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  • I have been studying, practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years because it works. For me, yoga is the most complete and effective system for cultivating presence and living a meaningful life. (I am aware that there are other systems out there, but yoga is the one that has worked best for me). Experiencing the benefits of yoga personally is what inspires, motivates and energizes me to dedicate my life to making yoga available for the benefit of others.

    I started the podcast as a way to share simple and useful ways to understand and, more importantly, apply the wisdom of yoga to everyday life. I was humbled to know that many people have found the podcast useful in their lives. When I finished exploring all of the Yoga Sutras in 201 episodes of the podcast, I thought I might stop creating the podcast. However, in listening to my students and other people in my life, I realized that many of us could use some guidance, encouragement, and support on our journey to feeling healthier, happier, and more balanced. I tried to take a more practical approach in the following 50 episodes of the podcast. As I mentioned before, I look to my students and all the people around me as my teachers to help me decide how to focus my energy to be of service. Again, I have heard people express the challenge of maintaining a consistent practice.

    Last year, I learned about this newer platform, Substack, as a robust platform where I can share articles, audio and video in one place in a way that is easier for people to navigate, and after subscribing to some of the writers on the platform, I am inspired to offer more ways for people to practice a simple, effective and enjoyable form of yoga more regularly.

    On this new platform, I will continue to provide free resources for you to practice with. My intention is also to create more videos, as they may be easier to follow for some practices. Substack also provides an opportunity for you to support my work through paid subscriptions.

    Paid subscriptions

    Simple Yoga and Unravel the Thread are a labor of love. I create all of the content, including the writing, photography, chanting and videos. I record, edit, and post the podcast. I also record, edit, and do all the post-production on my videos. I create all of these resources in two languages, English and Spanish. This is in addition to practicing yoga daily, teaching yoga classes, meeting with students privately, and continuing my own study of yoga. Yes, it is a lot of work. And I do it with joy and enthusiasm. As you can imagine, it all takes energy, time, resources and money.

    If you find these resources useful and valuable, you can contribute to keep the website, blog, podcast and videos up and running. Your support to Simple Yoga and Unravel the Thread contributes at three levels: First, you help me continue learning, growing and sharing. Second, you help keep these resources available for you and others (in both English and Spanish). And third, you cultivate your generosity which is the gift that keeps on giving because generosity enhances your health, increases your happiness, reduces your stress, helps you feel connected to others and may be linked to a longer life as documented by a couple of interesting articles; Why giving is good for your health and Seven Science Backed Reasons Why Generosity is Good For Your Health).

    I invite you to subscribe to this new email list to receive simple, easy, effective and enjoyable 5 to 8 minute yoga practices for your body, mind and emotions. When you subscribe, you will receive regular public posts with practices you can do at home. If you decide to become a paying subscriber, in addition to the free posts, you will receive subscriber-only episodes and posts, and you will be able to post comments and join the community. You can also be a Super Subscriber, willing to give more generously, for that you will receive my undying gratitude for your generosity and support.

    You can subscribe by going to https://simpleyoga.substack.com/

    I look forward to traveling on this journey with you as we continue growing in presence and awareness together.

    Thank you.

    Namaste



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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, Summary and application (part 6)

    How to apply the integral definition of yoga

    What stimulates your appetites?
    How do you satisfy your appetites? How do you feel as a result?
    Is there a balance between your appetites and your elimination?
    What are some effective ways to quiet your mind?
    Are your movements deliberate or are they mechanical?
    How do you regulate the intensity of effort in your activities?
    What happens if you follow Patanjali’s suggestions for calming your mind?
    How do you interact with yourself?
    How do my interactions influence my health?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, compassionate interaction (part 5)

    Can the way I interact with others reflect or influence my health?

    How do I interact? …With myself? …With the people around me? …With family and friends? …With acquaintances and strangers? …With other sentient beings? …With my surroundings? …With the world at large? Is it possible that offering a disinterested helping hand to others can have beneficial effects on both the recipient and the giver?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Health, calm mind, cheerful attitude (part four)

    Does having a calm mind and a cheerful attitude contribute to your state of health?

    What is the state of your mind? Is it possible to modulate the state of your mind?
    What is your general attitude? Can you modulate your emotions? How does yoga affect your state of mind and attitude? Is there a relationship between a calm mind and a happy attitude? What is the relationship between calm mind, attitude and your health?


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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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?


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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Could this be your best moment?

    Would you trade places with an earlier you?

