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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 off ...
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YOKED with Kelly Sunrose is a weekly podcast devoted to sharing the teachings of yoga through stories and conversations with real, live, real-life yogis. Through interviews, lectures and discussions, we share how practice has changed the course of our lives. Thank you so much for listening.
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Welcome to On and Off the Mat with your host Rayneen Thebeau. In these episodes we'll take the ancient practice of yoga from your mat to your every day life to uncover the inner peace, wisdom, and power that resides in within us all.
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, compassionate interaction (part 5) Can the way I interact with others reflect or influence my health? How do I interact? …With myself? …With the people around me? …With family and friends? …With acquaintances and strangers? …With other sentient beings? …With my surroundings? …With the world at large? Is it possible t…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, calm mind, cheerful attitude (part four) Does having a calm mind and a cheerful attitude contribute to your state of health? What is the state of your mind? Is it possible to modulate the state of your mind? What is your general attitude? Can you modulate your emotions? How does yoga affect your state of mind and att…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra:Health, optimal posture and graceful movement (part 3) How are your posture and movements? What are the reasons we have for practicing yoga postures and movements? Is our optimal posture likely to be influenced by our personal history, context, circumstances, needs and activities? According to the Yoga Sutras there are four c…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, appetites and elimination (part 2) Is it possible to integrate adequate appetites and efficient elimination? What are the appetites that you have at the physical, mental and emotional levels? Are our different types of appetites interrelated? What influences our appetites? Is there a difference between needs and want…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What is health? A definition of health and its relation to Patanjali's eight limbs of Yoga How do you define health? How does your definition of health guide you through your daily activities? A comprehensive definition of health that broadens our awareness of health by including the physical, mental, emotional, and social d…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Could this be your best moment? Would you trade places with an earlier you? Is your level of awareness greater than it was before? It may be useful to recognize that right now you are the oldest you have ever been, with more experience and wisdom than you ever had before. At the same time, right now you are the youngest you …
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Choosing to be happy What is my perspective on the world? And how does it influence my ways of perceiving and being in the world? When I follow my natural tendency to move toward feeling better and away from feeling pain, does my awareness increase? Am I trying to manipulate the world to fit my expectations? Is this making m…
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: A mantra for presence Our words influence our thoughts and perspective. What words do you use frequently? Are those words useful to be present or are they potential distractors? What happens when we replace our tendencies to predict and worry with the mantra Let's see? https://simple-yoga.org This content is inspired by the …
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Sensitivity and feedback Are you noticing changes in your sensitivity? Do you play internal games to override the common sense feedback you receive? Which do you trust more, the feedback sensitivity loop or your inner tendencies? What happens when you follow your sensitivity? What happens when you follow your tendencies? Do …
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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 …
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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 y…
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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 abilit…
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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…
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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 …
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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 curi…
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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 tryin…
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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 en…
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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 i…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 d…
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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 …
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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 ef…
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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 thou…
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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 bec…
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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 where…
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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, suppor…
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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 …
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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 embody…
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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 pos…
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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…
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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 mi…
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Welcome to On & Off The Mat with your host Rayneen Thebeau. In these episodes, we'll take the ancient practice of yoga from your mat to your every day life to uncover the inner peace, wisdom and power that resides within us all. ------------ In this episode, Rayneen shares the full circle story of her stepping away from podcasting (amongst many oth…
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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 …
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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 particip…
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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…
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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 f…
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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, …
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 you…
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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 heartf…
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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 compassi…
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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 evidenc…
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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 tr…
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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 …
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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…
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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 b…
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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? h…
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