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A Practical Art

Yoga is a practical art of studying our own Self – from head to toe and through pain or perfection.

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Yoga’s Wholeness of Health

Yoga is an integrated science of holistic health. Its sister science of ayurveda compliments the efforts of the 8-limbs with balance of our body’s constitutions through medicinal and dietary supplements.

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The Fruits of Yoga

The “Tree of Yoga” blooms and fruits! Covering the last 5 limbs of yoga through the metaphor of the tree.

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The Depth of Asana

From the deep roots and a strong trunk of Yamas and Niyamas, the branches of asana expand and extend most fully!

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Live for the Present and Know Yourself Well

Our second week of reading in “Tree of Yoga” for Summer Book Club takes us through all of life’s stages and reminds us to BE PRESENT in practice and life.

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Read with Your Heart as well as Your Head

Our first week of reading Tree of Yoga for Summer Book Club is a great overview and introduction to the whole book! Hope you keep reading!

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SUMMER Book Club 2025 is HERE!

“TREE of YOGA” by BKS Iyengar will be our 2025 Summer book Club for The Yoga Place.

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Never THAT Easy!

Does he pick up the sword? Or does he falter? What if it is both? The spiritual journey is not an easy one to take on, but now we know the ways and means to approach it.

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Divine or Degenerate?

We are nearing the end of The Bhagavad Gita and Krishna is trying to describe “divine action and faith” in comparison to “degenerate action and faith” for Arjuna to proceed on his dharmic path.

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Consciousness and Cosmos

Chapters 14 and 15 continue to describe the energies that make up all of Nature (the gunas) in relation to the pure consciousness of our True Self (jiva), ending with a final description of the vast and “most high” power and energy of the cosmos.