Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

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 components to the practice of yoga postures, including a combination of steadiness and comfort, effortlessness, and focus on infinity. What are the qualities of posture that would make certain postures optimal for you at this time in your life? What are the qualities that contribute to your movements being graceful at this time in your life? Can our ways of acting constitute a form of movement? 

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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 wants? How does our elimination relate to our appetites? Do we eliminate what is no longer useful or do we hold on to it? Which ideas in the Yoga Sutras help us modulate our appetites and elimination? What symptoms indicate to you that your appetites and elimination are in balance? Is it possible that when our appetites and elimination are balanced and integrated, they may not require much attention at all?

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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 dimensions of our being. Are all aspects of your being in equilibrium?

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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 will ever be. Could this be your best moment?

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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 me happy or unhappy? Wanting the world to please our changing desires, opinions and beliefs guarantees that we will never be happy.

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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?

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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 you recognize any of these tendencies in yourself? What are the tendencies you recognize in the society in which you live?

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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 is to keep returning to our focus, to this moment. And, returning without struggle, effort, or self-judgment and with a gentle smile.

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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 you notice?

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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 ability to concentrate. This ability only becomes stronger if we keep returning to our chosen focus. What would happen if you tried this practice for a few days? What would you notice? Would it become easier to focus? 

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