On And Off Your Mat

Have you been interested in diving a little deeper into your yoga practice, but at the same have been intimidated by the philosophical texts? Today we are doing an introduction to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which are one of the foundational texts of yoga philosophy and practice. There are 100s of translations and commentaries or the original text and they were written over 2000 years ago, so no wonder it could be intimidating.The sutras are made of 195 or 196 aphorisms (depending on the source). They are divided into 4 chapters or books called pada.The first pada, which is where you’ll find the sutras we are exploring today describes yoga, its goal, and why we want to focus on that. This episode is part of our premium subscription. To get access to it, visit the membership platform. Note that we have recently transitioned our premium content from Patreon to the platform With Ribbon. With Ribbon is awesome and you’ll now find on this new platform Your podcast premium membership where just like