<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WaRMwT2dfSAqexhfOndYg1kBrw9FiaH/preview" width="100%" height="80" allow="autoplay"></iframe> Well, it's called Party Line Day. And that's the day that I give you my version of the Yoga Sutra that you have to teach on this platform. But you don't have to teach it on your own platform. You can do whatever you want, okay? And you can teach whatever kind of yoga you want. On this platform, we will have online classes. And we will also have online philosophy classes. So that's kind of the goal. So the online yoga classes will be divided into whatever divisions you guys want. There'll be an Ashtanga room. There'll be an Ashtanga room. There'll be a Meguma yoga room. And you're welcome to post your own videos there. And every time someone takes a class, you get some kind of income. And Connie's going to figure that out. And then what I thought was we would go through the courses that I wrote in the early 2000s, which are four courses on the Yoga Sutra, four courses on the Hatha Yoga for Deepika, three courses on the Bhagavad Gita, and maybe four courses on Nagarjuna and Niguma and Naropa. So then I'd like to maintain a certain kind of flavor of the philosophy classes and each class I figure originally it was about an hour and a half I think we'll try to get to an hour and 15 minutes and each class will be divided into for example the first class of the first chapter of the Yoga Sutra which is the first course of the Yoga Sutra is divided into eight segments and that will be taught by different people. So I'd like each person who wants to can learn to teach the yoga philosophy and then every 10 minutes will be done by a different person roughly. And then in time I think we could have about 10 times, 2,000 homework questions or something like that, 2,000 segments to be filmed by different people. So what I'm gonna do today is just go through the first class of the first of the first book which is the Yoga Sutra and then you guys listen see how I would like to do the class and then after we're done which I would like to stop at 4 o'clock did I say 4 Connie or 3:30? 30. 3:30 Geshehla we did say. Okay we'll stop at 3:30 just however far we get and then you guys write to Connie this by this evening and you tell her which parts of this class you're interested in teaching for the permanent online video version okay and you can just film it at home and that's fine and we're not going to try to go for uh you know beautiful backgrounds and all this uh we got to talk about a a uh what do you call it dress code i don't know uh you guys can talk about that but i guess whatever you have on right now is probably what you'd like to wear uh on the i don't know maybe uh connie what do you think business casual something like that oh that sounds good yeah you know as long as we the top of you looks good we don't care about the bottom this casual i think is good okay so i'd say uh not like t-shirts but and not like ties and suits but just something we're supposedly we're semi-scholarly okay all right so I'm just gonna go through the first video the way I would do it and I'll make comments about it as I go the idea is that I do that every Monday and then every you guys you know write into Connie and say I'd like to teach this section I'd like to teach this section I'd like to take this 10 minute section and then she will choose I don't know by late Monday then you have two days to get ready to make a version of my presentation in your own way okay so I don't expect you to copy me I'd like you to do it your own way I'd like you to get most of the information in that you see on the homework but if you want to add something that's not crazy or you know you'd like to do it in a different style I'm that's kind of why we're doing it this way and not just having Geshe Michael sit there and teach for 200 hours or something so here we go and I'll send you my notes after we finish okay because I've learned that if I give my notes to people they read the notes and they don't listen. So you're stuck with me talking, all right here we go. The first segment of the homework is who is Master Patanjali? And we're going to talk about five different identities that Master Patanjali had and then let's see if we can tie those identities together. Let's try to figure out who was Master Patanjali, you know, and what do we know about him, and why should we study his book called the Yoga Sutra, okay. So I'm not going to go into the history of the Yoga Sutra in that, that will be in the next session, okay. But basically Patanjali, there's a big, big difference of opinion about when he lived, and if you ask some Indian people they'll say he's 10,000 years and some scholars will say 500 years ago and my my personal estimate just from his topics these were hot topics around 300 AD or 200 AD so call it almost 2,000 years ago and this is the great mother book of all yoga this is where all yoga traditionally this is where yoga is considered to come from. There are older Sanskrit books that mention yoga but this is considered the the granddaddy of all yoga texts and that's what we're going to spend the first part of our online course on that. I guess he has five different identities and the first is the one that we all know he's considered the granddaddy of the yoga tradition in India and mainly yoga, what we call yoga or physical yoga, can be considered something like a physical method of improving your body and your mind. The goal of