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

Salvatore Zambito

Salvatore Zambito is a well-known mystic, rogue scholar, and world-traveling recluse.

In 1967 while a sophomore in college, Salvatore discovered Hatha Yoga and massage. This was the beginning of his active, and very personal, bodymind research in transpersonal psychology and anatomical kinesiology.

He began his exploration of yoga as a student of Hatha Yoga with the Sivananda Yoga Centers in Chicago and Val Morin, Canada. He was gently coerced into becoming a teacher in 1969. The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali entered his life in 1969.

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.”