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The best way to understand the yoga sutras of Patanjali is by reflecting on their meaning and applying them in your yoga practice and daily life.

• Can the Yoga Sutras be applied?
• One word Yoga Sutra summary: Presence
• What is Yoga? Definition from the Yoga Sutra
• The essence of yoga: Who am I?
• Yoga Sutra summary infographic

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• 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
• 1.36 Cultivating the inner light
• 1.37 Focus on serenity beyond desire
• 1.38 Insight from dreams
• 1.39 Focus on anything uplifting
• 1.40 Insight from smallest to largest
• 1.41 Pure as crystal
• 1.42 Integration with reasoning
• 1.43 Integration beyond conceptualization
• 1.44 Subtle levels of integration
• 1.45 Undifferentiated substratum of existence
• 1.46 Integration states with seed (sabija)
• 1.47 Purifying integration
• 1.48 & 1.49 Dwelling in absolute true wisdom
• 1.50 Impressions of absolute true wisdom
• 1.51 Supreme integration
• Summary of Chapter 1 of the Yoga Sutra: Integration (samadhi)

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• 2.1 Yogic action: Enthusiasm, intelligence and humility
• 2.2 Less afflictions and greater integration
• 2.3 & 2.4 The five afflictions and their states
• 2.5 Confusing permanent and impermanent
• 2.6 Self-centeredness
• 2.7 & 2.8 Desire and Aversion
• 2.9 Clinging to life
• 2.10 Dissolving subtle afflictions
• 2.11 Meditation counteracts active afflictions
• 2.12, 2.13 & 2.14 Karma
• 2.15 Suffering
• 2.16 Avoiding suffering
• 2.17 The cause of suffering
• 2.18 Experiences leading to liberation
• 2.19 States of manifestation
• 2.20 Witness
• 2.21 Experiences for benefit of the Seer
• 2.22 The world is real
• 2.23 Differentiate permanent from impermanent
• 2.24 Identifying with experiences is confusion (avidya)
• 2.25 Freedom by removing confusion
• 2.26 Uninterrupted discriminative awareness
• 2.27 Liberation unfolds in seven stages
• 2.28 Effects of practicing the eight limbs of yoga
• 2.29 The eight limbs of yoga
• 2.30 & 2.31 The Yamas, wise ways for removing strain – Love (ahimsa)
• 2.30 Yamas: Integrity (satya)
• 2.30 Yamas: Fairness and Generosity (asteya)
• 2.30 Yamas: Curiosity and reverence for life (brahmacharya)
• 2.30 Yamas: Abundance and simplicity (aparigraha)
• 2.32 The Niyamas, wise ways to remove struggle – Clarity (shaucha)
• 2.32 Niyamas: Contenment (samtosha)
• 2.32 Niyamas: Enthusiasm (tapas)
• 2.32 Niyamas: Wisdom (svadhyaya)
• 2.32 Niyamas: Humility (ishvara pranidhana)
• 2.33 Turning things around (pratipaksha bhavana)
• 2.34 Abstaining from negativity and violence
• 2.30-2.34 Guidelines for reducing strain and struggle
• 2.35 Results of love and compassion (ahimsa)
• 2.36 Results of integrity (satya)
• 2.37 Results of fairness and generosity (asteya)
• 2.38 Results of reverence for life (brahmacharya)
• 2.39 Results of freedom from cravings (aparigraha)
• 2.40 Effects of clarity I (shaucha)
• 2.41 Effects of clarity II (shaucha)
• 2.42 Effects of contentment (santosha)
• 2.43 Effects of enthusiasm (tapas)
• 2.44 Effects of wisdom (svadhyaya)
• 2.45 Effects of humility (ishvara pranidhana)
• 2.46 Steady and joyful posture
• 2.47 Releasing struggle and endless integration
• 2.48 Beyond dualities
• 2.49 Pranayama: Breath regulation
• 2.50 Systematic long and subtle breathing
• 2.51 Breath beyond regulation
• 2.52 Brighter inner light
• 2.53 Mind fit for concentration
• 2.54 Pratyahara, inner sensitivity
• 2.55 Senses under control
• Summary of Chapter 2 of the Yoga Sutra

