Here we offer a selection of longer documents in pdf format for download. These will hopefully be useful to Yoga teachers and  dedicated practitioners. We will also offer a few audio talks in MP3 format, again offered on the basis of their usefulness. If you want a longer article to be considered for publication here, contact the editor. (Mike Gould - editor@namaskaram.co.uk.)

 

Patanjali’s Zen: a meditation on the first four sutras of  the Yoga Sutra by Pete Yates.

In this essay, Dr Yates attempts to side-step the usual metaphysical interpretations of Patanjali by returning to the ground of lived experience. The consequences for both practice and one’s orientation to life implied by the analysis are drawn out.

 

 

 

Meditation in the Classical Yoga Tradition by Godfrey Devereux.

Godfri illuminates the last four limbs of Patanjali’s astanga Yoga with great precision and in the light of his own profound practice.

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What have they done to the Yoga class? By Jeremy Jones.

In this paper, Jeremy  gives an impassioned account of how bureaucracy, red-tape and organisational dysfunction are distorting Yoga classes and how we need to return to our spontaneous intelligence when teaching.

 

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