Patanjali’s System of Classical Yoga Course- 250 hrs

This course is designed to give your a clear understanding of the philosophy, psychology, and practice of Classical Yoga, also known as râja-yoga, based on a careful study of Patanjali’s extraordinary work.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome
2. Required Books and Audios
3. How to Study
1. Intro to Lesson 1
2. Good Beginnings
3. Why is Study Important?
4. How to Study: Some Practice Hints
5. The Meaning of "Yoga"
6. Yoga: A Theory and Practice Continuum
7. Posture Practice
8. Suggestion Yoga Practice: Corpse Pose (Śavāsana)
9. Further Reading
10. For Reflection
11. Lesson 1 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 2
2. Who is Patanjali?
3. What is a Sūtra?
4. The Classical Commentaries
5. A Whiff of Sanskrit
6. Mapping the Yoga-Sūtras: Its Structure and Contents
7. The Classical Metaphor of the Chariot
8. Lower Mind, Higher Mind
9. Is Wisdom the Same as Intuition?
10. A Bird's-Eye View of the History of Yoga
11. Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina Yoga
12. Yoga and Sāmkhya
13. Yoga and Vedānta
14. Observing the Mind
15. The Big Controversy Over the Meaning of Nirodha
16. Suggested Yoga Practice: Self Observation
17. Further Reading
18. For Reflection
19. Lesson 2 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 3
2. What is Spirit?
3. Inalienable Features of Purusha
4. Purusha vs. Ātman
5. The One and The Many by Georg Feuerstein
6. The Lord, A Special Spirit
7. Grace
8. The Guru Question
9. Om Recitation
10. OM and AUM
11. Further Reading
12. Suggested Yoga Practice: Mantra-Japa
13. For Reflection
14. Lesson 3 Assignment (to submit)
1. Intro to Lesson 4
2. Everything is in Flux
3. Holarchy: Coarse and Subtle Realms of Existence
4. Cosmic Building Blocks: The Three Gunas
5. The Body-Mind as a Machine
6. Evolution/Involution
7. What Exist Never Ceases To Be
8. Yoga is Disunion
9. Correlation (Samyoga) and Leibniz
10. "Sattvification"
11. Is the Ego Real?
12. Further Reading
13. Suggested Yoga Practice: Seeing Gunas Everywhere
14. For Reflection
15. Lesson 4 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 5
2. The Nature of Karmic Existence
3. Living in Ignorance
4. Karma and Reincarnation
5. Suffering and Its Causes
6. The Causes of Affliction
7. From Ignorance to Ego and Its Various Expressions
8. Desire
9. Kriyā Yoga
10. The Supreme Value of Dispassion
11. Spiritual Seeking and Spiritual Materialism
12. Probing the Unconscious Mind
13. Seeing the Cosmos as Suffering
14. The Elimination of Suffering
15. Inner vs Outer Renunciation: A Lesson From the Gītā
16. Disspelling the Darkness of Ignorance
17. Further Reading
18. Suggested Yoga Practice: Visualizing Light
19. For Reflection
20. Lesson 5 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 6
2. An Outline of Patanjali's Eightfold Path
3. Understanding the Eight Limbs
4. From Multiplicity to Simplicity
5. Overcoming Your Addiction to Consensus Reality
6. Jung and Patanjali
7. Spiritual Crisis
8. Spiritual Initiation and Discipleship
9. The Guru: Dispeller of Darkness
10. Patanjali and the Buddha's Eightfold Path
11. Other Yogic Paths
12. One Step At a Time
13. Obstacles on the Path
14. "Higher" Obstacles
15. Further Reading
16. Suggestion Yoga Practice: Understanding the Obstacles in Your Life
17. For Reflection
18. Lesson 6 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 7
2. The Great Vow of the Five Moral Disciplines
3. Nonharming
4. Matahma Gandhi
5. Timely Countermeasures
6. Truthfulness
7. Nonstealing
8. The Idea of Ownership
9. Chastity
10. A Note on Tantra
11. Greedlessness
12. Conspicuous Consumption
13. Voluntary Simplicity
14. Moral Vows and Pledges
15. Jaina Vows
16. Further Reading
17. Suggested Yoga Practice: Responsible Living
18. For Reflection
19. Lesson 7 Quiz
20. Lesson 7 Assignment (to submit)
1. Intro to Lesson 8
2. The Five Practices of Self-Restraint
3. Purity
4. Bodily Perfection
5. Contentment
6. Austerity
7. The Long-Haired Ascetic (Keshin)
8. The Broom of Spiritual Discipline
9. The Austerity of Silence
10. Noise Pollution
11. Right Seeing, Hearing, and Speaking
12. More on Studying
13. Wisdom and the Hierarchy of Needs
14. Devotion to the Lord
15. How to Practice Īshvara-Prahidhāna In a Modern Context
16. Further Reading
17. Suggested Yoga Practice: Cutting Through
18. For Reflection
19. Advice From Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 C.E.)
20. Lesson 8 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 9
2. Posture and Posturing
3. 8,400,000 Postures
4. Hatha-Yoga vs Rāja-Yoga
5. Favourite Meditation Postures
6. Body-Mind Postures
7. The Yogic View of the Body
8. The Subtle Body
9. Scientific Evidence for the Subtle Body
10. Further Reading
11. Suggested Yoga Practice: Stretching Your Body-Mind
12. For Reflection
13. Lesson 9 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 10
2. The Mystery of Life
