If you’re ready to apply yoga philosophy to your own life—or teach it with clarity and feeling—my classes and workshops create space to sharpen your thinking, steady your inner life, and connect your practice to what matters now.
The Yoga Sutras
|
Hi Reader, Enrollment is open for my next live online course, The Yoga Sutras Saturdays and Sundays, February 14-15 / February 12-22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Each class will be recorded: replay links will be emailed to all registrants. Participants can receive 6 hours of CE credit with Yoga Alliance. Tuition: $108 This course is for yoga teachers and serious practitioners. Together, we explore yoga’s foundational philosophy with clarity and depth, connecting its insights to real-life practice, ethics, and personal transformation.
The Yoga Sutras are the most immediate source of traditional yoga wisdom for most yoga teachers and students. Connecting the Sutras' teachings to our lived experiences is how we gain access to the Sutras' transformative potential. The problem: Most contemporary translations and commentaries on the Yoga Sutras either interpret the Sutras through a modern lens that bypasses the traditional understanding or bend the Sutras' to support ideas about self-realization that contradict the self-evident meaning of the Sutras themselves. And most yoga teacher trainings either don't have the resources to support a thorough exploration of the Sutras or can't dedicate an adequate amount of time to study the Sutras in a truly meaningful way. In this course, we approach the Sutras as a living text—one that speaks directly to modern questions about meaning, agency, responsibility, and freedom. Each live 90-minute session combines clear, structured teaching with open discussion, critical reflection, and space for questions. You’ll be invited to think with the text, not simply memorize it. In four 90-minute sessions, we'll explore:
If you’re looking for a thoughtful, non-dogmatic exploration of the Yoga Sutras that speaks to the realities of modern life, this course is for you. The Yoga Sutras Saturdays and Sundays, February 14-15 / February 12-22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Tuition: $108
Each live 90-minute class will be recorded: the replay will be available anytime so you can revisit the material at your own pace. If you have any questions about this workshop, just reply to this email. Hoping you're having a great week, - Hari-k |
Hari-kirtana das
If you’re ready to apply yoga philosophy to your own life—or teach it with clarity and feeling—my classes and workshops create space to sharpen your thinking, steady your inner life, and connect your practice to what matters now.
Greetings Reader, Next Saturday is “No Kings Day” here in the United States. Again. Technically, every day here is “No Kings Day,” but it's painfully clear that some people need to be reminded that the legitimacy of our government is still supposed to be derived from the consent of the governed. As opposed to being derived from the consent of the spiritually-enlightened intellectuals, which is what the yoga wisdom tradition recommends. It may sound anachronistic, but you can make a reasonable...
Greetings Reader, My younger self never aspired to master the art of cooking. Nor did I ever think it would turn into an enjoyable outlet for creative expression. And yet, here I am, in the kitchen, riffing off a recipe to cook up another culinary masterpiece All right, so, perhaps I'm indulging in a bit of overstatement. Cooking has become a form of meditation for me. Once I'm in the kitchen, my mind locks into the process and stays there until the repast is ready. My meditative orientation...
Greetings Reader, I get a lot of questions from yoga teachers about how to explain karma-yoga — the yoga of liberation through action. And I frequently get asked for advice on how to speak about bhakti-yoga, the yoga of devotion, in yoga classes. Speaking about karma-yoga is challenging because it seems impossible to act in the world without generating some kind of reaction. Speaking about bhakti-yoga can be tricky because yoga is not a religion but bhakti is theistic by definition. But what...