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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?

Yoga Sutra 1.10: Sleep How does my sleep contribute to my ability to be present? Are there differences between dreaming and deep sleep? What are the relationships between my activities and the quality of my sleep? What is active during my sleep?

Yoga Sutra 1.9: Imagination Do my thoughts contribute to the quality of my participation in my life? What are the stories in my head? What is the role of the stories I create? Is my imagination contributing to my presence? Does my imagination distract me from my life?

Yoga Sutra 1.8: Error Is there a gap between what I think I am doing and what I am actually doing? Do I do what I say I do? Do my actions match my intentions? How can I ensure that what I know is true?

Yoga Sutra 1.7: Knowledge: Direct experience, inference and trustworthy testimony What do I know and how do i know it? Explore what I know, how I know it and how can I ensure that what I know is correct.

Yoga Sutra 1.6: Ways of being: Knowledge, misperception, imagination, sleep and memory How do I know what I know? How do I know if what I think I know is true? What do I think? What are my dreams? What do I store in my memory?

Yoga Sutra 1.5: Know your tendencies Subtitle: Are my inclinations useful or harmful? Summary:To what extent do I know my own inclinations? How do my habits manifest pj=physically, mentally and emotionally? Are my preferences my best friend or my worst enemy? How do my inclinations influence my perspective, decisions and actions?