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• Introduction
• 3.1 Concentration – dharana
• 3.2 Meditation – dhyana
• 3.3 Samadhi – integration
• 3.4 Meditative integration – samyama
• 3.5 Direct insight into higher wisdom
• 3.6 Step by step
• 3.7 & 3.8 Levels of awareness
• 3.9 Towards inner silence
• 3.10 Inner Silence Expands
• 3.11 Transformation toward integration
• 3.12 Transformation of unification
• 3.13 Changes in properties, characteristics and states
• 3.14 Essence and characteristics
• 3.15 Perception of changes
• 3.16 Knowing past and future
• 3.17 Samyama for Deep communication
• 3.18 Samyama on impressions (samskaras)
• 3.19 & 3.20 Samyama on gestures and actions
• 3.21 & 3.22 Samyama and invisibility
• 3.23 Samyama and Karma
• 3.24 Samyama on friendliness
• 3.25 Samyama and strength
• 3.26 Samyama on inner light
• 3.27 Samyama on the sun
• 3.28 Samyama on the moon
• 3.29 Samyama on the polestar
• 3.30 Samyama on the navel
• 3.31 Samyama on the pit of the throat
• 3.32 Samyama on the Tortoise Channel
• 3.33 Samyama on the light in the crown of the head
• 3.34 Intuitive insight
• 3.35 Samyama on the heart
• 3.36 Samyama on difference essence and existence
• 3.37 Extraordinary intuition and sensitivity
• 3.38 Caution
• 3.39 Entering somebody else’s body
• 3.40 Lightness and levitation
• 3.41 Radiance
• 3.42 Divine hearing
• 3.43 Traveling through space
• 3.44 The great disembodiment
• 3.45 Mastery over elements
• 3.46 Powers, Perfection and Immunity
• 3.47 Body perfections
• 3.48 Mastery of the senses
• 3.49 Mastery of nature
• 3.50 Supremacy and omniscience
• 3.51 Releasing attainments
• 3.52 Resurgence of undesirable consequences
• 3.53 Wisdom born of discernment
• 3.54 Essential difference of identical objects
• 3.55 Freedom from conditioned existence
• 3.56 Impeccable purity leading to freedom
• Summary of Chapter Three of the Yoga Sutra: Magnificence (vibhuti)

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• 4.1 Sources of optimal efficiency
• 4.2 Being is nature flowing
• 4.3 Life flows according to its potential
• 4.4 Created minds from sense of self
• 4.5 Single underlying awareness
• 4.6 Mind doesn’t generate impressions (samskaras)
• 4.7 Karma of three kinds
• 4.8 Manifestation of impressions (samskaras)
• 4.9 Unique configuration of impressions (samskaras)
• 4.10 Impressions and desire
• 4.11 Causes, support and removal of impressions
• 4.12 Past and future exist in the present
• 4.13 Characteristics change due to primordial tendencies
• 4.14 Each unique object is real
• 4.15 The object remains consistent indepedent of observers
• 4.16 Object does not depend on being perceived
• 4.17 Ways of being influence perception
• 4.18 Consciousness permeates everything that exists
• 4.19 Individual consciousness is neither independent nor autonomous
• 4.20 Pure awareness and world of experience can’t be apprehended simultaneously
• 4.21 One part of individual consciousness can’t observe itself
• 4.22 Your fundamental nature is embodied consciousness
• 4.23 Free awareness reflects Consciousness clearly
• 4.24 Individual awareness reflects Consciousness without distortion
• 4.25 The individual self dissolves
• 4.26 Gravitating toward liberation
• 4.27 & 4.28 Latent impressions and their removal
• 4.29 & 4.30 The greatest harmony
• 4.31 Endless wisdom arises
• 4.32 Gunas in balance and inactivity
• 4.33 The illusion of time ceases
• 4.34 The power of presence
• Summary of Chapter Four: Kaivalya (Emancipation)

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• Y.O.G.A. S.I.M.P.L.E.
• Presence
• Improvising and experimenting
• Attitude and curiosity
• Who do you think you are?
• What is my true nature?
• What is the most important moment of your life?
• Essential question
• Returning to your nature
• Best friend or worst enemy?
• Pause and relax
• What do I know?
• Learning to learn
• Are you a follower?
• Validate – being with what is
• Feel
• Feeling Practice
• Results, success and guidelines
• What do you want?
• Open mind and heart
• The Gift of time
• Yoga, Awareness and Tendencies
• Two needs and one goal
• First fundamental need
• Second Fundamental Need
• One goal
• Awareness and its content
• What are you thinking?
• What are you feeling?
• Natural breath, long breath
• It’s up to you
• Gradual progress
• Two natural tendencies
• Range of Motion, Action, Awareness
• Range of Awareness in Ashtanga Yoga
• Exploring resistance
• Changing direction – Uplift
• Complaining
• Range of Awareness and experiences
• Range of awareness – Concentration
• Range of Awareness – Open awareness
• Distractions
• Sensitivity and feedback
• A mantra for presence
• Can I choose to be happy?
• Could this be your best moment?
• What is health? (part 1)
• Health, appetites and elimination (part 2)
• Health, optimal posture and graceful movement (part 3)
• Health, calm mind, cheerful attitude (part 4)
• Health, compassionate interaction (part 5)
• Health, Summary and application (part 6)

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