The kośas represent the interconnection of mind, body, emotion, thought, and stillness—aspects of human experience that cannot ultimately be separated from one another.

Furthermore, since perception, breath, and body are always breaking up, and continually fluctuate together, we cannot pin our stories of reality on any of them.

Freedom is always “freedom from.” Enlightenment is a movement in which we free ourselves from what obstructs and entraps us.

change and flux of life, without clinging and its consequent stress.

Patañjali calls this saṁyoga, or the misapprehension of an experience in context with a fresh experience that has no context. Again, context is not “built in to experience.”

yoga posture is an opportunity to “sit with”

kośa theory focuses on the arrangement of and relations between the parts, which connect them into a whole. In the Vedas, the relationships between the kośas are not just considered in terms of layers but are also thought of as food for one another. The kośas nourish one another.

Yoga practice is about expanding and strengthening circuits in the mind-body that are less frequently used, and repatterning those that are inefficient.

which finds rest in earth full of the essence of food, that is the sheath made of food, annamaya koś