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In the conversation on what yoga lineage is and why it matters, I knew that Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor and Barbara Benagh would offer a multidisciplinary, intersectional conversation that carries both deep respect for what has come before us and a passionate, insightful caring about what may be coming—not just for wisdom tradition practitioners but for the world as a whole. These three have contributed so much to modern yoga and offered what I see as a lasting legacy of wisdom, humility, and grace. In this conversation, we talk about all kinds of things: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, how paradox is something that is loved by the yogic traditions, and how your mind goes into a suspension when you’re really deeply practicing in a wisdom tradition. This talk is deeply philosophical, lovingkindness-based, and community centric.
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Sanskrit:
1. Sankhya: a dualistic school of Indian philosophy
2. Hinayana: small vehicle; a sect of Buddhism
3. Mahayana: great vehicle; a sect of Buddhism
4. Samadhi: liberation
5. Samyama: simultaneous practice of dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and samadhi
6. Nirodha: cessation of desire)
7. Citta vrittis: the thoughts that clutter the mind
8. Kleshas: the characteristics that cause suffering
9. Pada: part
10. Pragya: highest and purest form of understanding
11. Dharma: duty
12. Prana: breath, life force
13. Tadasana: mountain pose
14. Bhakti yoga: a practice within Hinduism focused on loving devotion toward a personal deity
15. Sri vidya: Hindu Tantric religious system
16. Rigvedas: ancient Vedic Sanskrit hymns
17. Upanishads: the most recent part of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures)
18. Naga: race of half-human, half-serpent beings
19. Vaishnava: Hindu denomination worshipping Vishnu
20. Vadriana Buddhism: a branch of Buddhism teaching that it's possible to reach enlightenment in one lifetime
21. Shankacharya: a Vedic scholar
22. Daiva: relating to Gods
23. Shakti: primordial cosmic energy
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References:
1. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor Yoga
2. Barbara Benagh
3. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
4. Bhagavad Gita
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Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
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Subscribe to the Weeks Well newsletter. For more info on Kim Weeks, visit www.weekswell.com.
Follow Kim on Instagram (@weeks.well), Facebook (@weeks.well), Twitter (@weeks_well), YouTube (@weekswell), Patreon (Weeks Well), and TikTok (@weekswell).
Copyright © 2023 Weeks Well®.
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In the conversation on what yoga lineage is and why it matters, I knew that Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor and Barbara Benagh would offer a multidisciplinary, intersectional conversation that carries both deep respect for what has come before us and a passionate, insightful caring about what may be coming—not just for wisdom tradition practitioners but for the world as a whole. These three have contributed so much to modern yoga and offered what I see as a lasting legacy of wisdom, humility, and grace. In this conversation, we talk about all kinds of things: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, how paradox is something that is loved by the yogic traditions, and how your mind goes into a suspension when you’re really deeply practicing in a wisdom tradition. This talk is deeply philosophical, lovingkindness-based, and community centric.
____
Sanskrit:
1. Sankhya: a dualistic school of Indian philosophy
2. Hinayana: small vehicle; a sect of Buddhism
3. Mahayana: great vehicle; a sect of Buddhism
4. Samadhi: liberation
5. Samyama: simultaneous practice of dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and samadhi
6. Nirodha: cessation of desire)
7. Citta vrittis: the thoughts that clutter the mind
8. Kleshas: the characteristics that cause suffering
9. Pada: part
10. Pragya: highest and purest form of understanding
11. Dharma: duty
12. Prana: breath, life force
13. Tadasana: mountain pose
14. Bhakti yoga: a practice within Hinduism focused on loving devotion toward a personal deity
15. Sri vidya: Hindu Tantric religious system
16. Rigvedas: ancient Vedic Sanskrit hymns
17. Upanishads: the most recent part of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures)
18. Naga: race of half-human, half-serpent beings
19. Vaishnava: Hindu denomination worshipping Vishnu
20. Vadriana Buddhism: a branch of Buddhism teaching that it's possible to reach enlightenment in one lifetime
21. Shankacharya: a Vedic scholar
22. Daiva: relating to Gods
23. Shakti: primordial cosmic energy
____
References:
1. Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor Yoga
2. Barbara Benagh
3. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
4. Bhagavad Gita
____
Episode credits:
Original music by Kim's band Governess.
Produced by Alyssa Yeroshefsky and Kim Weeks.
____
Subscribe to the Weeks Well newsletter. For more info on Kim Weeks, visit www.weekswell.com.
Follow Kim on Instagram (@weeks.well), Facebook (@weeks.well), Twitter (@weeks_well), YouTube (@weekswell), Patreon (Weeks Well), and TikTok (@weekswell).
Copyright © 2023 Weeks Well®.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-weeks-well/support
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