Teacher’s Tales:
We know that the Yoga Sutras are essential reading for every yoga teacher training, but did you also know that the Yoga Sutras are like a multi-storey car park?
Let me explain.
I’d practiced yoga for nearly a decade before I started teaching yoga. In all that time I had never picked up a copy of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Not until I saw it as required reading for my 200-hour teacher training did I finally read the Sutras. As a diligent, conscientious student I read every word, cover-to-cover. But I would be lying if I told you it all made sense at the time. Some parts I loved and resonated with me from the start, but of the parts that seemed less clear, I wondered if I would ever really ‘get’ it.
I attended a Jivamukti yoga immersion in 2011. It was a brilliant few days. One of the things I have never forgotten from that time was when Yogeswari - one of the teachers who was leading the immersion - was talking about the Sutras and she described the experience of reading them as being like a multi-storey car park. The idea being that the first time you read them you are on the ground level. On the ground level you can only see so much, so it is only possible to have a certain level of understanding. Then maybe in a year or two or five, while reading the same text you may find that another level of understanding and meaning reveals itself to you. So, you find that you are now on level two or three of the car park (i.e. you are in a different place, so you have a better vantage point than when you were on the ground level). From where you are now, you have a clearer view.
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