tus respuestas? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Am...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Awake - Most important moment

March 06, 2023 05:12 - 9 minutes - 12.2 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Awakening What is the most important moment of your life? Do you want to wake up? Yoga is a practice of returning again and again to being preseent in the moment we are in. Is it possible to free ourselves of our beliefs and opinions? Awakening is realizing that each moment is unique and irrepetible. What happens when you try to see this moment as the most important moment of your life? https://simple-yoga.org  This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thre...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What is your true nature?

February 27, 2023 05:12 - 15 minutes - 18.1 MB

Weaving the thread of the Yoga Sutra: What is my true nature? Yoga is exploring who you are through posture, breath, thinking and feeling What happens when you are relaxed? Are there ways of being distracting you from just being with what is? If there are ways of being that can be turned on and off, are they essential? What is left when those ways of being are turned off? Does that even happen, ever? Where are all those ways of being manifesting?  https://simple-yoga.org  This is an ...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Who do you think you are?

February 20, 2023 05:52 - 8 minutes - 8.28 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Who do you think you are? Reflection on your identity How do you describe yourself? What do you identify with? To what extent do your labels define you or influence what you think you can and cannot do? Are these labels at your service or are you at the service of these labels? https://simple-yoga.org  This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/  Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the...

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Attitude & Curiosity

February 13, 2023 05:09 - 6 minutes - 7.39 MB

Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Attitude and curiosity What do you discover when you examine your attitude? What influences your attitude? How well can you modulate your attitude? What ignites your curiosity? It is essential that you make your own choices instead of letting others decide things for you. https://simple-yoga.org  This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/  Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thre...

Weaving Yoga Sutras into life: Improvising and experimenting

February 06, 2023 05:09 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MB

Weaving the thread of the yoga sutras:Improvising and experimenting Everybody is improvising all the time Would it be helpful to thing about your life as an experiment? Yogic framework: Open mind, Regulate prejudices, Use direct experience, Let go of whatever pulls you away from presence. Could this yogic framework enhance your current framework? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ ...

Weaving the thread of the Yoga Sutras: Presence

January 30, 2023 05:38 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Presence What does it feel to be me right now? What is the overall feeling of being myself? Is there a general feeling to this experience? Or a general attitude? Rather than rushing to answer these questions, can you savor them? Can you live with them for a while?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-...

Yoga Sutra - Weaving the thread of yoga into life

January 23, 2023 13:40 - 10 minutes - 9.68 MB

Weaving the thread of yoga into life Y.O.G.A. S.I.M.P.L.E. What distracts me from being fully present in the moment that I am right now? Is it possible for me to modulate those distractions?  What is the origin of these distractors? Is it from my beliefs, my preferences, my memories, my dreams?   Could I just keep returning patiently to giving my full attention to what I am doing right now? What obstacles do i find as i try this? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from ...

Yoga Sutra Summary of Chapter Four Emancipation

January 16, 2023 05:12 - 6 minutes - 5.86 MB

Yoga Sutra Summary of Chapter 4 Complete absorption in the service of the everchanging lifeflow Do you still identify with the changing phenomena of life? Are there any obstacles keeping you from being at the service of life itself? Is it possible to reflect pure consciousness without distortion? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thre...

Yoga Sutra 4.34 The power of presence

January 09, 2023 05:50 - 8 minutes - 8.71 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.34 The power of presence Free from the flow of causality, time and experiences Living with heart and mind open. What is my relationship to the flow of causality? How do I relate to time? What is my perspective on the experiences that I participate in? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202 / Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-y...

Yoga Sutra 4.33 The illusion of time ceases

January 02, 2023 05:12 - 6 minutes - 6.75 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.33 The illusion of time ceases Noticing the imperceptible succession from one instant to the next Changes in properties, characteristics and stage are clear and their connection to the notion of time becomes obvious. Yogis step outside of the cicle of time, abiding in the endless present moment. https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unrave...

Yoga Sutra 4.32 Gunas in balance and inactivity

December 26, 2022 05:41 - 6 minutes - 8.21 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.32 Gunas in balance and inactivity The practitioner steps outside of the ciclo of cause and efect The natural tendencies toward change cease for the practitioner. Presence without generating karma. To what extent are you in alignment with presence? Can you notice if you are generating karma? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-th...

Yoga Sutra 4.31 Endless wisdom arises

December 19, 2022 05:33 - 6 minutes - 7.51 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.31 Endless wisdom arises Freedom from ignorance and impurities Harmony through wisdom. Wisdom as embodied pure common sense. How are you participating in every moment? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904 Barnes and Noble https:...

Yoga Sutra 4.29 & 4.30 The greatest harmony: Selfless service without impurities

December 12, 2022 05:21 - 8 minutes - 8.94 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.29 & 4.30 The greatest harmony: Selfless service without impurities Absorbed in serving the changing flow of life This highest kind of integration is known as the integrated cloud of virtue or the integrated cloud of characteristics (dharma megha samadhi). The mind is completely open and so is the heart. There is no accumulation of new impressions related to an individual sense of identity. https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread avail...

Yoga Sutra 4.27 and 4.28 Latent impressions and their removal

December 05, 2022 05:39 - 7 minutes - 8.05 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.27 & 4.28 Latent impressions and their removal What are the impressions that still cause reactivity for you? Are there still some subtle sources of agitation, reactivity, and drama? How do you keep returning to presence? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-...

Yoga Sutra 4.26 Gravitating toward liberation

November 28, 2022 05:06 - 5 minutes - 6.07 MB

Yoga Sutra 4.26 Gravitating toward liberation Freedom from the sense of identity Are there any attachments holding you back? What ideas limit your perspective? What notions limit your actions? Is there still some reactivity? Would it be possible to feel at one with all of existence? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the...