Join Cory (Ashtanga Yoga Nashville’s founder) for a weekly in-depth exploration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — Sunday’s at 2:00pm CST.
Modern day yoga is often associated with the physical posturing and viewed as a form of exercise, but most anyone who has attended a yoga class and left feeling “good” knows that there is something deeper happening. Often we can’t quite put our finger on what that is, but we know it makes us feel better and may motivate us to keep going. Long term, that won’t be enough to sustain this life-long practice of yoga. Through understanding a bit about why it makes us “feel good” and how it can be engaged more purposely to deepen that potential we are able to turn yoga from something we do a few times a week to stay in shape into a grounding, uplifting, self knowledge generating, intuition building, spirit filled practice that influences all aspects of our lives in a positive way.
This ancient text was compiled some 2000 years ago by a great sage named Patanjali. It serves as the root text for the Yoga School of classical Indian philosophy, of which there are six, and the foundation of the yoga we practice. It draws from and shares parallels with the Samkhya, Vedanta and Buddhist lines of thinking to provide a succinct path for us to overcome the suffering (pain and dissatisfaction) that we inevitably face as human beings — and develop this practice that we may integrate into our lives as a means to positively sustain us and ultimately move us toward spiritual liberation.
Registration for this class will include four Yoga Sutra handouts drawing from well respected sources and thoughtfully put together by Cory specifically for your use. Handouts will be provided one week prior to each session. In addition, you will be provided with an audio recording of the sutras chanted in Sanskrit to accompany the handout. We will focus on first two (plus the first several sutras of pada 3) padas (chapters) of the text in this course.
Participation by Zoom video conference is an option that will be made available. This enables participation live from wherever you are or post viewing of the recorded session.
DATES: Sunday’s Feb 2 to 23 from 2:00 to 3:45 pm
LOCATION: Ashtanga Yoga Nashville or Zoom Video Conference
INVESTMENT: $60.00