Inspired by 'Light on Yoga'

Earlier this year I wrote a series of posts inspired by the first fourteen paragraphs of the Introduction to Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar. I started the project because every time I read the intro I thought that every paragraph just seemed so dense and powerful! The word "introduction" didn't seem to accurately describe the contents of that section to me; it seemed more like a treatise on the subject. So I thought that it might be fun to dig in and look at each paragraph and do a post about it. I continued through until paragraph fourteen, and then took a break from the project. Here are the links to those posts:

Posts inspired by the Introduction of Light on Yoga:

Paragraph 1 Defining Yoga

Paragraph 2 Where Yoga comes from

Paragraph 3 Who is a Yogi?

Paragraph 4 Bhagavad Gita: the most important authority on yoga philosophy

Paragraph 5 Different facets of yoga

Paragraph 6 Yoga by action

Paragraph 7 Skillful living

Paragraph 8 (part 1) Mind at rest

Paragraph 8 (part 2) Toward clarity

Paragraph 9 'chitta vrtti nirodhah'

Paragraph 10 The word vrtti

Paragraph 11 Controlling the mind

Paragraph 12 The right means

Paragraph 13 The outward quests

Paragraph 14 The inward quests