3. Life and Breath
4. A Dialog On Breath (Prāna-Samvāda
5. Evidence For the Existence of Prāna
6. Prāna and Mind
7. Asceticism of Breathing
8. The Physiology of Breathing
9. The Secret of the Nostrils
10. The Practice of Prānāyāma
11. What is Hamsa?
12. Prānic Healing
13. Further Reading
14. Suggested Yoga Practice: Alternate Nostril Breathing
15. For Reflection
16. Lesson 10 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 11
2. The Nature of the Human Mind
3. Brain, Mind, Consciousness, Awareness
4. Lucid Waking
5. Desire and the Play of Attention
6. Posture For Concentration and Meditation
7. The Yogic Gaze
8. Steady Gazing
9. Inhibiting the Senses
10. What is Concentration
11. Visualization and Meditation
12. The Locus of Meditation
13. The Meditation Brain
14. The Power of Prayer
15. The Healing Mind
16. Further Reading
17. Suggested Yoga Practice: Mindfulness
18. For Reflection
19. Lesson 11 Quiz
20. Lesson 11 Assignent (to submit)
1. Intro to Lesson 12
2. What Are Emotions
3. Positive and Negative Emotions
4. Emotions and The Unconscious
5. The Principle of Cultivating the Opposite
6. The Emotional Patanjali
7. Emotions and the Sensory World
8. Emotional Obstacles on the Path
9. Undoing Old Habit Patterns
10. The Bodhisattva Ideal and Loka-Samgraha
11. Loka-Samgraha and Dharma
12. Faith, Belief, and Knowledge
13. Emotions and Healing
14. The Blessing of Illness
15. Further Reading
16. Faith According to Krishna (Bhagavad-Gītā
17. Suggested Yoga Practice: Emotions Review and the Four Brahma-Vihāras
18. For Reflection
19. Lesson 12 Quiz
20. Lesson 12 Assignment (to submit)
1. intro to Lesson 13
2. Are There Subtle Worlds and Invisible Beings?
3. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet
4. The Science of Parapyschology
5. Going Beyond the Ordinary Senses
6. Yoga Cosmology
7. Begin on the Lower Subtle Plane
8. Paranormal Abilities According to Patanjali
9. Perfected Adepts
10. Siddha Patanjali
11. Omniscience
12. Meditating on the Cave of the Heart
13. Levitating Yogin
14. Control Over the Senses
15. The Five Sources of Paranormal Attainments
16. You Can do Telekinesis!
17. The Eight Great Paranormal Powers of an Adept
18. The Four States of Consciousness
19. Lucid Dreaming?
20. Further Reading
21. Suggested Yoga Practice: Yoga-Nidrā
22. For Reflection
23. Lesson 13 Quiz
24. Lesson 13 Assignment (to submit)
1. Intro to Lesson 14
2. Selective Mind, Objective World
3. Ecstatic Consciousness
4. The Path Toward Superconscious Ecstacy
5. Seeing Ecstasy Correctly
6. Ecstatic Constraint: Inner Limbs, Outer Limbs
7. Samādhi: Some Historical Glimpses by Georg Feuerstein
8. Deep Sleep and Samādhi According to Vedānta
9. Ecstasy: Ekstasis
10. Understanding Ecstasy
11. Spontaneous Experiences of Samādhi
12. From Empathy to Ecstasy
13. Fleeting Samādhi
14. Conscious (Cognitive) Ecstasy
15. The Identity Game
16. Four of Eight Types of Conscious Ecstasy?
17. Blissful Ecstasy
18. Ultrareflective Ecstasy
19. Yogic Samādhi, Trance, and Mystical Intuition
20. The Three Objects of Samāpatti
21. Further Reading
22. Suggested Yoga Practice: Who Am I?
23. For Reflection
24. Lesson 14 Quiz
25. Lesson 14 Assignment (to submit)
1. Intro to Lesson 15
2. From Ecstatic Insight to Freedom
3. Wisdom of the Sāmkhya-Sūtra
4. Transparent Consciousness
5. Supraconscious Ecstasy
6. Seeded and Seedless Ecstasy
7. Levels of Mind Control
8. Supraconscious Ecstasy and the Unconscious
9. In Case of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
10. Ramakrishna-Vivekanda Bibliography
11. Supraconscious Ecstasy: Another Interpretation
12. Dharma-Megha-Samādhi
13. Further Reading
14. Suggested Yoga Practice: Going on Retreat
15. For Reflection
16. Lesson 15 Quiz
1. Intro to Lesson 16
2. Born Free
3. Freedom of Will
4. Know Thyself!
5. The Desire For Liberation
6. The Disillusionment of Liberation
7. En-Light-enment
8. Disembodied vs. Living Liberation
9. The Paradox of Liberation
10. What About the Kundalinī?
11. Further Reading
12. For Reflection
13. Lesson 16 Quiz
14. Final Course Requirements (to submit)

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Patanjali’s System of Classical Yoga Course- 250 hrs

Course curriculum

Getting Started

Lesson 1: Studying the Yogic Way

Lesson 2: Understanding Patanjali and His Yoga-Sūtra

Lesson 3: The Mystery of Spirit (Purusha)

Lesson 4: The Cosmic Machine (Prakriti)

Lesson 5: Dispelling Ignorance Through the Light of Wisdom

Lesson 6: The Eight-Limbed Path to Liberation

Lesson 7: Solid Foundations: The Moral Disciplines

Lesson 8: Turning Up the Heat

Lesson 9: Sitting Still, Standing Tall

Lesson 10: The Breath of Life

Lesson 11: Controlling the Monkey Mind

Lesson 12: Dealing with Emotions

Lesson 13: The Shadow Realm

Lesson 14: Imploding the Mind in Conscious Ecstasy

Chapter 15: Moving Toward Liberation

Chapter 16: Glorious Freedom

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