Level 3 — Your Own Practice: Building a Lifelong Sadhana
Build your own sessions, adapt them to seasons, age and energy, add a short retention, japa and longer sitting, keep a journal for life, and know when to seek a teacher
The third step: practise without a book open on the mat. The logic of a session in nine parts, eight families of postures and their counter-poses, four master sessions of 40 to 90 minutes, adaptations for every season, decade and day, a short inner retention with jālandhara, japa with a mālā, thirty minutes of sitting, a twelve-month plan, a journal for life and the nine obstacles of Patañjali with their remedies.
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Inside the book
- Svādhyāya on the mat: practising without a teacher beside you
- The anatomy of a session, with an annotated example
- Eight families of postures and their counter-poses
- Four master sessions: energy, calm, back, long morning
- Adapting to seasons, decades, cycle, energy and travel
- Prāṇāyāma at Level 3: a short inner retention, kapālabhāti, precautions
- Mantra and japa with the mālā
- Dhāraṇā and dhyāna: from twenty to thirty minutes
- The sādhanā journal: day, week, month, year
- A year of practice: twelve monthly themes
- When to seek a teacher, and how to choose a training
- The nine obstacles of Patañjali and their remedies
- Recap, glossary and sources
Who it is for
- Practitioners who finished Level 2 or have practised steadily for a year or more
- Those who want to practise at home without following a book or a video
- Students back from a teacher training who want to keep a personal practice alive
- Anyone who wants a practice that adapts to seasons, age and the energy of the day
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Which language is it in?
This edition is in English. Yogide also publishes it in French.
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