Welcome to Yogi Sticks!

Do you know your Gomukasana from your Adho Mukha Svanasana? Is your Vrksasana all it can be? And how do you feel about Supta Baddha Konasana? Do you know what I'm even talking about?

Sometimes the Sanskrit - however beautiful it sounds - is not very helpful. So, to encourage my students to expand their yoga practice into their home, I sketch the poses we practice during class on a chart and add the Sanskrit and common name. Hopefully, this is a useful tool to help them along in their yogic journey. I also troll the internet, books, and journals to find interesting articles about yoga and the yogic lifestyle.

The Yoga Sutras

Click on the link below to hear one verse of the the Yoga Sutras being chanted in Sanskrit. It is believed that the great Indian sage, Patanjali, wrote the Yoga Sutras about 2000 BCE as a collection of all yogic knowledge up until that point. It is only 196 verses divided into 4 chapters describing everything from the meaning of yoga, to the practice of the asanas, to the realization of Samadhi (true self or awareness)

Yoga Sutra 1-3 Audio mp3

www.patanjalisutras.com has the entire Yoga Sutra available as an mp3 file.

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