Connect with the Deeper Wisdom of Yoga
Are you ready to deepen and enliven your yoga practice beyond the mat? Pamela Seelig, yoga practitioner, teacher and author of Threads of Yoga shares how the profound spiritual philosophy and enriching practices of yoga can enhance our daily lives
Pamela Seelig is a yoga and meditation teacher based in New Jersey. She began her yoga journey in 1991 when an illness interrupted her Wall Street career. The practice of yoga helped with recovery and led to a lifelong pursuit of perceiving and sharing yogic wisdom. Pamela’s roots are with the Integral Yoga Institute, and she is a certified Hatha, Raja, and Meditation teacher. She is author of the recently released book, Threads of Yoga, Themes, Reflections, and Meditations to Weave Into Your Practice.
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: The discussion today with Pamela Seelig was stimulating. I appreciated that it began and stayed focused on the basic wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras Book I, sutras 2 and 3.
Yoga citta vrtti nirodha:
"Yoga is the quieting of the mind
And then the seer abides in her true nature"
Pamela defined Yoga as quieting the mind, one fundamental aspect of yoga that we are not our thoughts. Once we quiet our thoughts and learn to observe them, we can experience who we really are, then direct life from this inner connection. The practice you had her share, "Observe the Inner Thought Stream", was a wonderful example of the quotes, practices, and postures she provides in each chapter of her book to bring an experiential wisdom of the yoga thread of the chapter.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: It was a pleasure to discuss your book, Threads of Yoga, with Pamela Seelig. I appreciate how grounded our conversation and her book are in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It was a treat to be able to begin our discussion with Yoga Sutra 1.2, how yoga is the cessation of mental modifications, and 1.3, when mental modifications cease, we rest in our essential nature. I enjoyed her description that “When we see the twinkle in someone’s eye, we’re “seeing” prana.” Our discussion of prana was informative: how to build it, what depletes it, and that we each have an energy sheath underlying the physical body that is important to our health, as was our discussion of the third chakra, manipura.