Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

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?

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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 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 feeling?

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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 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 attention to?
Who is important enough in your life to deserve your time?

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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 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 invite yourself to participate in your life with gentle curiosity, gratitude, and enjoyment?
What happens if you see that this day will never come back? 

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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 your desires. Create your own meaningful affirmation.  If you repeat your chosen affirmation regularly, does it have any effect on your attitude, perspective, and motivation?

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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 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 you have successfully navigated all the previous moments of your life.

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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 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 what you would prefer?

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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 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 experience life in its complete richness? Would we be more likely to be open to feeling everything? Could an attitude of curiosity contribute to this openness? 

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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, fear, or happiness. You validate by acknowledging that you are unique and that you have something unique to offer to the world. What happens when you explore uncomfortable memories? Can it help you make peace with your past?

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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 the coherence between their actions and their words, we will probably learn some important lessons, some to be emulated and some as warnings as to what not to do. 

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