Week 1: Atha

साधना

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
— Rainer Maria Rilke 

Dear Students (sadhakas), 
I am so glad that you have decided to deepen your yoga practice and/or continue in the efforts to build a sturdy  lifelong  effort to know Self. This is the work of your sadhana (practice).
 
Formalizing the yoga and committing to a daily practice can be a very transformative experience. 

One thing that seems to be true is that when a serious and committed discipline is cultivated in one part of your life, it's easier and more graceful to access that habit of being in any aspect of your life you choose to place emphasis.

This site is where you will find  readings, images and quotes for inspiration during your  Sadhana Course at Loka Yoga. 

I bow to your studentship (adhikara) and your wish to grow in yoga through self study (svadyaya)
Yours in Yoga.
Alice

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
— Voltaire

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
― Milan Kundera

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
― William Blake

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'

 ― Lao Tzu

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
― Diogenes Laertius

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
― Jorge Luis Borges

Time is an illusion.
—  Albert Einstein

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
― Mahatma Gandhi

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading for Week 1
Yoga Sutra 1.1

Pranayama for Week 1
Pranayama Week One