Mental Hygiene with Yogi Charu – Details, episodes & analysis

PRANAYAMA + PRATYAHARA - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Lecture + Guided Meditation. Continuing our conversation on Pranayama, and introducing the fifth limb as described in Patanjali's yoga system, Pratyahara… Understand how to withdraw the senses and go within…

Lecture + meditation from September 21, 2020.

PRANAYAMA - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Lecture + Guided Meditation - the fourth "limb" as described in Patanjali's yoga system. Understand how pranayama works, and we get prana from the sun, our breath, food, water, the environment, and time.

Lecture + meditation from September 17, 2020.

Your senses and sense organs are a gift… be grateful for them! But when we try to enjoy them separate from God, we suffer. When you use your senses to see God’s unconditional love, and to cultivate gratitude for God’s gifts, you make union, or Yoga, between yourself and God. This sincere union allows us to uproot the entanglements of this world, and the tree of karma.

Recorded July 9, 2020

Go an an inner journey to still the mind and heart. Witness the Earth, Sun, and Moon...Develop a relationship with your emotions, and set an intention for the new moon.

A short gratitude meditation for healing. Sync your breath to your gratitude. Gratitude opens up the doors of the infinite.

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Realizations on the present racial uproar we are seeing in USA and around the world. Your comments are encouraged...Please share it if you are inspired by it! Much LOVE to you all! 

Travel throughout the universe, either in yoga nidra or in a seated meditation. Begin with the awareness of your own body, and bring your awareness to the space around you. Go on a journey across the planets and the cosmos - all the while being relaxed and steady. This consciousness brings you back to your true identity - blissful, a resident of the universe, grateful for the planet you live upon. This practice will make you feel relaxed and rejuvenated.

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In these challenging times, let’s connect to each other from a deep spiritual place and raise our compassion, empathy, and our love for each other. Let’s explore the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali to help us better understand the cycles of the world in which we live. Let’s help each other work through stress and anxiety: relax the mind and body. Let’s use the tools and techniques the yogis have taught us for millennia.

The Yoga Sutras are a beautiful philosophy. The Sanskrit word is Darshan: How we see the world; our worldview. We are all philosophers, we have a worldview that gets us out of bed…let’s explore the philosophy of Patanjali together. The questions we ask: Who am I? What is my purpose? Why am I on the Earth Planet? This is a time to question - not just in Covid times, but every day. Let’s explore and contemplate how the rsis before us became purified. We begin with a few mantras, followed by a meditation. Knowledge is followed by realized knowledge.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Lecture + Guided Meditation on ASANA (seat, posture) - the third "limb" as described in Patanjali's yoga system. Learning about the power of coming into Asana...as we develop Asana, restlessness falls, we awaken our kundalini energy. As we connect to the kundalini power, we connect to empathy, humility, and higher states of consciousness that unfold the human potential.
Lecture + meditation from September 14, 2020.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Lecture + Guided Meditation - Book 2, Mantra 44. By study of spiritual books, comes communion with one’s chosen deity. Learn about how we can appreciate and connect through sacred literature. Appreciation that is sincere and deep allows us to appreciate people of any tradition... The core persective that matters is to have love in the heart, and to allow that love to emanate from within to all human beings. 

Lecture from September 10, 2020.