By Tom Hess Many consider the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali to be the most important chapter of the text for the practitioner of yoga because it describes the actual practices that one should do to follow the path of yoga. Patanjali starts out in this chapter by defining Kriya Yoga,… Read more »
By Tom Hess The fourth chapter of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is in some ways a culmination of the body of work that has come before and, more important, it is a description of how a realized being exists on the earth. Realized beings are those who have gone through the practice of yoga… Read more »
The First of Four Chapters of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali By Tom Hess The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is one of the most important texts about yoga. A lot of mystery surrounds the text—mainly who wrote it and when was it written? But the truths of the sutras are eternal. The main principal… Read more »
Unbroken Commitment By Tom Hess We at Yoga Center of Chico are celebrating our three-year anniversary this month and we want to thank the people of Chico and the greater Northern Central Valley for supporting us. We are committed to bringing you the best, most consistent yoga teaching that we can. One of the… Read more »
By Tom Hess Advancing in a yoga practice means the student must travel deeply within. In the Taittiriya Upanishad is a description of the five kosas, or layers of awareness, to see the real self within. These kosas provide a vision, or a set of plans, for self-awareness. They are the anamaya kosa, or physical… Read more »