yoga, which we'll talk about next time, is to reach a body which is very very healthy and a mental state which is very very healthy and emotionally stable and well balanced and happy. So here in the first image that Ben Kramer image number one oh no I sent you I didn't send you all that did I send you all the images I sent you about 13 images. Yeah we'll start with this one. Okay. No, I would have the ladies doing a twist, seated twist. It should say image number one on it or something. I sent you by email. Yeah okay. okay so while you're giving your talk you can you can bring up images because I think it helps people not to get bored you know just a talking head can be pretty boring so what I've what I've been doing you know for about I don't know six or seven years now is in DCI and in Lumrium I will just show images to to kind of make the point that I'm making. So you can say that the first part of Patanjali's identity is that he was a teacher or a master who helped start what we call yoga, the yoga asanas, you know how to how to do physical exercises which will make you healthy. this the second identity that master Patanjali has is he is in India he's considered the founder of classical dance and so the next image I'd like to show is a dancer and hang on one sec Ben I'm going to send you three other images I want to show Okay, let's see. Okay Ben, can you show the dancer? Do you have a dancer? They should be in order. Nope. Okay, I'll send them to you again. Thank you. Okay Ben, I'm preparing those to send you, okay? We should have got some other images. But as you talk, I'd like to put up images. Okay, so anyway, the next image will be of a dancer because Patanjali is considered the father of indian classical dance let's see and then the third part and i'll i'll i'll give you that image later the third part of patanjali's identity is that he's a great philosopher and the yoga sutra It's just, it's a very interesting text because if you know about historical Indian philosophy, it covers a certain period, time period, which was a very beautiful and important time period. And it also covers the greatest, some of the greatest ideas or the greatest issues that were ever discussed in India. So the Yoga Sutra, although it's very short, only about 200 verses, It contains a lot of the great issues that were discussed in ancient times. So in addition to being a great yogi, he was also a great dancer and he was also a great philosopher. And let me see if those images can be sent. That's a drag. Okay, no. Okay, we'll get there. And so you're gonna see an image of somebody holding ancient manuscripts. Okay, the fourth identity that Master Patanjali had was that he was a great Sanskrit, Sanskritist. He was, he wrote a very famous treatise on grammar and he was interested in Sanskrit language and Sanskrit is important because traditionally it is said that the letters the shape of the letters of Sanskrit are taken from the shape of your inner channels and the sounds of Sanskrit are actually supposed to be the sounds of the channels of your body, the inner channels of your body, the sounds that they make. So Sanskrit... I gotta tell you about this image, hang on. I'll do it later. Okay, Ben, I'm sending you another group of images, okay? And hopefully we'll get them covered. so Sanskrit is important for us because if you're a yogi and you're studying the inner body your channels the Sanskrit language is supposed to be the sounds of the channels singing and the shape of the Sanskrit channels is supposed to be the shapes of the Sanskrit letters and then finally his fifth identity was as a doctor and he is the author he is credited and this is again by tradition we we can't say that's uh i would show the picture of the doctor ben kramer uh he's credited with being uh with having written some great uh medical texts okay and these are his five identities and again medicine in ancient India was based largely on on your channels and the movement of prana or energy through your channels and so what how are these five connected and the way I see this segment I see it taught by two people I think it would be most effective if two different people taught it and I thought maybe Ben and Kendra or some couple I'm thinking Ben and Kendra could teach it together because it's a little too much for one person and and I'd like to kind of give everybody a chance to be in the in the videos so I thought this question is gonna be the longest one in this first segment and I think it would be nice to have a couple teach it together you know maybe they could be side by side and in the screen and they could teach it together so to me I thought maybe one person could cover the date of Patanjali and you know what we know about him and his first two identities which is as a founder of the yoga tradition and the founder of classical dance traditionally considered okay and then that would be half of the presentation that would be about 10 minutes and then the second half of the presentation would talk about uh Patanjali as a philosopher as as a Sanskritist and as a physician okay and then I think the second person to speak could the the original homework question was intended to tie together Oops, I'm getting some kind of a echo. Are you? Yeah, we do hear that echo, Geshe-la. Is there anything around you like a phone or something? No, I don't think so. Maybe somebody here is not muted. That's probably the case. I'm the only one so far, but it's all gone, Geshe-la. It sounds