Course Daily Overview
1 month
Week 1 - developing the capacity for self-observation
- awareness of thoughts, emotions, action & reaction, effects on the mind, attitudes, positivity & negativity
Week 2 - developing stability
- awareness of patterns of thought, ongoing patterns in life, creating new patterns, regularity in practice, sustaining change
Week 3 - non-attachment - letting go of the obsessive mind and discrimination
- learning to act not react, witnessing & disidentification, attachments to attitudes, transforming negative to positive, maintaining balance, setting direction
Week 4 - self acceptance and goals in life
- self acceptance, skills & attributes, developing the 4 aims/needs in life for balance and self expression, the understanding of dharma and karma
Continue - 2 months
Week 5 - Gunas, a map for self-transformation
- recognising & harmonising the gunas in oneself: states of existence within and around us, tamas, rajas, sattwa
Week 6 - Patanjali Yoga Sutras: codes of consciousness
- Yama, awareness of attitudes, creating harmony, truthful observation in thought & action, honesty with ourselves in action, living with wisdom, reflecting on judgemental own thoughts and actions
Week 7 - Niyama
- awareness of attitudes, cleansing practices, cleanliness thoughts, ideas and actions, contentment expressed in life, self-discipline, self study & learning from others, respect and gratitude
Week 8 - 18 ities
- developing virtues in life