Practicing Vairagya (Non-attachment)

This class focuses on Vairagya, or Non-attachment (one of the key teachings on this yogic path). This is an all-levels class that lasts about 50-ish minutes. For yogis who are new to sirsasana (headstand), please exercise caution. I recommend learning headstand from an experienced teacher and viewing my headstand video. (Here’s the link.) I do hope you love it.

Vairagya… The Art of Letting Go

What do the Yoga Sutras say about non-attachment (which is different from detachment, my dears)?

When the mind loses desire even for objects seen or described in a tradition or in scriptures, it acquires a state of utter (vashikara) desirelessness that is called non-attachment (vairagya).
(drista anushravika vishaya vitrishnasya vashikara sanjna vairagyam) YS 1:15

This principle goes hand-in-hand with Abhayasa (practice). We accept what is without attachment and tap into the ceaseless joy that exists regardless of circumstance. But how does this work in this modern world? The world where we must pay rent and where we are bombarded daily with images of the newest whosit and whatsit designed with attachment in mind? Well, an inner practice is a good place to start, I think. And beginning to remember, yes remember, that our happiest moments are not those wrapped up in things, right? Or, you could begin as we do in this podcast…with the weather.

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