Yoga Sutra 1.19: Beyond Subtle Integration
Relationship to your body and disembodiment
The counterbalance and complement between life and conscience. Do you identify with your body? Do you identify with your beliefs? What happens when you explore disembodiment?
Yoga Sutra 1.18: Integration beyond higher wisdom
Inner stillness and silence with some impressions remaining
As your inner silence increases are you noticing some patterns in the thoughts, memories and ideas disrupting that silence? What has left strong impressions in you? How do those impressions influence your decisions and behavior? Are you at peace with your past?
Yoga Sutra 1.17: Progression to deep integration
Gradually refining your awareness
As a result of practice and detachment, distractions decrease and concentration can move organically to greater levels of subtlety from reflection, to contemplation, to elation and to deep inner stillness. What is the subtlest aspects of you?
Yoga Sutra 1.16: Awareness of Truth
Setting all distractions aside
It is possible to stop chasing after sensations, thoughts and emotions. What is not temporary? Is there anything that lasts? When you contemplate impermanence, do you notice any changes in your mood, thoughts and actions? What is the background of all of life?
Yoga Sutra 1.15: Releasing attachments
Complementing practice with freedom from grasping
What are the sources of distraction for me at home, at work, in my yoga practice and in my interactions with others? What do I crave? What are the expectations, beliefs and habits I am attached to? Do I have a healthy relationship with whatever comes into my life? Am I trying to control the world outside? Do I have to have an opinion about everything? Am I entertaining myself by making up stories about everything I am experiencing? Can it be enough to just feel what is happening with clarity?
Yoga Sutra 1.14: Firmly rooted practice
Making your yoga practice consistent
Is your practice without interruptions? Are you doing your best effort? Do your actions reflect your intention? Are you acting with joyful curiosity or with ambition? What are the qualities of your actions? Are your actions validated by true knowledge? Since it is probable you will get distracted, for an instant, a few minutes, hours, days, months or years; remember to keep returning to your intention without strain, struggle or self-judgment and with a gentle smile.
Yoga Sutra 1.13: Practice: Deliberate intention
Setting a meaningful intention to guide your practice
What are your commitments? Are your commitments aligned with your heartfelt purpose? What do you allocate energy and time to? What is your goal for your yoga practice? How is that goal similar to or different from the goals you have for your life?
Yoga Sutra 1.12: Practice and Release
Method for decreasing ways of being
Integrating the complementary aspects of Being and Doing to create a dynamic equilibrium that brings about harmony within and without.
Yoga Sutra 1.11: Memory
How do my memories influence my ability to be present?
Is my attitude old or young? What is my relationship to my memories? Are some of my memories charged with unresolved emotions? Can I make peace with my memories?
