In this episode, I share with you the inspiration behind this podcast, Tea with Patanjali, born from a love of the way of tea, Ayurveda and the ever-wonderful and profoundly inspiring Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 

A Sutra is an aphorism and in each of the Sutras of the Yoga Sutras text are key and potent teachings on Yoga. The Sutras teach us:

•  what Yoga is
• the nature of mind and how we  transform it 
• how to truly advance on the path of Yoga,
• the obstacles that stand in our way.
• the causes of suffering
• how to transcend suffering. 

It is a wonderful text and has been referred to as a book of human psychology, with answers for every aspect of the human condition. 

This text is held to be the most important of the Yoga texts. 

Before we delve into it, I take a little time here to explore why and how these refections came to be called "Tea with Patanjali.