    Is your level of awareness greater than it was before? It may be useful to recognize that right now you are the oldest you have ever been, with more experience and wisdom than you ever had before. At the same time, right now you are the youngest you will ever be. Could this be your best moment?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Choosing to be happy

    What is my perspective on the world? And how does it influence my ways of perceiving and being in the world?
    When I follow my natural tendency to move toward feeling better and away from feeling pain, does my awareness increase?
    Am I trying to manipulate the world to fit my expectations? Is this making me happy or unhappy?
    Wanting the world to please our changing desires, opinions and beliefs guarantees that we will never be happy.

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: A mantra for presence

    Our words influence our thoughts and perspective.

    What words do you use frequently? Are those words useful to be present or are they potential distractors?
    What happens when we replace our tendencies to predict and worry with the mantra Let's see?


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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Sensitivity and feedback

    Are you noticing changes in your sensitivity?

    Do you play internal games to override the common sense feedback you receive? Which do you trust more, the feedback sensitivity loop or your inner tendencies? What happens when you follow your sensitivity? What happens when you follow your tendencies? Do you recognize any of these tendencies in yourself? What are the tendencies you recognize in the society in which you live?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Distractions

    The most important skill to cultivate

    Distractions will happen, sooner or later, either a few times or countless times. Even when we get distracted , noticing that we got distracted indicates that we are present and that we are aware that our attention moved away from our intended focal point. What is important is to keep returning to our focus, to this moment. And, returning without struggle, effort, or self-judgment and with a gentle smile.

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness - Open awareness

    Open Awareness is the experience of being open to whatever each moment brings

    Would it be useful to grow in our ability to modulate our awareness so that we can choose to focus on an idea or object or just be in open awareness?
    What happens if you try this exercise several times? What do you notice?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of awareness - Concentration

    What does it feel like when our mind focuses on just one thing?

    Exploring the range of awareness by focusing our mind on a single object of concentration. When we try to concentrate on a single thing, most of us find that our minds are easily distracted. This exercise strengthens our ability to concentrate. This ability only becomes stronger if we keep returning to our chosen focus. What would happen if you tried this practice for a few days? What would you notice? Would it become easier to focus?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Rango foawareness and experiences

    What happens when you explore your Range of Awareness?

    Most of us find that developing our sensitivity to natural processes enriches our experiences. in yoga, we try to expand our awareness so that we can participate in our lives consciously and intentionally. We experience the world through our senses, and our mind makes sense of the sensory information it receives by using its archive of knowledge, misconceptions, imagination, memories, and dreams. Applying the idea of Range of Awareness to our yoga practice enriches every aspect of our yoga practice while teaching us that awareness is the foundation of our existence.

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Complaining

    Do you ever complain? What do you complain about?

    Is it possible to modulate your complaining? Are our complaints a way to release a build-up of tension and irritation? Or is our complaining an expression of frustration because our expectations do not match the situation we find ourselves in? The first path is a very practical way of turning complaints into action. The second way to act is to see if our complaints are enabling us to improve the quality of our contribution to the moment we are in. Imagine what would happen if all complaints were turned into uplifting actions…

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Changing direction - Uplift

    Practicing pratipaksha bhavana in our lives

    A simple and effective way to turn unhelpful tendencies around. Notice the tendencies and replace them with life affirming and uplifting tendencies. Would it be possible that cultivating an uplifting attitude makes us feel happy and radiant?
    Are you curious to experience what happens when you immerse yourself in the practice of Pratipaksha Bhavana?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Exploring resistance

    What do you resist?

    Resistance tends to arise at the boundaries between pain and tolerable discomfort. How does resistance manifest itself in you? What can we do when we feel resistance? Is our resistance a way of defending our sense of self? Is it possible that our resistance is a sign that we are trying to hold on too tightly to a belief or self-concept?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Awareness in Ashtanga Yoga

    Can Range of Awareness be the integrating element of all the limbs of yoga?

    What happens when we explore the possible options available to us in the Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pratipaksha Bhavana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi? Can the idea of Range of Awareness help us enhance our sensitivity? And, what happens as we refine our sensitivity in all aspects of our yoga practice? What do we discover?

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  • Weaving the Yoga Sutra: Range of Motion, Action, Awareness

    All yoga practices offer opportunities to explore and expand our awareness.

    The notion of Range of Motion is expanded to mean the totality of potential range of healthy movement that we can consciously do. Range of Action is the complete set of possible variations along the many variables involved in healthy activity. Range of Action encompasses all the different aspects of you that are involved in the activity. Using your awareness to explore your range of action enriches the experience and enhances your ability to develop nuance in your practice. Presence is an ever-evolving journey of exploration that leads us to an ever-expanding integrated awareness.

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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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    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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