Unravel The Thread: Living The Yoga Sutra Today

Engaging in negativity and violence plants the seeds for future experiences that will be colored by suffering. How are your different systems affected by negativity? What ahppens when you turn around violent thoughts toward more uplifting and inspiring ones? https://simple-yoga.org  

What happens when you choose uplifting and helpful ways of being? By letting go of the pattern again and again, with gentle and patient persistence, you are developing a new, more helpful and uplifting pattern. https://simple-yoga.org  

Do you have complete command of your own body, mind, or emotions? What are the chances that you may be able to control the world outside of you? How do you respond to what cannot be changed or controlled? https://simple-yoga.org

Wisdom, understood as pure common sense, is instrumental to your most important duty: your wholehearted and open-minded participation in life’s perfection. How do your tendencies influence the quality of your life? https://simple-yoga.org  

Tapas is the fire that helps us overcome our tendency to predict and to assume that we already know what will happen. Tapas is also the heat resulting from the friction or going against the grain of our habits. Concntration, another meaning of tapas, is necessary to notice if your habits are useful or harmful. https://simple-yoga.org  

What conditions are you putting on yourself, your life and others? What do you need in order to feel happy? Can the practice of gratitude open a door to contentment? https://simple-yoga.org

Niyamas: Clarity (shaucha), Contentment (santosha), Enthusiasm (tapas), Wisdom (svadhyaya) and Humility (ishvara pranidhana) Are there any sensations, thoughts and emotions that indicate you are aligning with purity in your choices, actions and interactions? When you pay attention to the results of your actions is there anything in the results indicating the purity of your motivation? https://simple-yoga.org  

How much do I really need? To what extent does what I have contribute to enhance the quality of my life? What level of maintenance do my possessions require? Do I own what I have or does what I have own me? To what extent am I cultivating simplicity in my life? https://simple-yoga.org  

Brahmacharya is an invitation to become one with the life force all around you. How am I cultivating life affirming thoughts, attitudes, actions and interactions? Are you awake to the miracle of life in everything that surrounds you? https://simple-yoga.org

What are the differences between what you want, expect and need? How do you know the difference? How do these ideas relate to the notion of fairness and generosity? How you contribute to affirm life and how you strengthen the connections among all beings, from the most minuscule to the largest? https://simple-yoga.org  

Satya is being whole in your thoughts, intentions, movements, words, actions and interactions. ¿Cuál es tu verdadera naturaleza? ¿Cómo honras tu verdadera naturaleza en tus pensamientos, palabras, acciones e interacciones? ¿Qué tipo de actividades son más propicias para conectarte con tu integridad en mente, corazón y cuerpo? https://simple-yoga.org  

Love, Integrity, Fairness and Generosity, Curiosity and Reverence for Life, Abundance and Simplicity. A great universal vow to appreciate and honor the interdependent nature of life in all forms and manifestations. Every tiny step towards applying the yamas, creates the opportunity to see yourself and the world around you in a new light and through a different lens. https://simple-yoga.org    

Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi what does your practice consist of? Which limbs of yoga do you prefer to practice? Why? Does your current practice create a balance between body, mind and emotions? How is your practice contributing to the quality of your participation in your life? https://simple-yoga.org  

Yoga removes impurities, increases wisdom and establishes discriminative awareness Are inefficiencies in your attitudes, posture, movements, breathing, thinking, feeling and interacting? Are there any signs that you are growing in clarity and wisdom? https://simple-yoga.org  

Notice suffering. Identify causes of suffering. Reduce distractions. Internal climate of clarity. Everything leads to liberation. Disinterest in manipulating the forces of nature. Effortless harmony. https://simple-yoga.org  

Noticing the fundamental difference between being and doing The person established in discriminative awareness recognizes the fundamental difference between living in harmony with the perfection of life on the one hand, and living in the stories in his head, on the other. Can you set your intention to abide in awareness? https://simple-yoga.org

Yoga Sutra 2.25 Freedom by removing confusion The relationship between consciousness, experiences and awareness In your daily activities, do you tend to identify more with your sensations or with your ability to witness? Are your ways of moving and breathing liberating or restrictive? Are your interactions informed by your awareness or by your experiences? https://simple-yoga.org  

Yoga Sutra 2.24 Identifying with experiences is confusion How do you clarify the difference between your experiences and your awareness? When you believe that you are your experiences, your stories and your body you live in confusing leading you to a never-ending cycle of suffering and afflictions. https://simple-yoga.org  

Awareness and experiences come together to clarify the distinction between what is enduring and what is temporary. How do you decide what is worth your attention, time and energy? What in you is permanent? What in you is impermanent? https://simple-yoga.org

What is the relationship between world, experiences and awareness? What is the role of your experiences? How do you participate in the world? What is your relationship to what you experiences? Who is experiencing? https://simple-yoga.org