Integration: Yoga Sutra Chapter One

An effective way to make sense of the Yoga Sutras is by reflecting on their meaning and then trying to use them as guidelines for living.

• 1.1 And now, yoga practice
• 1.2 Yoga: Regulating my ways of being
• 1.3 As a result,embodied presence
• 1.4 Misidentification
• 1.5 Know your tendencies
• 1.6 Knowledge, misperception, imagination, sleep and memory
• 1.7 Knowledge: Direct experience, inference and valid testimony
• 1.8 Error results from inaccurate perception
• 1.9 Imagination: Mental activity without experience
• 1.10 Dreamless deep sleep: Mind is empty of content
• 1.11 Memory: Retained experiences
• 1.12 Practice and Release
• 1.13 Practice: Deliberate intention
• 1.14 Firmly rooted practice
• 1.15 Releasing attachments
• 1.16 Awareness of Truth
• 1.17 Progression to deep integration
• 1.18 Integration beyond higher wisdom
• 1.19 Beyond subtle integration
• 1.20 Progression to wisdom
• 1.21 & 1.22 Commitment an intensity
• 1.23 Surrender the illusion of control
• 1.24 Unaffected by afflictions, actions or effects
• 1.25 Unsurpassed seed of omniscience
• 1.26 Unconditioned by time and unequaled teacher
• 1.27 & 1.28 Supreme Being, OM, Chanting and Meditation
• 1.29 Awareness turns inward and disturbances are removed
• 1.30 Distractions and Obstacles
• 1.31 Symptoms of the distractions and obstacles
• 1.32 Single pointed focus
• 1.33 Friendliness, Compassion, Inspiration & Equanimity
• 1.34 Focus on exhalations and retentions
• 1.35 Focus on subtle sense perceptions