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Sat 01 Feb 2025

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (UTC+5.5)

The Essential Yoga Practice

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The yoga śāstra offers us a compass, map and user’s guide for the human experience. It also offers us thousands of wonderful yoga techniques.

However, from a certain perspective, the amazing benefits of these techniques are only accessed when the practice is rooted in the foundation principles of the yama-s. The first of the aṣṭāṅga/eight limbs, the yama-s are described by Patañjali in the yoga sūtra as the essential, all times, all places practice.

This session will elucidate why the yama principles are considered the essential practice, how they facilitate and support all other practice methods, and how they provide robust, reliable references to cultivate yogic steadiness amidst the inevitable ups and downs, comings and goings of life.

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James Boag

James Boag has been passionately sharing ‘whole life yoga’ across three continents for the last two decades. Working with sound and song, movement and meditation, story and inquiry, practical philosophy and study of the classic Sanskṛt yoga texts, James’ programs invite nourishment and vitality to all parts of ourselves as we inquire into the reality of being human. With a background in languages and literature, and having lived in several countries, James brings the perennial wisdom of the Indic tradition to vivid life in the context of our world today.