fine now. So the second person to speak should should try to tie together what you know if I told you one guy has these five identities then what's the common link you see and and whether or not you give this presentation on the videos I would like each of you to be able to just you know on the spot to give a talk about it because that's the purpose of this training you know so if a student asked you what do these five identities have in common does anybody have a guess yes would someone like to talk because he taught it in new york it's all addressing the inner channels of the body in what way so like yoga how does that address the inner channels uh well you get to move your inner winds there and if you're disturbed then the doctor is going to be able to fix your inner winds And if you're speaking a grammarian and that's made from the inner body and the inner winds, then you have that connection there. And what was the third one? The philosopher. Well, then you want to be able to speak about it well, too. Yeah. And, you know, I think what we're going to talk about later today is that there are eight limbs of eight steps of yoga, Ashta Anga. And really, the physical yoga only covers one of them. and a lot of them are philosophical like what is the ultimate nature of things, what is karma, how do you develop compassion, and those questions are separate. But yeah I think the thing that I if you choose to take this question, Ben and Kendra I suggest, then you at the end of the question I'd like to see tie together, what holds that what ties them all together and I think it's prana and it's the inner body and and and if you really want to do a nice job I would try to get into inner and outer methods you know which is a big big topic in the yoga literature as we study it you know some of these methods are like banging on a pipe from the outside. I like to talk about it sometimes that way. You're trying to clear a pipe under the sink by banging on the outside of it and then maybe that doesn't work and you use a roto-rooter and you get down inside of the pipe and you clean it out. So I think all of Patanjali's identities, the five identities, can be tied to either banging on the pipe or cleaning it out from the inside and I think that would be fun to talk about. Okay so that's just now I wanted to talk a little bit about the images that I would like to use. Kramer are you ready to give me the images in order? Can we say people doing a seated twist first? Yeah so this is the image that I would use for the physical yoga teacher, the teacher of physical yoga and I chose it from a website called 123RF and I use it myself in all of my teaching around the world for the last six or seven years. It's the images cost four or five dollars each and then you're legally you can use them legally and they're all basically the same lighting the same they have a theme they're all high quality they all have the same resolution they all kind of have a certain philosophy to them which is kind of hip and modern okay and so my proposal is that I will pay for those images I'll pay they're four or five dollars each and I'll give you guys if you want I'll give you the website address and the password and you can go in and you guys when you're gonna give a video segment yourselves and you want to spice it up with some images you can go on that website and you can it's a very very good search engine like for this for this image I just said like yoga studio or yoga in the studio and then it produced it so I'd like to have sort of a consistency of the look and feel of the platform okay now Ben kind of anticipated me let's look at the next image Ben which is a dancer yeah and as as I as I speak around the world then I usually put up an image because it makes it more interesting for the audience they don't want to just sit there and watch your face so I would use an image like this for the dancer, okay? The next one, Mr. Kramer, this is to represent the philosopher and this is just a handful of palm leaf manuscripts that somebody photographed at one of our centers, okay? The next image is a classy looking carving of Sanskrit on stone. And that's to represent the Sanskritist. And then the last image, Mr. Kramer, is a doctor. And I like it because it's modern and she looks Indian and it's a lady and it's not all male, which is 99% of all yoga literature is male in the ancient times. So I'd like to spice it up that way too. Now I wanted to show some images. Dr. Kramer can you go to the those three images that I sent you? It's a ohm. Let's start with the ohm. So an image like this is something I don't want to use on the website. I don't want the website to look new agey. I don't want it to look hippie. I want, you know, I'd say like young executives to feel comfortable and not feel that we're pitching some kind of religion or some kind of hippie thing, you know. And I think that's what I I would like our image to differentiate from other kinds of Hindu kind of oriented websites that you can go get an explanation of the Yoga Sutra according to the, I forget, 27, Ben Kramer knows, 27 categories of the Atman. you know, I want to differentiate our teaching and our website from, I want it to be hip, I want it to be modern, Three Jewels is really good at this, and I don't want people to think of it as a Hindu or Buddhist or a hippie, you know. Next image there, Mr. Kramer. Yeah, this is a traditional image of Patanjali and I'm purposely going to avoid, you know, Hindu ashram