My name is Alex Artymiak, and if I could go tell myself one thing when I was struggling through one of the toughest years of my life, it would be “crisis precipitates evolution.” Here’s why. …
yoga sutras
The fifth and final niyama, ishvara pranidhana, is the queen mother of all the restraints and observances that serve as the roots of yogs.…
More recently, svadhyaya has come to mean "self-reflection." Self-reflection is the thing most of us not only resist, but resist with vigor. Sitting with all our pain and trying to understand it by looking into it can feel like…
The yamas are known as the restraints, while the niyamas are thought of as the observances. The first niyama, saucha, which is often translated as cleanliness or purity, is an interesting one to start with because its interpretations can…
11/1/09 Lecture, Part 1, duration 60 minutes [videojs mp4=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/yogaglovideo/berg-crf26-s848x480-2009111611-1-fspass2.mp4″] The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is perhaps the seminal work on the meaning and purpose of Yoga. The study of this text is not simply an academic curiosity, but a…