Nectar of Patanjali
ONLINE COURSE
Athā Yogānuśāsanam
And now, Yoga
- Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 1.1 -
Nectar of Patanjali
Yoga Sutras with Kaya
The Purpose, Potential & Practice of Yoga
Online Program: August 2023
Clipped from inside the intro class to Nectar of Patañjali
Experience key teachings of Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtras, offered by a steward of the tradition .
Many modern yoga sūtra programs fall into a binary of either dry and academic or share circles. Either way, it is the blind-leading-the blind using two-dimensional books to guide them. Students may feel they have “checked it off the list” or know a few definitions of words, but they miss out on the entire purpose of scriptural study in the tradition.
The study of the Yoga Sūtra’s is meant to be a spiritual practice that heals, transforms and awakens. This is what The Nectar of Patañjali is designed to do.
Kaya’s approach is a profound revelation of tradition, esoteric deep meaning & the lived experience as a mother, householder, yoga practitioner and lineage holder. Her authentic, loving, accessible & enlivened bhāva make the sūtras come alive.
Nectar of Patanjali offers a lineage-based approach that holds sacred the responsibility to reveal the true intentions and meanings of a scripture that can lead to spiritual growth.
Kaya extracts esoteric and transformational nectar of key sutras that reveal
~what is the purpose of yoga~
~what is the nature of the mind~
~what is the divine human potential~
~ what is a dedicated yogic life~
Kaya’s multidemensional teaching style illuminates the yoga sūtras, threading in the vision of the upaṇiṣads, the Bhagavad Gitā and the feminine divine.
In the Nectar of Patañjali, the sūtras will touch your heart & meaningfully impact your personal practice and your life.
Nectar of Patanjali
AUGUST 2023 (Details below)
ONLINE COURSE
FOR YOGA STUDENTS, TEACHERS & SEEKERS
(12 CEU)
We dive in-depth into essential Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali and their traditional commentary of Veda Vyāsa and look at how the Sūtras are connected to key teachings of the Upaṇiṣads and the Bhagavad Gitā.
This program does not cover the entire scripture, but explores three primary topics: Purpose, Potential & Practice of Yoga.
Kaya brings the scripture alive with…
- An approach for sadhakas & seekers
- The story of Patañajli’s yoginī mother
- The image of Patañajli and his place in Purāna
- Chanting the Sūtras
- Deep meaning of key sūtras unpacked clearly
- Mystical insights from Kaya’s gurus
- Profound direct connections between yoga sutras, the upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita
- Experiential practice that is an unfoldment of the teachings
- Live, accessible, deep Q&A
Course Content & Layout
- 5 self-paced 90-minute classes exploring the purpose & potential of yoga according to the Yoga Sūtras – these program recordings were so good that multiple students said “I wish we could do this all over again!”
- 4 LIVE Q&A sessions with Kaya dedicated to your personal questions about the scripture
- 4 Supreme Release Yoga practices curated by Kaya and attuned to the topic
- LIVE chanting with Kaya of the the invocation to Patañjali & the first several sūtras
- Access to Kaya’s private online sangha for questions, insights & conversation
Deepening your wisdom & your practice.
self-paced content & recordings of the Q&As will be available to participants for 3 months.
There is no homework, required reading or pre-requisites for this program.
However, you’ll be gifted yoga practices with Kaya to support embodied wisdom
Suggested companion programs to deepen: Nectar of the Gitā and DeMystifying Karma
5 days of practice, teachings & Q&A spread out over one month so you can deepen & integrate.
Program Schedule, August 5-31, 2023
- Saturday August 5, Self-paced Lesson 1 & 2 released
- Sunday, August 6, Self-paced Yoga Practice
- Thursday, August 10, Live recitation & Q&A {10am PST}
- Saturday, August 12 Self-paced Lesson 3 released
- Sunday, August 13, Self-pacedYoga Practice
- Thursday August 17, Live recitation & Q&A {10am PST}
- Saturday, August 19, Self-paced Lesson 4 released
- Sunday, August 20, Self-pacedYoga Practice
- Thursday, August 24, Live recitation & Q&A {10am PST}
- Saturday, August 26, Lesson 5 Released
- Sunday, August 27, Self-paced Yoga Practice
- Thursday, August 31, Live recitation & Q&A {10am PST}
This program's for you if...
- You’re yoga practitioner or teacher with reverence for the tradition [you do not need to be a yoga teacher}
- You love the yoga sūtras and want to deepen your understanding.
- You feel disconnected from the yoga sutras and think it’s not for you.
- You think the yoga sutras is dry and academic.
- You’ve only experienced Patañjali through modern translations and books
- You’ve attended the Nectar of the Gitā with Kaya
- You want the sūtras to feel deeply personal & meaningful
- You want an authentic, uncolonized yoga teachings
- You are interested in completing a Certification with Kaya
Popularlized Yoga Myths we bust...
- Patanjali says to “control” or “stop” your mind
- Yoga means “union” or “unity”
- Yoga sūtras is not for householders
- Yoga sūtras have no connection to other yogic scripture or views
- There’s no devotion or mysticism in Yoga Sūtras
- Yoga Sūtras is Saṃkhya philosophy or dualistic
- The 8-limb path is appropriate for anyone all the time.
NOTE FROM KAYA
Patañjali Yoga Sūtras is an advanced text for mature practitioners. It’s important that we enter into this not from an academic stance, nor a superficial one. This offering of Patanjali yoga sūtras is desgined to be a personal sacred pilgrimage into a classical yoga text that accounts for the mystical and the vision of vedānta. It is taught under the influence of my own mystical and intelligent lineage gurus – Pujya Swami Dayānanda & Sri Krishan Mantri.
Love,
Kaya