Discover your Chakra System.

Have you heard of the chakra’s? You probably have heard the word thrown around, especially if you practice yoga. However, what you might not know is there is nothing woo woo about them, they are actually quite scientific and can be explained using your own anatomy. In this episode I share a bit about the…

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Yoga Sutra 53

Sutra 53   The mind also becomes fit for concentration. This refers to Dharana the sixth limb in Yoga’s 8 limb path. After we have mastered self-control (discipline) through self-study (acknowledgment and repentance), Patanjali and Iyengar say we have more zeal to proceed to samadhi. The Bible says to concentrate on God only. So if…

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Yoga Sutra 55 and the conclusion of Book 2

Sutra 55 Pratyahara results in the absolute control of the sense organs. With God anything is possible. In Book 2 of Patanjali’s teaching, he teaches yoga as how to achieve much of what God is telling us to do. Follow his commandments, stay focused on him, know our shortcomings while not attaching to them or…

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Yoga Sutra 54

Sutra 54   Withdrawing the senses, mind, and consciousness from contact with external objects, and then drawing them inwards toward the seer, is pratyahara. The Bible says nothing about pratyahara. However, it does speak about nonattachment to the flesh and flesh serving things. Jesus tells us not to worry about anything, that God will provide.…

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Yoga Sutra 51

Sutra 51 The fourth type of pranayama transcends the external and internal pranayama and appears effortless and non-deliberate. When balance is formed and there are no restrictions in the breath at all this stage is reached. Patajlai and Iyengar call it seedless pranayama. Here the movement of breath is without volition or effort, and there…

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Yoga Sutra 50

Sutra 50   Pranayama has three movements: prolonged and find inhalation, exhalation, and retention; all regulated with precision according to duration and place. Here Iyengar and Patanjali teach about how the inhalation and exhalation move through the body- both the physical and the spiritual (energetic) sheaths. As we inhale the soul comes in contact with…

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Yoga Sutra 48

Sutra 48 From then on the sadhaka is undisturbed by dualities. The Bible says nothing about asana or practicing anything in order to train our minds and bodies to focus and study him. In this sutra, Iyengar is saying that Patanjali says the point of asana is to put an end to dualities within our…

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Yoga Sutra 47

Sutra 47 Perfection is an asana is achieved when effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. Again the Bible teaches nothing about doing asana. Actually, the Bible is not much of a how-to handbook. It is a relationship book in my opinion. God explains what laws to follow in…

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Yoga Sutra 46

Sutra 46 Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence and benevolence of spirit. This sutra is teaching about asana as a practice to cultivate a strong, clean body, steady mind for focus and spiritual study, and a kind spirit. I found nothing for or against asana practice in the Bible. Iyengar says “the…

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Yoga Sutra 45

Sutra 45 Surrender to God brings perfection in Samadhi. Samadhi is when the yogi no longer is bonded to earthly desires and is always in union with God. The Bible and this one disagree, it is not OUR surrendering that brings us to Samadhi (eternal life with God) but by Gods grace. Ephesians 2 1-10…

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