Fostering the study of the Yoga-Sutras and their integration into our daily lives.

Yoga Sutras Study

Wednesday, 02 February 2011 02:21 Written by Rebecca

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Why We Kill The Great Masters
The Threat of Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus

Lecture by Salvatore Zambito

The Theosophical Society in Seattle, 717 Broadway East, Seattle, WA

June 9, 2013

4:00 - 5:30 pm

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Salvatore Zambito (WA LMP) (E-RYT 500) has been a massage therapist since 1967 and structural bodyworker since 1977. From 1980 to 1986 he taught Yoga and Stress Management at Boise State University. During this period, he also served as BSU’s Chief of the Anatomical Kinesiology Laboratory, where he directed cadaver dissection and prosection, and served as a teaching assistant. He has created a 400-hour course of bodywork instruction (Dimensional Integration™) accredited through IMSTAC (International Massage and Somatic Therapies Accrediting Council).

Patanjali’s Paradigm -

The Yoga-Sūtra in the 21^st Century

Patañjali’s Paradigm

Psychology, Meditation and Perception of Reality:

the Emergence of Yoga in Vedic India

Little Patañjali was born into the Vedic Civilization, a culture that saw reality in a very different way

from the 21^st Century Western world.

Explore the unstated Vedic cultural assumptions that underlie Patañjali’s system

The Vedic World-view:

The Historic Origins of Yoga

The Place of Yoga in Vedic Society

Physical Reality: Energy, Matter and Time

The Psychological Significance of Sanskrit

Yogic Theory of Personality and the Subtle Body

[koṣas, chakras, samskaras, etc.]

Karma and Dharma in Daily Life

Dynamics of Reincarnation

Yoga and Personal Evolution

Why Yoga Could be Important in Your Life

Physical benefits which include strength, flexibility, improved balance, improved respiration capacity and function, strengthening of the immune system
Systematic induction of relaxation – Yoga is the original stress management system
Promotes emotional grounding and stability
Reduces or eliminates distraction and mind-chatter
Improved mental capacity follows on bringing clarity to the mind field

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Why Study the Yoga Sutras

Why Study the Yoga-Sūtra?

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of philosophy, speculative and applied. All Yogic theory emerges from practice and experience. The book that fully contains and distills the ages of experience of master Yogis is The Yoga-Sūtra of Patanjali. With study in The Yoga-Sūtra, a practitioners practice will become full and complete.

The Yoga-Sūtra defines human consciousness
The Yoga-Sūtra proposes a progressive system for the unfoldment of human consciousness
The Yoga-Sūtra offers a range of modalities for accessing this progressive system

In light of the above points, The Yoga-Sūtra submits human consciousness to the scientific method and stimulates high level critical thinking. The Yoga-Sūtra proposes a system that, if followed carefully over time, leads to the disappearance of the wave-making action (turbulence) in the energy field we call the mind, what we refer to, generally speculatively, as “peace of mind.”