Essential reading for teacher trainees
BKS Iyengar: Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, The Holistic Path to Health
Yoga the Iyengar Way by Shyam & Silva Mehta
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (many issues available: try to get translation without commentary or more than one translation to cross reference, […]
This inspiration points the same way as the Sutta One Fortunate Attachment and encourages us to be open to our experiences, the signs and features being our own likes and dislikes and particular emphases and biases. It is part of a comprehensive training path revealed in the Sutta.
‘Come you monk, be guarded as to […]
Two verses (51 and 53) from the The Mahayana Buddhist text
Baring your fangs of the four great opponents,
Devour the foe – our cruel selfish concern!
With your powerful mantra of cherishing others,
Demolish this enemy lurking within!
Batter him, batter him, rip out the heart
Of our grasping for ego, our love for ourselves!
Trample him, trample him, dance […]
This list of books is highly recommended, both for teacher trainees entering the Vajrasati School of Yoga and yogis who would like to extend their experience above and beyond asana class to evolve a more holistic approach to their yoga practice. Bookmark this page as it will be regularly updated for new inspiration.
Yoga Sutras […]
Translation by Sir Edwin Arnold
By passion for the “pairs of opposites,”
By those twain snares of like and dislike , Prince!
All creatures live bewildered, save some few.
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Both practice and non reaction are required to still the patterning of consciousness. Then pure awareness can abide in its very nature. Otherwise, awareness takes itself to be the patterning of consciousness.
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