The Sutras, Part 2: Defining citta, vrittis, and the gunas
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Last week Jason shared the foundational concepts of purusha and prakriti. Go back and listen if you haven't yet! This week, we continue to talk through foundational concepts that Patanjali presents in The Yoga Sutra -- citta, vrittis, and the gunas. Jason defines terms and paints a picture of how they all fit together. And we also talk about how much we personally believe that Patanjali applies to our own lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 230 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.9 | We are going to continue our discussion of Patanjali today. So Jason's here with us. Hi, Jason. |
| 0:16.8 | Just a pumped Patanjali time. You're pumped. Yeah. It's been five years in the making. |
| 0:23.4 | Five years in the making? What do you mean? Well, the podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | First to get to I mean, like, I've been dealing with I've been doing. I've been telling you |
| 0:29.6 | along about five years. I know, but it is really strange that it's taken me so long to get this |
| 0:33.9 | happening because it's been requested from the very beginning. So, well, it's difficult to talk |
| 0:38.9 | about, right? I was thinking about this a lot. It's as a yoga teacher or a teacher of anything, |
| 0:44.6 | you have to have knowledge of the subject, but you also have to develop the ability to communicate |
| 0:51.0 | that knowledge. And those are different features. I think it's really difficult not only to understand |
| 0:58.7 | some of the layers and nuances of Patanjali. It's really hard to teach it. And I just want to say |
| 1:03.9 | this. This is not a plug at all. I've been teaching 300 hour teacher trainings for a really long time. |
| 1:12.6 | I've always done them live. I'm now doing them online. It is so much easier for me to teach |
| 1:20.1 | this stuff online than it is live. Because one of the things that you're dealing with as a yoga |
| 1:25.8 | teacher is insecurity. You're dealing with your own insecurity, right? And so the place where I am |
| 1:32.2 | most secure as a teacher is when I am moving a little bit and I have my students moving. |
| 1:38.5 | When I have students in a tempo and attuning to their breath and the sensory experience of their |
| 1:46.4 | body, I'm in a pretty comfortable place. When I'm talking about the more subtle layers of |
| 1:55.6 | Patanjali or Upanishads or Bhagavad Gita, and I'm doing that in a lecture context sitting in |
| 2:02.4 | front of a bunch of people who are sitting, I'm not comfortable. It's hard. So of all of the things |
| 2:09.3 | I've ever taught live and online, I feel so much more comfortable teaching this stuff online, |
| 2:16.2 | because there's no one else in the room. You know, it's just me, a camera, some good lights, |
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