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

Forward-bending postures open the back, enhance elimination and digestion, and calm the nervous system. Asymmetric or lateral bending postures address unevenness in the body and tightness in the back, shoulders, and pelvic girdle. Twists liberate tension in the spine and release vital energy. They assist digestion and metabolism. Inversions strengt

Our lasting happiness is measurable by the sustained inner peace we feel and our ability to remain grateful and even-minded regardless of external circumstances. Then we are true yogis.

Sad but true, humans rarely leave their comfort zone unless shaken from it.

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

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.

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

Our biography lives in our biology. The physical body registers emotional experiences.

Let us be clear. Choosing to be content no matter what does not mean being unresponsive. It just means that we relinquish all expectations that things will be different than they are, and at the same time be willing to work for positive change with non-attachment.

Self-Control (Brahmacharya): Moderation Increases Energy Dedicated to self-control, great energy is gained. Sutra ii.38