British Wheel of Yoga (Northern Region)

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Welcome to BWY North Region Website. The aim of the site is to be a central information source for yoga in the North east of England. Please visit the site on a regular basis to find information on Teachers, Classes, Events and Training in your region.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“Deep within the mind, beyond the faintest flicker of thought, our true nature is experience as an undying and omnipresent vastness. Absolute consciousness, animating everything in creation and is the source and goal of all life. Yoga calls it the Self.

There are five types of mental activity. They may or may not cause suffering: Understanding, Misunderstanding, Imagination, Sleep and Memory.

Understanding is correct knowledge based on direct perception, inference, or the reliable testimony of others.
Misunderstanding is the delusion that stems from a false impression of reality.
Imagination is thought based on an image conjured by words, and is without substance.
Sleep is the mental activity that has as its content the sense of nothingness.
Memory is the returning to the mind of past experience.

“These five types of mental activity are settled through the practice of Yoga and the freedom it bestows.”

[Chapter1 v5-12] translated by Alistair Shearer