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DHARMA TALKS

Outer, Inner and Inner-Most Joy

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

The sentiment of joy is exquisite. I think it is one that we have all experienced at some time and it includes feelings of openness, non-partiality and a willingness to be surprised. The journey through yoga is one that guides toward the experience of greater joy, and this happens over time, along a continuum, whereby [...]

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Spirit Rock: The Subtle Body

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Tias speaks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center as part of the Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers Program Retreat. Recorded on September 19, 2011.

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Yoga Journal Estes Park 2011 – Yoga and the Quest for the Im/Perfect Pose

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Tias gives a public dharma talk for the entire Yoga Journal community at Estes Park in Colorado. Tias gives a public dharma talk for the entire Yoga Journal community at Estes Park in Colorado.  

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Yoga and Perfectionism at Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Prajna Yoga and dharma teacher Tias Little shares his perspective on the beauty of accepting imperfections in practice. Quoting Nisargadatta Maharaj, Tias says, “The real world is beyond our thoughts and ideas; we see it through the net of our desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the [...]

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Yoga Journal Keynote Address: Yoga Amidst the Ordinary

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

At the end of the Yoga Journal Florida 2010 conference, Tias talks about how to take the teachings home with you and actualize them in your daily life. We make the mistake of thinking that we practice yoga in order to get somewhere, the place where yoga is realized. What if yoga is really in [...]

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Awakening Beginner’s Mind

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Tias begins his talk with a koan, where the teaching lies in the question … What? When we begin to embody the dharma we go back to the freshness of “what?” In the beginning of our practice, there is a structure that eventually is let go of and what is left is a readiness, or [...]

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The Sword That Splits Into One

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The topic of Tias’ talk tonight is Manjusri’s ancient symbol of the sword of discriminating wisdom otherwise refered to as “prajna”. According to Tias, one edge of the sword signifies our differentiating mind while the other represents oneness and single-pointed concentration. Tias continues at length explaining the way in which the symbolic power of the [...]

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“The Middle Way” Upaya, Santa Fe, NM

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Tias discusses the non-dual and the dual. One practices yoga with the right and left side of the body to somatically align into the state of the non-dual. The central channel through the body is empty and is in sense the pathway to the non-dual. Yogis try to awaken the central channel to work the [...]

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“The Still Point of the Turning World” Upaya, Santa Fe, NM

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the [...]

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“Conditioning” Yoga Source, Santa Fe NM

Friday, March 7th, 2008

500 Hour Yoga Sutras

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