Back in November I had an idea so audacious that I knew I would do it - create a yoga sequence for every verse of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras are a first century text written by a Bhakti yogi named Patanjali. There are four chapters with a total of 196 verses or aphorisms - short phrases containing great wisdom. By posting one video each week, the project will take about four years.

I have been studying the Yoga Sutras since 2012 when I took my first yoga teacher training with Melissa Montilla at Sanctuary Yoga in Gainesville, FL. She recommended that we use the Mukunda Stiles translation, which I continue to prefer to this day. But I have been growing in interest in the Desikachar translation, found at the end of his book The Heart of Yoga. I especially prefer his explanation of verse 1.1, and I reference it in the first class. I continued to study the sutras under Tara Glazier of Abhaya yoga.

See the yoga tab above for the first video in the series, of admittedly poor video quality, and look for more to come!