Next Live Workshop Series
How to Understand the World
April 7, 14, and 21 at 2:00 pm
Unlimited Replay – Tuition $37
We live in a beautiful, hideous, magical, tedious, comforting and terrifying world. A world of unpredictable cycles of misery and joy and progress and setbacks and celebration and sorrow; a world of personal, political, and ecological uncertainty.
It’s enough to drive you crazy.
Do you sometimes feel like the world is driving you crazy? If so, good: that’s a sign of mental health.
Why? Because we live in a crazy world! And a sane person’s response to an insane world is to feel like they're losing their mind.
But knowing that there’s a good reason why you’re losing your mind doesn’t make it any easier to live in an insane world.
The best way to keep our sanity is to understand why the world is so insane and how that insanity works. Because once you know how something works, you know what to do about it.
Fortunately, the spiritual science of yoga philosophy offers us practical guidance on how to move through the world without being consumed by the world.
How would it feel to be able to clearly see the causes to the effects, the mechanics behind the mystery, the code that creates the Matrix?
Well, you can. And in this workshop, I’m going to show you how. By the end of this workshop series, you’ll
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- understand why the world exists in the first place (it’s not random chance)
- see how psychology is shaped by more than just genetics and social constructs
- understand the role of time in shaping our experience
- know how to act in a way that expands your range of potential knowledge
- know how to cultivate a calm center from which to engage with a raucous world
Sound like what you need to keep your sanity in an insane world?
April 7, 14, and 21 at 2:00 pm
Unlimited Replay – Tuition $37
LIVE WORKSHOP REPLAYS
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE INTERSECTION OF YOGA AND RELIGION
Hosted by Yoga Alliance - Recorded on Feb. 9, 16, and 23, 2021
This workshop series for both yoga teachers and practitioners explores the connection between yoga as a spiritual practice and religion as an expression of faith.
Part 1: Understanding the Relationship Between Yoga and Religion
Our search for spirituality without religion
The purpose, goal, and origin of yoga
Definitions
Evasive maneuvers
What the intersection really looks like
The Supreme Person: God and yoga
Part 2: God, Demigods, Hinduism, and the Absolute Truth
Yoga theology: the concept of God and the
concept of Absolute Truth
Gender and inclusivity in Divinity
Hinduism and the Vedas
Mythology, culture, and religion
God, demigods, and the social divisions
How to honor yoga's roots
Part 3: How to Talk About Yoga as a Sacred Practice
Namaste!
How to respond to QAnon in yoga spaces
The self, the Higher Self, and the Supreme Self
Yoga, Hinduism, and Christianity
Yoga philosophy, Oṁ, and Islam
Masculine and feminine features of Divinity
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE INTERSECTION OF YOGA AND RELIGION
Hosted by Yoga Alliance - Recorded on Feb. 9, 16, and 23, 2021
This workshop series for both yoga teachers and practitioners explores the connection between yoga as a spiritual practice and religion as an expression of faith.
Part 1: Understanding the Relationship Between Yoga and Religion
- Our search for spirituality without religion
- The purpose, goal, and origin of yoga
- Definitions
- Evasive maneuvers
- What the intersection really looks like
- The Supreme Person: God and yoga
Part 2: God, Demigods, Hinduism, and the Absolute Truth
- Yoga theology: the concept of God and the
concept of Absolute Truth - Gender and inclusivity in Divinity
- Hinduism and the Vedas
- Mythology, culture, and religion
- God, demigods, and the social divisions
- How to honor yoga's roots
Part 3: How to Talk About Yoga as a Sacred Practice
- Namaste!
- How to respond to QAnon in yoga spaces
- The self, the Higher Self, and the Supreme Self
- Yoga, Hinduism, and Christianity
- Yoga philosophy, Oṁ, and Islam
- Masculine and feminine features of Divinity
HOW TO READ TRADITIONAL YOGA WISDOM TEXTS
Hosted by Yoga Alliance - Recorded on Sept. 10, 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 2020
PART 1
This workshop series is about how to develop a deep, meaningful connection with the ancient teachings of yoga.
Yoga Teacher Training Programs routinely assign or suggest books like the Yoga-sutras and the Bhagavad-gita as a part of their curriculum. Yoga enthusiasts who want to learn more about the philosophical basis for their practice are also guided toward such literature. What’s usually missing is guidance on how to get the most out of one’s reading.
Does this sound like you?
“I want to read these books but can’t wrap my head around them.”
“I get confused before I’m halfway through the first chapter.”
“I feel discouraged about not being able to access the traditional knowledge”
“The parts that I understand just sound theoretical; I don’t see what the practical application is.”
“I can’t get through these books, so I feel like an imposter when I try to teach yoga philosophy.”
If so, this workshop series is for you.
This four-part series offers a systematic approach to overcoming obstacles to reading traditional yoga literature. You’ll learn techniques for reading yoga wisdom texts that will show you how to hear what the traditional literature is really saying, gain clarity about why the traditional teachings still matter, increase your enthusiasm for reading the traditional texts, and feel confident that what you’re sharing in your classes is both an accurate presentation of traditional yoga philosophy and your personal realization of yoga’s ancient wisdom.
PART 2
PART 4
PART 3
HOW TO READ TRADITIONAL YOGA WISDOM TEXTS
Hosted by Yoga Alliance - Recorded on Sept. 10, 17, 24, and Oct. 1, 2020
This workshop series is about how to develop a deep, meaningful connection with the ancient teachings of yoga.
Yoga Teacher Training Programs routinely assign or suggest books like the Yoga-sutras and the Bhagavad-gita as a part of their curriculum. Yoga enthusiasts who want to learn more about the philosophical basis for their practice are also guided toward such literature. What’s usually missing is guidance on how to get the most out of one’s reading.
Does this sound like you?
- “I want to read these books but can’t wrap my head around them.”
- “I get confused before I’m halfway through the first chapter.”
- “I feel discouraged about not being able to access the traditional knowledge”
- “The parts that I understand just sound theoretical; I don’t see what the practical application is.”
- “I can’t get through these books, so I feel like an imposter when I try to teach yoga philosophy.”
If so, this workshop series is for you.
This four-part series offers a systematic approach to overcoming obstacles to reading traditional yoga literature. You’ll learn techniques for reading yoga wisdom texts that will show you how to hear what the traditional literature is really saying, gain clarity about why the traditional teachings still matter, increase your enthusiasm for reading the traditional texts, and feel confident that what you’re sharing in your classes is both an accurate presentation of traditional yoga philosophy and your personal realization of yoga’s ancient wisdom.
Hari-kirtana das is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, Founding Director of the Bhagavata-sevaya School of Yoga, and the author of In Search of the Highest Truth: Adventures in Yoga Philosophy. He's been practicing yoga for the better part of 45 years and has been teaching yoga in the Washington DC area for the last 11 years.
Hari-kirtana das is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, Founding Director of the Bhagavata-sevaya School of Yoga, and the author of In Search of the Highest Truth: Adventures in Yoga Philosophy. He's been practicing yoga for the better part of 45 years and has been teaching yoga in the Washington DC area for the last 11 years.