Weaving the Yoga Sutra:Health, optimal posture and graceful movement (part 3)

How are your posture and movements?

What are the reasons we have for practicing yoga postures and movements?
Is our optimal posture likely to be influenced by our personal history, context, circumstances, needs and activities? According to the Yoga Sutras there are four components to the practice of yoga postures, including a combination of steadiness and comfort, effortlessness, and focus on infinity. What are the qualities of posture that would make certain postures optimal for you at this time in your life? What are the qualities that contribute to your movements being graceful at this time in your life? Can our ways of acting constitute a form of movement?

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This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the book Unravel the Thread by Ruben Vasquez available at:
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, appetites and elimination (part 2)

Is it possible to integrate adequate appetites and efficient elimination?

What are the appetites that you have at the physical, mental and emotional levels? Are our different types of appetites interrelated? What influences our appetites? Is there a difference between needs and wants? How does our elimination relate to our appetites? Do we eliminate what is no longer useful or do we hold on to it? Which ideas in the Yoga Sutras help us modulate our appetites and elimination? What symptoms indicate to you that your appetites and elimination are in balance? Is it possible that when our appetites and elimination are balanced and integrated, they may not require much attention at all?

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This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the book Unravel the Thread by Ruben Vasquez available at:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/
Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904
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Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208
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Weaving the Yoga Sutra: What is health?

A definition of health and its relation to Patanjali's eight limbs of Yoga

How do you define health?
How does your definition of health guide you through your daily activities?
A comprehensive definition of health that broadens our awareness of health by including the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of our being.
Are all aspects of your being in equilibrium?

https://simple-yoga.org/

This content is inspired by the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali according to the book Unravel the Thread by Ruben Vasquez available at:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/
Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755
Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208
Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/

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