YOGA SUTRAS

Yoga Philosophy is one of my favourite aspects of Yoga but one I need to keep coming back to constantly. 
So I’m bringing you along with me for the practice of Svadhyaya. 

Picking apart the Yoga Sutras through study and practice. 
Whenever we study the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, we begin with an invocation to Sage Patanjali.

Invocation to sage Patanjali:
योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वाचां । मलं शरीरस्य च वैद्यकेन ।
योऽपाकरोत्तं प्रवरं मुनीनां । पतञ्जलिं प्राञ्जलिरानतोऽस्मि ॥
आबाहु पुरुषाकारं शङ्खचक्रासि धारिणम् ।
सहस्र शिरसं श्वेतं प्रणमामि पतञ्जलिम् ॥
 

To the noblest of sages, Patanjali,
who gave us yoga for serenity of mind, grammar for purity of speech and medicine for the perfection of the body, I salute.

I salute before Patanjali whose upper body has a human form, whose arms hold a conch, and disc and a sword, who is crowned by a thousand headed cobra. Oh incarnation of Adisesa my humble salutations to thee.