How to Live Your Yoga
An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita
with Daniel Damodar Cordua
$75 Registration
In-person at Palo Santo Yoga or Online Via Zoom
Looking to understand the key ideas underneath your yoga practice?
Ready to shift your life and relationships?
Ready to find more self awareness, personal empowerment, and spiritual connection?
Join us for a very special afternoon of yoga philosophy and engaging timeless spiritual thought! Palo Santo co-founder, Daniel Damodar Cordua will present a fun, captivating, down-to-earth, deeply inspiring & digestible 4 hour introduction to the main yoga text & most-translated book in human history, The Bhagavad Gita.
Learning, exploring & discussing important themes of perennial yogic wisdom from this illuminating book, this immersion will invoke a spiritual intelligence that can be directly applied to our everyday lives - teaching us how to live a more connected existence - and, if we are yogis or yoga teachers, how we can apply this connection to our practice on & off the mat, as well as to our teaching.
What really IS this thing we do and call “Yoga?” This immersion will simplify & make clear the fundamental teachings of yoga by exploring the spiritual concepts of the Bhagavad Gita and other yoga texts, and the four common yoga paths described in this classic – Karma-yoga, Jnana-yoga, Ashtanga-yoga & Bhakti-yoga.
We will learn the spiritually inspiring backstory & context to this historic book and explore how we can apply yoga wisdom to our asana practice & the complexity of our contemporary lives - deepening our yoga practice in today’s world!
Students will be better prepared to interpret yoga teachings for themselves and apply those teachings to their own unique journey and individual lives.
This class is open to all traditions, outlooks, backgrounds, and beliefs and is meant to inspire your life whoever you are and wherever you come from. Be prepared for illuminating concepts, exciting conversation, and sharing & connecting in community.
Subjects to be covered:
What is the true self?
What is the nature of the mind, body, and spirit according to yoga?
What is the relationship between the mind, the intelligence, the ego, and the Self?
What is "spiritual" and what is "material?"
What is Karma? How do we relate to it?
The modes of material nature
The three energies of the divine
Ashtanga-yoga / Meditation
Jnana-Yoga / Study + Renunciation
Karma-yoga / Action
Bhakti-yoga / Devotion
Yoga history & yoga storytelling
Basic concepts & comparison from other yoga wisdom texts & lineages
Mantra meditation & chanting
Spiritual bypassing & spiritual abuse
Living our Yoga: How to practice yoga off the mat
And much more…
About Daniel Damodar Cordua:
Daniel Damodar Cordua (E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP, CRC, LMT) a Philadelphia native, is co-founder of Palo Santo Yoga & Wellness, co-owner of Bhava Wellness, and owner of Empowered Connection Coaching. He is a leader and sought after Yoga Teacher, Mentor, Certified Relationship Coach, Empowerment Coach, and Teacher of Yoga Wisdom, Story, Mantra, & Ayurveda. Damodar has studied with many internationally-renowned yogis, coaches, therapists, & healers both in the U.S. and abroad, regularly making pilgrimages to sacred centers in India and beyond. Holding over 17 years of experience & owning multiple businesses in the healing arts industry, Damodar’s unique style of teaching & coaching is so beloved because he synthesizes contemporary, cutting edge psychology, relationship & self growth ideas & tools with ancient wisdom truths & practices in ways that are profound, down-to-earth, inspiring, transformative - and fun! He works with individuals, couples, dyads, & groups and facilitates trainings, retreats, & men’s circles nationally & internationally and is host of the Empowered Connection Podcast.