Tag: spirituality
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Practice and Purpose: The Universal Appeal of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra’s
The Yoga Sutras, 325 CE, contain 195 aphorisms distilling wisdom from earlier writings such as the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and other sources. The work is presented in four chapters or pada: “part,” “a step,” from pad, “a foot,” suggesting “foundation.” What is yoga? For Pantajali, “yoga is stopping the turning of thinking” or a way…
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Moving Toward the Light
What is Yoga? We, as the souls within a human body, have been given a gift and task in our lifetime. The gift is the beauty of this world. This includes the natural world, the cosmos, the inner world, our minds, and our relationships with other souls. We have the ability to experience love, joy,…

