Today we will meet for an experiential workshop drawing on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (or rules) in dialogue with Jungian depth psychology, structured around three themes:
Relationships: Patanjali’s yamas (social ethics) and niyamas (personal observances) viewed as a relational ethics of clarity, compassion, and non-reactivity, illuminating projection, transference, and the four fundamental types of human relationship; with reflective exercises.
Pranayama: Conscious breathwork as a pathway to stilling the Chitta Vrittis (mind chatter) and regulating the nervous system, based on my published research linking pranayama with neuroscience and healing; with guided practice.
Meditation: Patanjali’s arc of Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (absorption), and Samadhi (centering) as the Eastern counterpart to active imagination or as methods for encountering the deeper Self; offered in guided sitting practice.
Suggested Readings:
Crossing the Healing Zone: From IIlness to Wellness, by Ashok Bedi
Satchidanada, by Ashok Bedi
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, by S.S. Satchidanada,
Read Ashok Bedi’s blog here:
Ashok Bedi Blog: The Sanctification of Desire: The Bhagavad Gita Through a Jungian Lens