This is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to study the Yoga Sutras with Edwin Bryant online.
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Jan 26: Yoga Sutras 1.1-.4, Definition of Yoga. Pre-Patanjali Yoga in the Upanisads and Gita, and references to Yoga in Vedanta and Nyaya.
Feb 2: Yoga Sutras 1.5-14. The five vrittis (states of mind) and the constituents of nirodhah (how to still them)
Feb 9: YS 1.23-29. The Isvara verses with comparative glances at Isvara in the Gita.
Feb 16: YS II. 1-28. The klesas, obstacles to yoga, and the actual (deep-level) cause of suffering.
Feb 23: YS. II. 29-55. The solution to suffering: the eight limbs of Yoga
March 1: Miscellaneous verses of importance from elsewhere in the YS text.
March 8: Iconic pan-Indian Asthanga yoga stories from the Bhagavata Purana.