Knowledge, Practice, and Healing
Knowledge, Practice, and Healing
Sundays 6:00am UTC | June 7 – July 26 | 8 sessions | Live Zoom + recordings
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are yoga’s foundational guide to the mind, body, and spirit, yet their depth is often lost in contemporary practice. This course offers serious students a rare opportunity to engage with these classical teachings through original Sanskrit, Iyengar’s interpretive insight, and embodied application.
Under the guidance of Dr. Agi Wittich, scholar of Indology and longtime Iyengar practitioner and teacher, participants will explore how Patanjali’s sutras speak to both timeless philosophical truths and practical, transformative yoga practice. The course emphasizes an integrated approach: ethics, asana, breath, concentration, and meditation are studied as interconnected steps on the path to inner clarity and liberation.
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Session |
Date |
Theme |
Sutra Reference |
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1 |
June 7 |
Entering the Wisdom of Patañjali — orientation and the invocation to Patañjali |
I.1 |
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2 |
June 14 |
Yoga and the Mind — what is yoga? Understanding citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ |
I.2, I.4 |
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3 |
June 21 |
Abhyāsa and Vairāgya — the Twin Pillars of practice and detachment |
I.12–I.16 |
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4 |
June 28 |
Āsana as Path to Samādhi — the body as foundation for meditation |
II.46–II.48 |
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5 |
July 5 |
Prāṇāyāma — Doorway to Inner Luminosity |
II.49–II.53 |
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6 |
July 12 |
Obstacles and Inner Qualities — working with the kleśas |
II.3–5, II.30–33 |
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7 |
July 19 |
The Seer and the Seen — viveka and kaivalya |
II.17, II.20–21, II.25 |
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8 |
July 26 |
Integration and the Path Ahead |
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Methodology: An Integrated, Three-Dimensional Approach
Participants of this course will develop:
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Threads of Patanajli’s Wisdom II – Advanced Online course
The Advanced Threads of Patanajli’s Wisdom course
is an eight-session deep dive into the Yoga Sūtras, built for students who already have a foundation in the text and want to go further, into the more philosophically dense terrain: kleśas, guṇas, conditioning, siddhis, and kaivalya.
Each session pairs the sūtras themselves with a three-perspective method: Vyāsa’s classical commentary, Iyengar’s embodied and devotional reading, and contemporary scholarship (Bryant, Feuerstein, Bachman, O’Brien-Kop) in conversation with both.
The course moves from Kriyā Yoga through the full arc to Kaivalya:
Each session includes guiding and reflection questions, and the course builds directly on Threads in Patañjali’s Wisdom, moving from foundational engagement into deeper study.
© 2025 Dr. Agi Wittich. All rights reserved. Course materials are for enrolled students’ personal educational use only. Please do not share, distribute, or reproduce copyrighted materials. Scholarly excerpts provided under fair use for nonprofit educational purposes (17 U.S.C. § 107).
Agi Wittich is a yoga practitioner since two decades, and is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. Wittich studied Sanskrit and Tamil at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, completing a PhD with a focus on Hinduism, Yoga, and Gender. She has published academic papers exploring topics such as Iyengar yoga and women, the effects of Western media on the image of yoga, and an analysis of the Thirumanthiram yoga text.
