Welcome to Yoga Philosophy and Mental Well-Being: Engage your Kaivalya and Thrive
Course details
How Long: 20 CE Hours + 4 Bonus Hours (2 month subscription, renews if not canceld)
When: Anytime. Evergreen Video Content + Live Tutorials (Wednesdays, 4pm ET)
What If I Can’t Make It To the Tutorials? Send questions: answers posted as recordings.
What: Yoga teachings for mental health (Books 1 and 4 of the Yoga Sūtra)
What You Will Cover
- Overview of Course
- History of Yoga 1: Early Vedas, Sāṅkhya
- History of Yoga 2: Buddhism
- History of Yoga 3: Yoga!
- History of Yoga: Mental Health
- Consequentialism and Anxiety
- Rejecting Yoga Sūtra 1.2 and Psychosis
- The Vṛttis (Disturbances)
- Pramāṇa: means of knowledge
- Remedies for Maladies (Upāyas)
- Devotion to Īśvara and directional shift
- The Past and the Future are Real (Memory, Saṃskāra, Will)
- Accomplishments in Yoga: birth, herbs, chants and penance
- What is the boundary between the Private and the Public
- The Dharmameghasamādhi (Ethical Transformation)
- Yoga vs. Being in the Present (Bonus)
- How to Read and Understand Philosophy (Bonus)
- Stoicism (Bonus)
- Archive of Tutorials
Who Should Enroll
- Yoga practitioners looking to gain insight into Yoga’s guidance for mental health
- Yoga practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of yoga philosophy.
- Yoga teachers seeking to expand their knowledge and teaching repertoire.
- Individuals passionate about philosophy, spirituality, and personal growth.
