Paths of Yoga

The gift of meditation is that it can help us on so many levels. Meditation can help improve our health, work, relationships and overall experience of happiness. But as our bodies and minds regain balance meditation can take us even further.

A basic drive rooted deep within us is the urge to grow and become that which we innately know we are capable of being. Psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers called this the drive towards self-actualization. The Vedic tradition of India recognizes it as the desire for self-realization and many of the techniques that have accumulated over thousands of years are collectively known as Yoga.

This course is for those who have taken a meditation course, Vibrant Health, and would like to explore still further. It is based on the ancient wisdom traditions of India and the Paths of Yoga which developed from them. Americans are familiar with a small part of the Yoga tradition which we associate with exercises using a specific set of postures or poses. But this is not an exercise class. We will explore the many ways that Yoga can take us deeper within ourselves, whether through the intellect, the activities of our lives, devotion, or meditation. The Yoga tradition recognizes that we are all unique and although it gives us many approaches from which to choose, ultimately we all have to find our own path to live our life to the fullest.