Jaya Yoga East Brooklyn, October 24, 2015 – Intro to chapter 2 for teacher trainees. We chant and discuss the first sixteen sutras, understanding sadhana, practice, and the kleshas and conflicts that inhibit us from Yoga Mind.

Jaya Yoga East Brooklyn, October 24, 2015 – Intro to chapter 1 for teacher traineesAn overview of the yoga sutras, their place and importance for yoga students. Beginning with chanting and discussion of the first fifteen sutras, and ending with a Q & A.

Jivamukti NYC, October 21, 2015. Learning to blend vowels to create guna and vrddhi. At the beginning of class, I describe blending of vowel sounds to create guna and vrddhi sounds, or guna and vrddhi transitions. Throughout our chanting, I refer to these when applicable.

Jivamukti Yoga NYC, August 20, 2015

Some talk about my Guruji Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. A question - aren't all vrtti a conflict for the sadhaka?

Jivamukti, NYC. August 5, 2015

How does knowledge condition and then limit the mind? Let's use the mind to understand the mind

Jivamukti, NYC July 22. 2015. Chanting the Yoga Sutras in call and response with discussion.A conversation with our group. I ask them to translate the key sanskrit terms.

Jivamukti Yoga, NYC July 29. Chanting the Yoga Sutras in call and response with discussion.Speaking on Ishvara in the context of the historical sutra. We also review the opening chant, which begins "Vande Gurunam."

July 10, 2015, Living Ashtanga Yoga Retreat, Stowe, Vermont. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois spoke often about the ashtanga yoga method, which has three supports: Tristhanam. His emphasis in teaching led classes (as opposed to Mysore style classes) was to highlight Tristhanam and Vinyasa. Before our led class in Stowe, Vermont, I shared these insights on Guruji's teachings.

Jivamukti Yoga, NYC July 8. Chanting the Yoga Sutras in call and response with discussion. Understanding Isvara and later on in our talk, how raga stains the mind.

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Jivamukti NYC. July 1, 2015. We begin chanting the first sutras of the first chapter with a short discussion on pronunciation (sandhi). Our discussion culminates with the understanding that the twofold technique of abhyasya and vairagya create the momentum of nirodhah.

And we call this yoga.