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Yoga Sutra Study – 3.40

3.40 Udanajayat jala panka kantakadisu asangah utkrantih ca  “By mastery of udana vayu, the yogi can walk over water, swamps and thorns without touching them. He can also levitate.”  Vayu is usually defined as wind or air. Actually vayu is not merely air, but the medium in which air exists

Yoga Sutra Study 3.32

3.32 Kurmanadyam sthairyam  “By samyama on kurma nadi, the yogi can make his body and mind firm and immobile like a tortoise.”  Kurma means tortoise. In Hinduism, kurma is the second incarnation of Vishnu who, in the form of a great turtle, carried the world on his back. There is

Yoga sutra I.12 abhyasa vairagyabhyam tannirodhah

“Practice and detachment are the means to still the movements of consciousness” To practice yoga is to still the movements of our consciousness. When we practice asana we focus the eyes on a dristi point specific for a pose.  Our mind follows our eyes, or the parts of the body

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