by Gregor Maehle | Jun 9, 2020 | Audio/Video, Yoga Philosophy
This Online Yoga Sutra course consists of 15 lessons with each lesson approximately 60 minutes long. During the LIVE version, questions can be asked. The recorded version is available immediately after each lesson is completed. All videos are available permanently and...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Apr 24, 2020 | Audio/Video, Yoga Philosophy
This is a Vedic chant from the Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa. It is chanted to assist those suffering from ill health or if you yourself are unwell. It draws on the elements, the planets and deities as powers that exist within us and asks for nourishment. This chant is called...
by Gregor Maehle | Sep 6, 2019 | Society/ civilisation, Teaching, Yoga Philosophy
Here an article from me that was published in the August issue of YOGA Magazine https://www.yogamagazine.com/ashtanga-vinyasa-yoga/. I was asked to give an update of my work since the publication of Ashtanga Yoga Practice and Philosophy, whether I had developed any...
by Gregor Maehle | Aug 23, 2019 | Meditation and Samadhi, Society/ civilisation, Yoga Philosophy
Here is a summary of my keynote lecture at this years British Wheel of Yoga Congress in Coventry/ UK, which was published in the summer edition of Spectrum. It explains how the concepts of samadhi and bhakti interdigitate and in the process sums up the the main...
by Gregor Maehle | May 12, 2018 | Yoga Philosophy
The forms of suffering, or afflictions (kleshas), according to Patanjali, are ignorance, egotism, desire, aversion and fear of death. In stanza II.4 he points out that forms of suffering do not just occur in the fully active form but also in the so-called dormant,...
by Gregor Maehle | Apr 13, 2018 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Yoga Philosophy
More on what posture was designed to be. A few weeks back I posted my commentary to Patanjali’s sutras II.46 and II.47, showing how far removed modern yoga has become from it’s original concept. Here now sutra II.48, which deepens the inquiry: II.48 In asana there is...
