This is not yet a chapter study, since we havne’t began the joined reading, but it is a shared arrival. As we will sit with the voice of the book, look at the map we will follow, and decide together how we want to read.

What to expect?

– A brief orientation to *Light on Life* and why we are returning to it now 

– The five kośas as a working map for the months ahead — not a diagram to memorise, but a way of seeing a life 

– How the cycle is built: seven Sunday gatherings, from 27 September to 13 December, with Chapters 4–5 and 6–7 held as paired units 

– What it means to read as practitioners rather than as collectors of ideas 

– Space to say who you are, why you are here, and what you hope the inward journey will touch this autumn 

Iyengar wrote as a householder who would not leave the world in order to look holy. He also wrote as a boy who was not expected to live. Both facts belong at the start of this book. We will begin there.