By Elena Brower, Lauren Zander — 2012
Elena Brower explains the action steps that have helped her take her spiritual practice to the next level.
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All forms of Yogic Meditation practiced today are based on the Yoga Sutras—a Sanskrit scripture by the ancient Indian sage, Patanjali. This famous text prescribes a sequence of eight specific practices, ending with samadhi, to reach the ultimate goal of spiritual life.
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Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms.
Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide to the mind states one encounters in meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices.
Strala teaches us to release the stress that inhibits our bodies, our minds, and our lives. It begins with a mindset that drops the myth of “no-pain, no-gain,” and says our best way to get where we’re going is to feel good along the way.