True Yoga: Practicing With the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment

Next time you feel angry and want to shout, regulate your voice to speak softly and notice the difference you feel as a result.

practicing simplicity, I make room for what matters most. The purest things bring the most joy. My life becomes happier and less complicated as I practice simplicity. When I choose simplicity I expand creatively. Simplicity reveals true purpose.

The most important elements of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Buddha’s teachings, and the Bhagavad Gita were compiled by Sri Patanjali around two thousand years ago into the text we now refer to as the Yoga Sutras. This is the key text of Raja (Royal) Yoga, which describes the complete yoga path, a scientifically organized spiritual technology for

Dharana is concentration or focus. It is training the mind to the single-pointed attention needed for meditation.

Other people’s reactions to us will be our gauge. Those who know us help us see our blind spots more clearly.

The ability to differentiate between desires and needs is essential for the aspiring yogi. We can practice limiting desires and appreciating the things we do have as a custodian rather than as an owner so as not to build identification and attachment to material items.

Asana is the practice of right posture to create physical comfort and ease, eliminate restlessness, and prepare the body to be undistracted in meditation.

Fundamentally, the management of our personal energy, both physically and mentally, is one of the best health practices we can employ.

Practicing Saucha means functioning in the complexity of the world while staying connected to and identified with the pure Self within.