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  • Mindful Radiance: Adapting the Yoga Sutras to Modern Self-Care

    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a foundational text of yoga philosophy, offers a comprehensive guide to achieving balance, harmony, and peace through the 8-limbs. While primarily designed for spiritual enlightenment, the principles in the sutras can be integrated into everyday self-care practices for beauty. Ultimately, the sutras teach that true beauty emanates from inner balance.…

  • 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…