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Decoding The Self: Three Sutras Of Patanjali
With John WeddepohlIn Patanjali's foundational teachings, the first three sutras serve as a gateway to understanding the essence of not just yoga but being human and go beyond its physical aspects to reveal our human secret. In this course what we find out is, not about yoga at all, the sutras are all about the Self because the Self is the yoga itself. Before you start talking about yoga you already are the yoga itself. In these accessible talks we’ll focus on: The fundamental aspect of yoga as a tool for self-inquiry. Seeing that Yoga is not solely about physical practices but a profound exploration of one’s true nature Grasping the essence embedded in the three sutras, connecting the dots, and understanding the spiritual and vast philosophical dimensions of yoga. Simplifying the learning process. Gaining a clear and concise understanding of the core philosophical principles, no matter what your level of study this course will break the sutras down into simple easy to easy-to-understand principles. Focusing specifically on these first sutras from the Samadhi Pada. The chapter on integration offers a unique perspective compared to broader Yoga Sutra courses. Each class finishes with a short contemplative meditation to integrate what has been explored in the session. Be prepared to have your view of yoga and yourSelf completely transformed. This is not a dry philosophical exposition rather it’s a deep dive into the wonder and mystery of your humanity and the opportunity to ask the biggest questions and have them answered
Before Patanjali wrote his sutras, Yoga already existed; find out the source of all yoga.
About this course
In Patanjali's foundational teachings, the first three sutras serve as a gateway to understanding the essence of not just yoga but being human and go beyond its physical aspects to reveal our human secret. In this course what we find out is, not about yoga at all, the sutras are all about the Self because the Self is the yoga itself. Before you start talking about yoga you already are the yoga itself. In these accessible talks we’ll focus on: The fundamental aspect of yoga as a tool for self-inquiry. Seeing that Yoga is not solely about physical practices but a profound exploration of one’s true nature Grasping the essence embedded in the three sutras, connecting the dots, and understanding the spiritual and vast philosophical dimensions of yoga. Simplifying the learning process. Gaining a clear and concise understanding of the core philosophical principles, no matter what your level of study this course will break the sutras down into simple easy to easy-to-understand principles. Focusing specifically on these first sutras from the Samadhi Pada. The chapter on integration offers a unique perspective compared to broader Yoga Sutra courses. Each class finishes with a short contemplative meditation to integrate what has been explored in the session. Be prepared to have your view of yoga and yourSelf completely transformed. This is not a dry philosophical exposition rather it’s a deep dive into the wonder and mystery of your humanity and the opportunity to ask the biggest questions and have them answered
Meet your Teacher
John Weddepohl has dedicated his life to the teachings of Atma Vidya - Self-knowledge. Studying in India in the lineage of Adi Shankara for over 7 years, mandated by his teachers to share the oldest teachings of humankind, John has been sharing Self-knowledge, the wisdom teaching of the Veda/Upanishads in the West ever since. In 1969 John took to yoga like a fish to water. Meeting yoga and his first teacher at nineteen, tasked with teaching and leading the meditation within ten days, it was like he’d never stopped. Besides a brief time as a family householder, it is all he has been doing ever since. Now, teaching globally, John is the primary teacher of Self-knowledge in English in the West. The teaching of the Self is the oldest, rarest, most sacred teaching of humankind and the Vedas. Taught only in Sanskrit; a password or code language of the Vedas, modern revivalists after translating the teaching into English, are making it accessible in the West for the first time. Rare it is to question existence. Rarer still is to find a teacher and have those questions answered. Finding out the answer is none other than oneself, in Self-knowledge, Atma Vidya, we explore the secret of the universe and get the Grand Prize. Once we have gained the knowledge of ourselves, knowledge of the knower,, we have reached the end of knowledge - Vedanta. No longer feeling like a missing piece in the universe, our life becomes a grand revelry, reveling and basking in the glory of nothing but oneself.