This is an in-depth, yearlong experiential learning programme anchored to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. The study enables the participant to gain profound personal insights through contemplation and dialogues.
The purpose of this course is not to transmit just an academic translation of the Yoga Sutras.
This is a self-reflective course where your personal life will be the ground for exploration. As such, deep introspection and personal sharing will be encouraged and often expected. True to the Indic tradition, the course weaves together contemplative conversations, meditative practices and interactive dialogues as well as learnings from other ancient texts. Raghu Anantanarayanan and team will guide the participants of this course through the following six-fold engagement using sutras.
- Study of selected texts and watching Yoga Sutra discourses
- Practice of breathing and meditation techniques suggested in the class
- Contemplation of life events, relationships and beliefs
- Sharing of insights from the above in small groups
- Listening as a friend and as an observer to others’ reflections
- Engaging with the facilitators in the class
For the past four decades, Raghu has used the Antaranga approach to enable participants to view one’s aspirations, disappointments, compulsions, patterns with greater clarity and thereby create meaningful ways of being and engaging with the world and oneself. We welcome participants across cultures and timezones.
Priya is a Yoga therapist in the Krishnamacharya tradition. She adapts Reiki & energy work, Vedic chanting, life coaching & Ayurvedic practices in her healing spaces. She is committed to nurturing collectives that have the praxis of Yoga at their heart.
Anisha has been on an exploration to understand herself through yoga for the last 15years which led her to teaching yoga, yoga therapy and inner work through yoga.
Apoorva chanced upon Yoga in her early 20s. A spark was lit within and there was no turning back. Her exploration led her to the Krishnamacharya tradition more than a decade ago. Curious about human behaviour and what drives it, she was thrilled when her search ended (and also began) when she first came upon the Yoga Sutra, which illuminated a path towards answering many questions that had been held for a long time.
Anita is a yoga teacher and therapist in the tradition of Sri.T.Krishnamacarya and Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, a Reiki practitioner and a Life Coach. She is also the founder of Vishoka, a center for learning Indic and energy-based frameworks for living and healing. Her deep concern for human suffering and the problems of unsustainable living kept her on the path of seeking an integrated approach to looking at life, living, learning and healing.
Ankit is a seeker in the wisdom traditions of India. The core of his work includes creating dialogic spaces where people can look within and see the connection between their inner and outer lives. Inspired by the likes of Gandhi, Aurobindo, Vivekananda and Guru Gobind his experiments in service took him back to his roots in Punjab where he is creating a community-led model of higher education which is open, inclusive and accessible for all. Ritambhara for him is a space for engaging in a community which is committed to a DHramic life. He anchors his work of learning and leadership in the Antaranga Yoga Sadhana and the humanistic wisdom of Mahabharata.