My teacher said four words. It took me six months to understand them.

'You are holding your future.' Six months later, I finally understood.

Has a teaching ever arrived for you months or years after you first heard it?

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#yogaphilosophy #rishikesh #yogateacher
#nonattachment #spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice

You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

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#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #mindfulness
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogateacher

I practiced yoga five years before a teacher asked about the other seven limbs.

I'd been doing asana. Not ethics or philosophy. One-eighth.

Did your yoga classes teach you about the eight limbs, or just the poses?

Read essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-yoga-the-west-forgot-274a12e5334e

#yogaphilosophy #eightlimbs #yamasniyamas
#Patanjali #yogasutras #traditionalyoga
#yogaethics #yogabeyondasana #yogalifestyle

My watch battery died on a Sunday. I ran without data for the first time in years.

Day three, something shifted. Without numbers, I started noticing different things.

What do you notice when you remove the measurement?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-hardest-yoga-sutra-to-actually-practice-709eb0d8851d

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy
#nonattachment #running #yoga
#mindfulrunning #spiritualpractice #lettinggo

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

25. Wenn das Nichtwissen aufhört, hört auch die Verbindung (des Sehenden mit dem Gesehenen) auf. Das Aufgeben beider führt zur absoluten Freiheit des Sehers. +

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 207: Fehlt jenes Nichtwissen, so fehlt auch die Vereinigung, welche das Zu-Vermeidende ist; das bedeutet Unabhängigkeit für den Wahrnehmenden.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

21. Das Gesehene existiert nur für den Sehenden. +

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 205: Seinem Wesen nach ist das Erfahrene für ihn, den Wahrnehmenden bestimmt.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

22. Für den, der das Ziel erreicht hat, löst (das Gesehene) sich auf, aber es existiert noch weiter für die anderen wegen der Gemeinsamkeit der Erfahrung.

Patanjalis Yoga-Sutras. Kapitel D (106/107) : Der Sehende und der Gesehene

20. Der Sehende ist nichts anderes als die Energie der Schau. Obwohl er in sich selbst völlig rein ist, sieht er durch die Erfahrung.

Vivekananda (Raja-Yoga, 202): Der Wahrnehmende ist reine Geist, und obgleich er rein ist, wird seine Schau durch die Färbung des Verstandes bestimmt.

You don't become someone who doesn't grasp. You become someone who notices the moment the hands curl.

That gap, between grasping and releasing, is where the sutra actually lives.

Where do you notice the moment your own hands curl?

#yogasutras #aparigraha #yoga
#yogaphilosophy #nonattachment #mindfulness
#spiritualpractice #embodiedpractice #yogateacher

Hi all, I've just moved to social.lol from a self-hosted instance, so it's time
for an updated #introduction

One of my big passions is writing: I have a personal website @
https://kedara.eu where I #blog, tend a #DigitalGarden and web weave a #wiki ,
and try to contribute to the #Indieweb #smallweb communities.

I'm very much into #yoga and #meditation and everything related to that. I'm
trying to learn #Sanskrit because its a beautiful language and also in order to
be able to read text like the #BhagavadGita #Upanishads #YogaSutras
#BhagavataPurana which greatly inspire me.

I'm from the #Netherlands and work in #science in the field of outdoor
#AirQuality I may occasionally share something about that, but this is not a
work account (and any opinions are my own).

I love #photography and am slowly getting back into #AnalogPhotography again,
mostly related to #nature #weather #clouds #trees and other beautiful moments,
people and things. I love the #forest, I'm grateful to live at the edge of the
beautiful #Veluwe nature area.

Unfortunately I'm operating at half power thanks to #LongCovid since Feb. '22,
so some of my hobbies are in "partial maintenance mode".

Let me know if you have similar interests and I'll be happy to chat!