Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today

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 compassion? How do you participate in your life? https://s...

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 evidencia directa está informando tus respuestas? https:/...

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 try to see this moment as the most important moment...

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 of being are turned off? Does that even happen, ev...

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 the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amaz...

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 book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon htt...

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? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the...

Presence What does it feel to be me right now? What is the overall feeling of being myself? Is there a general feeling to this experience? Or a general attitude? Rather than rushing to answer these questions, can you savor them? Can you live with them for a while?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202...

Weaving the thread of yoga into life Y.O.G.A. S.I.M.P.L.E. What distracts me from being fully present in the moment that I am right now? Is it possible for me to modulate those distractions?  What is the origin of these distractors? Is it from my beliefs, my preferences, my memories, my dreams?   Could I just keep returning patiently to giving my full attention to what I am doing right now? What o...

Yoga Sutra Summary of Chapter 4 Complete absorption in the service of the everchanging lifeflow Do you still identify with the changing phenomena of life? Are there any obstacles keeping you from being at the service of life itself? Is it possible to reflect pure consciousness without distortion? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon http...

Yoga Sutra 4.34 The power of presence Free from the flow of causality, time and experiences Living with heart and mind open. What is my relationship to the flow of causality? How do I relate to time? What is my perspective on the experiences that I participate in? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202...

Yoga Sutra 4.33 The illusion of time ceases Noticing the imperceptible succession from one instant to the next Changes in properties, characteristics and stage are clear and their connection to the notion of time becomes obvious. Yogis step outside of the cicle of time, abiding in the endless present moment. https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at: ...

Yoga Sutra 4.32 Gunas in balance and inactivity The practitioner steps outside of the ciclo of cause and efect The natural tendencies toward change cease for the practitioner. Presence without generating karma. To what extent are you in alignment with presence? Can you notice if you are generating karma? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Ama...

Yoga Sutra 4.31 Endless wisdom arises Freedom from ignorance and impurities Harmony through wisdom. Wisdom as embodied pure common sense. How are you participating in every moment? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-y...

Yoga Sutra 4.29 & 4.30 The greatest harmony: Selfless service without impurities Absorbed in serving the changing flow of life This highest kind of integration is known as the integrated cloud of virtue or the integrated cloud of characteristics (dharma megha samadhi). The mind is completely open and so is the heart. There is no accumulation of new impressions related to an individual sense of ide...

Yoga Sutra 4.27 & 4.28 Latent impressions and their removal What are the impressions that still cause reactivity for you? Are there still some subtle sources of agitation, reactivity, and drama? How do you keep returning to presence? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.co...

Yoga Sutra 4.26 Gravitating toward liberation Freedom from the sense of identity Are there any attachments holding you back? What ideas limit your perspective? What notions limit your actions? Is there still some reactivity? Would it be possible to feel at one with all of existence? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon...

Yoga Sutra 4.25 The individual self dissolves Realizing the distinction between pure awareness and experiences With no wants, no needs and no agendas, the yogi experiences directly the difference between the world of experience and pure awareness. Returning to the natural state of pure awareness. What are the remaining obstacles on your path?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the bo...

Yoga Sutra 4.24 Individual awareness reflects Consciousness without distortion. Individual awareness becomes an open conduit between universal awareness and the world of experience.  Yoga practice decreases the tendencies to misidentify with all external and internal temporary phenomena. Yoga unravels the fabric of the identity woven from the threads of beliefs, opinions, stories, as well as from...

The natural state of individual awareness This is the state of harmonious integration between individual awareness and the world of experience. Your investment in your opinions creates an obstacle to opening your heart and mind. Are you neutral and inclusive or partial and limiting?   Which of these two attitudes is more conducive to enhancing your aliveness? https://simple-yoga.org This is an exc...

Are your ways of being neutralized? What is the nature of the  relationship between your awareness and the world of experiences? How are your assumptions influencing what you perceive? What is the impact of your thoughts on your body and emotions? Can your physical manifestation be a vehicle for conscious awareness to experience the world? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book U...

If it could, it would create an endless succession of observations that would confuse memory Can there be more than one instance of your individual awareness?  Can you feel the sensations in your two hands simultaneously? Can you observe yourself as you attend to the sensations in your hands? What happens when one part of you attend to an external process and another aspect of your awareness tries...

You either focus on experiences or on the universal awareness. What is your intention when you direct your awareness to the world of experience?   What happens?   Do you notice a difference when you focus on aliveness itself?  What happens when you try to focus on both experience and pure aliveness?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon...

Yoga Sutra 4.19 Individual consciousness is neither independent nor autonomous. Individual consciousness can be a translucent window between Consciousness and the world All yoga practices remove obstacles to experiencing the world with absolute clarity. Awareness is accessible only in the present moment. To what extent are your ways of being (including your activities, tendencies, beliefs, and per...

Ways of being are known by Consciousness Experiences make it easy to recognize the fundamental difference between unchanging consciousness and the changing world. The vitality in all of life does not change, but our relationship with that vitality does. Experiences are not intrinsically good or bad. Do you have ways of regulating your connection to your own vitality? https://simple-yoga.org This i...