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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!
SUMMER Book Club 2025 is HERE!
“TREE of YOGA” by BKS Iyengar will be our 2025 Summer book Club for The Yoga Place.
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.
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.
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.
Matter vs. Spirit
Chapter 13 is a nice recap and review of many of the previous themes in The Bhagavad Gita. Bringing more clarity to distinguishing matter from spirit.
An Experience of Awe
The awe inspiring vision of the Divine Cosmic Form is explained in chapter 11 of The Bhagavad Gita. And, chapter 12 reminds us that practice is what will keep us focused on the Divine within, listing certain qualities that can instill that experience of LOVE within us.
In ALL Things
Chapters 9 and 10 continue to explain and give examples of what Divinity, God, the Godhead, etc…might mean or look like in the time and context The Gita was written. What do you see or feel is the essence of Divinity for YOU?
