The Yoga Sūtras: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life
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Leslie is a life coach, CBT and NLP practitioner, hypnotherapist and yoga teacher who blends psychology, practical spirituality and meditation to help people understand their patterns, create meaningful change and live with greater clarity.
Journey Description
The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are one of the great maps of the human mind.
Written almost two thousand years ago, these short teachings explore questions that remain remarkably relevant today: Why does the mind become restless? Why do we get caught in patterns of thought and emotion? What does practice really mean? And is it possible to experience a deeper freedom beneath all of this mental activity?
In this Journey, we explore the Yoga Sūtras one teaching at a time.
Rather than approaching the text simply as ancient philosophy, each track brings the Sūtras into everyday life — connecting their wisdom with our habits, emotions, relationships, identity and inner experience.
You do not need to know Sanskrit, practise yoga postures or have any previous knowledge of yoga philosophy. Each teaching is explained with practical reflections that allow you to explore what the Sūtra might mean in your own life.
Beginning with Patañjali’s opening teachings, we gradually uncover a remarkable psychology of awareness, practice and transformation.
You can listen sequentially as a continuing study of the Yoga Sūtras, or return to individual teachings whenever one speaks particularly strongly to where you are in life.
This is not simply a Journey through an ancient text.
It is an invitation to understand your own mind more deeply — and perhaps discover the stillness that has always been there beneath it.
Journey Tracks
The Journey Begins | Yoga Sūtra 1.1
Yoga Sutra 1.1 — Atha Yogānuśāsanam
“Now, the teaching of yoga begins.”
As you listen to this track, notice the significance of the word “Now.”
Patañjali begins not with a theory, but with an invitation to arrive. Yoga begins here, in this moment, with a willingness to pay attention.
You do not need to understand everything immediately. Simply listen with curiosity and allow the teaching to meet you where you are.
Reflection:
What would it mean for you to truly begin now?
You may wish to pause for a few moments after the track and notice what this teaching brings up for you.
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