<< All WorkshopsEmbodying the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
New start date - January 2025
Dates/times coming!
Please view this intro video from Rajeev here and read on below for details!
Join us for an immersion into the Yoga Sutras based on the Krishnamacharya tradition of Yoga.
We will take an embodied journey through pada’s (chapters) one and two of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
Through this exploration we will all come to know ourselves more deeply. Gaining insight into our patterns of behavior – those that allow us to flower through our gifts and those that create a “restricted space” inside. And as we go along through the sutras we will discover practices that will enable us to become more of who we truly are.
We will do this with a combination of chanting the sutras, listening to stories, art, journalling, and reflective dialogue. The methodology also emphasizes on group learning – creating time and space for this exploration together as a sangha (spiritual community).
Time commitment:
weeks (90 min sessions) + time set aside for journaling and other reflective work during the week.
Class will meet:
Beginning October 3rd, Thursday evenings 8:00-9:30pm ET
Starting November 7th we will meet 7:00-8:30pm ET
We will return to the 8:00pm ET start time when the USA clocks change again March 13th
**Exact dates and times are listed below to help you remember 🥰💕
Financial commitment:
Preregistration required.
Recommended rate $900 ($20/class), pay from your heart
Pre-requisites:
Intro to Vedic Chanting with Rajeev.
If you haven’t taken this yet, you can do so via the recordings from the last series or join us for this year’s (it is part of the yearly YTT).
Some other info:
Sessions and practices will be recorded
Personal / reflective sharing will not be recorded to protect the privacy of the participant
One must pre-register and commit for the full course. This isn't open to drop-ins
The substance of the course is in the group process and the reflective work; so you are encouraged to join live for at least 80% of the course duration
Thursdays 8:00-9:30pm ET
October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Thursdays 7:00-8:30pm ET
November 7, 14, 21 - December 5, 12, 19 - January 9, 16, 23, 30 - February 6, 13, 20, 27 - March 6
Thursdays 8:00-9:30pm ET
March 13, 20, 27 - April 3, 10, 17, 24 - May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 - June 5, 12, 19, 26 - July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, 14, 21, 28
Course Dates and Times - 45 live classes
Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali
What, why…?
Yoga Sutras (along with Sankhya) is perhaps the most comprehensive compendium of psychology, and a set of practices for a serious seeker in the path of Yoga. This text is an anubhava sastra (experiential text); one that values experience, direct perception, and transformation that is not accessible through thought, intellect, and injunctions.
As we will discover as we go along, the sutra-s “point” to a set of possibilities that emerge when one develops an ability to observe one’s drives, desires, aversions with curiosity and compassion and not with judgment.
This course follows the tradition of Sri Krishnamacharya and Sri TKV Desikachar as taught at Ritambhara. In this tradition, all these practices are contextualised to a “householder”, for someone who is engaged in the day-to-day with the world with all its excitement and challenges.
Amidst this poly-crisis we are living in, perhaps one source of hope towards leaving a more liveable planet for the future comes from a serious enquiry into oneself with compassion. Join us for this unique journey and be an instrument of change in service of Life!
This course will be taught by Rajeev Natarajan, (assisted by Corinne).
Rajeev is an organization development consultant, facilitator and a certified coach trained with Ritambhara and TAO Leadership Academy - both renowned for their work in the leadership space anchored in Indic wisdom blending worldwide best practices.
Born into a family that deeply respects the Hindu tradition and the Sanatana Dharma way of life, Rajeev has had the fortune of growing up in an environment where vedic, shloka, stotra chanting, immersive pujas, family temple tours, and Carnatic music were a part of life! He also went to a school that had weekly homa’s, and teachings from vedic texts as part of the curriculum. This set the stage for an interest in these practices. One of his current quests is to explore how Vedic Chanting can help deepen connection with the sound and through that with the silence from which it emerges.