Traditional Yoga Studies

Right Orientation and Invocation Before Teachings

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Lesson 1 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 2

Introduction: The Impulse toward Transcendence

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Technologies of East and West (YT, pp. xviii-xix)

Reality and Models of Reality (YT, pp. xviii-xix)

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For Reflection

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Yoga and the Modern West (YT, pp. xix-xxx)

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Lesson 2 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 3

Chapter 1 Building Blocks (YT, pp. 3–23)

What Yoga Means to Me by Georg Feuerstein

Comments on Source Reading 1: Dakshinamûrti-Stotra (YT, pp. 12-14)

Additional Source Reading: Tejo-Bindu-Upanishad (5.58b-74)

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What’s in a Name?—The Term Yoga (YT, pp. 5–7)

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Degrees of Self-Transcendence: The Practitioner (Yogin or Yoginî) (YT, pp. 7-8)

For Reflection

Guiding Light: The Teacher (YT, pp. 8-12)

The Washerman and the Lion (story)

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Additional Source Reading

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Learning Beyond the Self: The Disciple (YT, pp. 14-16)

Further Reading

On Discipleship

Giving Birth to a New Identity: Initiation (YT, pp. 16-19)

Crazy Wisdom and Crazy Adepts (YT, pp. 19-23)

Further Reading

Comments on Source Reading 2

For Reflection

Lesson 3 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 4

The Wheel of Yoga (YT, pp. 27-58)

Râja-Yoga: The Resplendent Yoga of Spiritual Kings (YT, pp. 28-29)

Hatha-Yoga: Cultivating an Adamantine Body (YT, pp. 29-31)

Jnâna-Yoga: Seeing with the Eye of Wisdom (YT, pp. 31-33)

The Tripura-Rahasya

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Comments on Source Reading 3

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For Reflection

Lesson 4 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 5

Bhakti-Yoga: The Self-Transcending Power of Love (YT, pp. 36-41)

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Comments on Source Reading 4

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Unshakeable Faith (story)

For Reflection

Further Reading

Lesson 5 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 6

Karma-Yoga: Freedom in Action (YT, pp. 47-51)

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Further Reading

For Reflection

Lesson 6 Quiz

Lesson 6 Assignment (submit)

Intro to Lesson 7

Mantra-Yoga: Sound as a Vehicle of Transcendence

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Further Reading

Laya-Yoga: Dissolving the Universe (YT, pp. 54-55)

Further Reading

For Reflection

Integral Yoga: A Modern Synthesis (YT, pp. 55-58)

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Further Reading

Lesson 7 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 8

Yoga and Other Hindu Traditions (YT, pp. 59–90)

Further Reading

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The Glow of Psychic Power: Yoga and Asceticism (YT, pp. 65-67)

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Asceticism and Gautama the Buddha (Story)

For Reflection

Delight in Nothing: Yoga and the Way of Renunciation (YT, pp. 67-72)

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Further Reading

Lesson 8 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 9

Yoga and Hindu Philosophy (YT, pp. 72-78)

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Pûrva-Mîmâmsâ (YT, pp. 73-74)

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Uttara-Mîmâmsâ (Vedânta = Jnâna-Yoga) (YT, pp. 74-75)

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Sâmkhya (YT, pp. 75-77)

Further Reading

Yoga (YT, p. 77)

Satkârya-Vâda

Additional Source Readings

For Reflection

Vaisheshika (YT, pp. 77-78)

Nyâya (YT, p. 78)

Further Reading

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Lesson 9 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 10

Yoga, Âyur-Veda, and Siddha Medicine (YT, pp. 78-82)

Further Reading

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Lesson 10 Quiz

Intro to Lesson 11

Yoga and Hindu Religion (YT, pp. 83-88)

Further Reading

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Lesson 11 Quiz

Final Quiz

Essay or Project Submission