Events Platfrom: Yoga

Emotions bind us. We struggle under their grasp, at times to the point of suffocation. How does one learn to manage the constant ebb and flow and storms and upheavals that happen at regular intervals? How does one learn to seek the constant and not be whisked away with the tide? Sri Ramana Maharishi’s Upadesha Saram gives us practical tools for understanding the nature of the mind and methods to resolve into a larger awareness. It shows us how to develop space between ourselves and our thoughts, thereby releasing us from our bondage to sadness.

In this presentation, Teune will take you on a short journey, exploring the hidden clues that can be found in your everyday postural yoga class. Specifically, from a non-academic point of view and from a perspective outside of India. There are breadcrumbs of knowledge everywhere, hidden in plain sight. Simply looking at the denomination of your favorite style of yoga, the names of the poses and the mantras that accompany your sessions, for example, are great starting points. What are — to many of us practitioners — foreign names and words at first, can reveal layers of knowledge once we try to find out more about them. When the yoga enthusiast continues to enquire into the meaning of terms heard in class, a process of inward investigation is started which can expose a refreshing self-view rooted in the Indic Knowledge Systems, universal truth that is liberating and enlightening, revealing our greater reality.

Bhagavad-Gita is a manual of life and shows us the relevance of many words and concepts in our day-to-day life. In the Gita, Lord Krishna has explained the concept of Yoga in a most unique way. The topic of Yoga comes in the Gita in various chapters. In this session, an attempt will be made to combine those instances and try to understand the concept of Yoga, as envisaged by Lord Krishna.

Nilima Bhatji and Rahi Santhanamji will share about the inspiration behind the world’s first ShaktiKumbh being held at Rishikesh from Feb 12 – Mar 5, 2023. The one-of-a-kind Integral Yogini TTC and the theme: Regenerative Renaissance of Mother India. Revitalising Bharata Shakti

Stability and Mobility are two major principles when we practice yoga on the mat and off the mat. This one hour session will help us experience and explore the freedom of physical, pranic and mental mobility when it is built on physical, pranic  and mental stability. 

Explore the power of yoga through chanting, connecting with one of the most widely referenced sources on yogic philosophy. In this one-hour session, we’ll explore Yoga Sūtra 1.12, among others, exploring what is perhaps the greatest truth to be derived from Patañjali, that oneʼs choice to exercise the combination of abhyāsa, practice and vairāgya, non-attachment, is more powerful than any pattern that inhabits citta, the heart-mind-body field. In my teaching, this idea has served as an anchor and a container for learning, one I received through a teaching model created by Vyaas Houston at the American Sanskrit Institute, a model that proved itself steady and reliable during my 14 years of study and teaching there, and showed that these fundamental principles to be infallible. In sūtra 1.12 Patañjali distilled the essence of yoga, which in his age was rooted in an ancient tradition that was time tested. Centuries before the teachings of Yoga were codified Kṛṣṇa assured Arjuna, who had just acknowledged his own doubt about being able to regulate a turbulent mind, that “No doubt, an active mind is hard to control, but by abhyāsa and vairāgya, Arjuna, it is held steady. BG 6.35. Let us come together to steady our minds.

In this session Apoorva will demonstrate how asana and pranayama works as a practice for Dhyanam and the usage of mantras for the same.

This is a practical session.

The journey and awareness of yoga from Kerala to Kashmir, with a message of how important yoga practice is. The world is moving into a very unhealthy lifestyle and dealing with depression and disorders due to bad food habits, development nurturing and unhealthy competition. In this session Agrima will discuss why it is important to educate children and youngsters and older people about the practice of yoga, and how yogic practices and philosophy changes our minds and lives.

The first question most students ask about Yoga and its related wisdom is “what is a ‘path’ and how do I follow it?” This is a question that comes up often even for more experienced students. The answer is one that needs constant reaffirming and inspiration given the distractible nature of our minds. Yet, the answer is quite simple: the path is the Truth, Unity, Freedom, and Self Awareness. The Truth is discovered in part by what percentage of your lifestyle and devotion you focus on each day. How much of yourself do you dedicate to inquiry of the higher, more integral truth. Unity is remembered by way of compassion and service. Freedom is experienced by way of non-attachment of the ego to sense objects. Self Awareness is the expansion of your inner perception toward the eternal nature of the soul rather than the temporary nature of the body. How do we accomplish this? Join Swamini for an inspirational talk of the 10 integral steps on the spiritual path of Yoga.