Patanjali Yoga
with Bijoy Misra
Syllabus
The course is a part of Frog Pond Yoga Centre's Teacher Training Program. It is divided into three eighteen hour segments. Two-hour classes meet once a month and are supplemented with readings and homework. Students with a minimum of three years of yoga training are admitted to the course. The course is expected to be covered in three years with disciplined life style and regular practices of āsana, prāṇāyāma and meditation.
Segment I - (eighteen hours, nine sessions)
Introduction to Vedanta and Philosophy.
What’s Mind – Eastern and Western View
What’s Cognition – Eastern and Western View
What’s Life – Eastern and Western View
Survey of the upanisadic literature
Upanisadic Literature – continued
Q and A and discussion on the material covered (short essay test)
Bhagavadgita – What it is and why it is an important text
Yoga through the Gita
Student reading of literature, practice oral presentation
Segment II - (eighteen hours, nine sessions)
Patanjali Yogasūtram, Books I and II
Introduction, Vocabulary
Book I - Aphorisms 1- 15
Book I - Aphorisms 16-35
Book I - Aphorisms 36 - end
Review of Book I, Introduction of Book II
Book II - Aphorisms 1 - 15
Book II - Aphorisms 16 - 35
Book II - Aphorisms 36 - end
Student Presentations
Segment III - (eighteen hours, nine sessions)
Patanjali Yogasūtram, Books III and IV
Review of Books I and II, Q&A
Book III - Aphorisms 1- 20
Book III - Aphorisms 21- 40
Book III - Aphorisms 41 - end
Discussion, Review of Literature, Student Essays
Book IV - Aphorisms 1 - 12
Book IV - Aphorisms 13 - 24
Book IV - Aphorisms 25 - end
Student Lectures
Optional session on Sanskrit - (eighteen hours, nine sessions)
A course on Sanskrit is offered to interested students to help with chanting, understanding and Mantra
exercise.
Recommended texts -
Sri Krishna Yoga, Lectures on the Gita by Swami Sarvagatananda, Edited by Bijoy Misra
Meditation as Spiritual Culmination, Lectures on Patanjali Yogasūtram by Swami Sarvagatananda
Readings -
Class Notes, Selected material from the Internet and classical literature.