Unravel The Thread: Living the Yoga Sutra today
Can the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali be applied today? Sutra means thread. Yoga Sutra is the thread of yoga. Most interpretations of the Yoga Sutra are complex and hard to understand. After investing more than 12 years studying, chanting and teaching the Yoga Sutras, Ruben Vasquez guides you on a journey exploring the wisdom of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. This ancient wisdom is relevant and applicable for yoga students and teachers today. Besides clear explanations and examples, each episode offers useful questions to reconnect to your natural clarity and harmony. Unravel the Thread is an invitation to be joyfully present in your life. simpleyoga.substack.com
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I hope you find these ideas useful to keep returning to presence without strain, struggle or self-judgment.
Peace and health,
rubén
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A simple way to establish a connection between our body, our breath and our body.
I hope that you enjoy it.
Peace and health,
rubén
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In SIMPLE YOGA, we understand range of motion as the potential range of healthy movement available, including the minimum as well as the maximum amount of movement. Moreover, because this particular perspective on yoga emphasizes the importance of acting with awareness, the notion of Range of Motion is expanded to mean the totality of potential range of healthy movement that we can consciously do.
Furthermore, to ensure that our yog...
An invitation to cultivate the ability to relax. An important practice to become really good at. Relaxation, beyond stress reduction, is important for our health. It is also the basis for meditation.
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In our busy lives, there never seems to be enough time to pause because there is always something demanding our attention. In addition, our technology seems to invite us to engage with an endless stream of notifications, messages, and updates. It seems that we are training, consciously or unconsciously, to keep our attention jumping from one idea to another, from one task to another. For example, there is more information available...
Y.O.G.A.
As we embark on this journey, it is useful to define what we are doing. There are innumerable definitions of yoga. And there are so many expressions of yoga that it can be confusing to know what a person means when they say they are practicing yoga. One way to interpret Patañjali's definition of yoga in The Yoga Sutra is that yoga is our ability to modulate our ways of being, which include all of our physical, mental, emoti...
I have been studying, practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years because it works. For me, yoga is the most complete and effective system for cultivating presence and living a meaningful life. (I am aware that there are other systems out there, but yoga is the one that has worked best for me). Experiencing the benefits of yoga personally is what inspires, motivates and energizes me to dedicate my life to making yoga available f...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, Summary and application (part 6)
How to apply the integral definition of yoga
What stimulates your appetites?
How do you satisfy your appetites? How do you feel as a result?
Is there a balance between your appetites and your elimination?
What are some effective ways to quiet your mind?
Are your movements deliberate or are they mechanical?
How do you regulate the intensity o...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, compassionate interaction (part 5)
Can the way I interact with others reflect or influence my health?
How do I interact? …With myself? …With the people around me? …With family and friends? …With acquaintances and strangers? …With other sentient beings? …With my surroundings? …With the world at large? Is it possible that offering a disinterested helping hand to others can have beneficial effects on bo...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, calm mind, cheerful attitude (part four)
Does having a calm mind and a cheerful attitude contribute to your state of health?
What is the state of your mind? Is it possible to modulate the state of your mind?
What is your general attitude? Can you modulate your emotions? How does yoga affect your state of mind and attitude? Is there a relationship between a calm mind and a happy attitude? What i...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra:Health, optimal posture and graceful movement (part 3)
How are your posture and movements?
What are the reasons we have for practicing yoga postures and movements?
Is our optimal posture likely to be influenced by our personal history, context, circumstances, needs and activities? According to the Yoga Sutras there are four components to the practice of yoga postures, including a combination of steadines...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, appetites and elimination (part 2)
Is it possible to integrate adequate appetites and efficient elimination?
What are the appetites that you have at the physical, mental and emotional levels? Are our different types of appetites interrelated? What influences our appetites? Is there a difference between needs and wants? How does our elimination relate to our appetites? Do we eliminate what is no long...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What is health?
A definition of health and its relation to Patanjali's eight limbs of Yoga
How do you define health?
How does your definition of health guide you through your daily activities?
A comprehensive definition of health that broadens our awareness of health by including the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of our being.
Are all aspects of your being in equilibrium?
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Could this be your best moment?
Would you trade places with an earlier you?
Is your level of awareness greater than it was before? It may be useful to recognize that right now you are the oldest you have ever been, with more experience and wisdom than you ever had before. At the same time, right now you are the youngest you will ever be. Could this be your best moment?
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Choosing to be happy
What is my perspective on the world? And how does it influence my ways of perceiving and being in the world?
When I follow my natural tendency to move toward feeling better and away from feeling pain, does my awareness increase?
Am I trying to manipulate the world to fit my expectations? Is this making me happy or unhappy?
Wanting the world to please our changing desires, ...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: A mantra for presence
Our words influence our thoughts and perspective.
What words do you use frequently? Are those words useful to be present or are they potential distractors?
What happens when we replace our tendencies to predict and worry with the mantra Let's see?
This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the book Unravel the Thread by Rube...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Sensitivity and feedback
Are you noticing changes in your sensitivity?
Do you play internal games to override the common sense feedback you receive? Which do you trust more, the feedback sensitivity loop or your inner tendencies? What happens when you follow your sensitivity? What happens when you follow your tendencies? Do you recognize any of these tendencies in yourself? What are the tendencies you recogn...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Distractions
The most important skill to cultivate
Distractions will happen, sooner or later, either a few times or countless times. Even when we get distracted , noticing that we got distracted indicates that we are present and that we are aware that our attention moved away from our intended focal point. What is important is to keep returning to our focus, to this moment. And, returning without struggle, e...
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness - Open awareness
Open Awareness is the experience of being open to whatever each moment brings
Would it be useful to grow in our ability to modulate our awareness so that we can choose to focus on an idea or object or just be in open awareness?
What happens if you try this exercise several times? What do you notice?
Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of awareness - Concentration
What does it feel like when our mind focuses on just one thing?
Exploring the range of awareness by focusing our mind on a single object of concentration. When we try to concentrate on a single thing, most of us find that our minds are easily distracted. This exercise strengthens our ability to concentrate. This ability only becomes stronger if we keep returning to our chos...
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