yoga center. Like I taught at Sivananda Center for 10 years and I also had a conversation with them last and they're beautiful and I love them and I don't want to be them and I don't want to have pictures like this and because in my opinion the majority of people who come to us for yoga which is probably four or five thousand people a year and so we're probably one of the leading organizations in the world that teaches yoga, we don't get religious, we don't make it. This kind of image sends a very strong message that I think would limit our audience to a very small number of people who can relate to this image, you know, or who would want to put it in their house or something like that. So my dream is that we have modern images that people can relate to and we teach it in a way that that modern people could relate to next image dr creamer yeah this is shiva and uh you know i i guess all of you have been to yoga centers where you know there's a big Shiva on the wall and you say well who is Shiva and they say well and they sing Shiva songs hour after hour with the same lyrics over and over and then you know somehow you're supposed to have a relationship with Shiva and his snake and his trident and his half moon and and you know and I've been there I taught with Swami Swarupananda for for many years we taught together and I just don't want to the YSI website to be a Hindu website or a platform that is teaching you to have a relationship with Ram Ram Ram or Shiva Shiva Shiva or you know I just think it's kind of gonna very limit the number people who would like to to to enjoy our website. Many years ago I went to the owner of Pure Yoga, John knows them, and they have very kind of high-end yoga studios around the world and they're doing very well as far as I know. And I offered to teach the Yoga Sutra in all of their centers globally and the guy asked me, what's his name JB? You're muted. John, you're muted. Probably better. Anyway, I forgot his name, but I said, huh? Patrick? Patrick? I don't, JB, is that it? I don't remember. Anyway. Patrick was the manager of all the yoga studios and the main yogi. No, but who owned it? Oh, the Australian. He doesn't own it anymore. But anyway, I went to him and I said, look, I will teach Yoga Sutra in all of your studios and I will pay for it. So I paid all the airfares. I paid for all the hotel costs. And I went to every studio they have and I taught Yoga Sutra this way. And they really liked it. So what I'm proposing, if you guys are okay with it, I don't want to make it a Hindu thing. And I don't want to put up images that are, they don't really mean anything to about 80 or 90% of people who would like to come and do yoga. So that's my proposal. I would like to use an image that conveys sort of using yoga wisdom in a modern context and in a non-religious context. It's sort of like the idea with DCI. So it's kind of like the DCI version of yoga where we keep it, we don't use, you don't try to find a statue of Patanjali which nobody can relate to you show a picture of a modern dancer you show a picture of a woman modern doctor you know and to me that's what I would like that's what I propose for this platform okay it doesn't mean if you have a connection with Shiva you're not allowed to sing Shiva songs in your house and worship Shiva that's fine if you want to do that I don't care but I'd like the website to be I'd like the platform to be kind of modern health and modern mental health okay not if you understand okay okay and I want the look and feel of it to be modern and not and not, you know, old Indian cartoon shivas and stuff like that. It's just not what I want it to be. All right, second segment. I'm going to do a second segment, okay? This is a 10-minute segment. It's about the name Patanjali, and it's open to whoever wants to teach it. By the way, you don't have to teach one of these segments. You can wait till next Monday and choose a different segment, okay we don't have enough segments for everybody today okay this is where you say the Sanskrit for the author's name is Patanjali and the the name has meaning okay and so then you're gonna and I like to throw Sanskrit into the into the teaching we'll explain why later i think it's even a homer question but anyway his name comes from two parts uh first part is pata p-a-t-a and uh pata comes from a root pot p-a-t which means to fall to fall down and then if i'm doing this segment i'm going to sell sanskrit lightly and i'm going say look you'll get you'll get a lot more out of this online course if you learn a few Sanskrit words and we're not going to try to teach you you know five thousand years of Sanskrit but a couple of words would be useful okay so every time we meet online we'll teach you a few more words and this is the first one which is Patanjali and pata means fell down and then I would like whoever takes this one I'd like you to explain the idea of a cognate which means a word in English that comes from Sanskrit okay most well Greek comes from Greek and Latin come from Sanskrit and English comes from Greek and Latin so really I like to say if you know Sanskrit well you can pick up the New York Times and you can see on the front page about you can translate it all into Sanskrit you can almost every word comes from Sanskrit so if you really understand how English was formed it's a lot of fun to pick up a newspaper and almost every word comes from Sanskrit and it's fun to try to figure it out. So anyway pata means fell down, cognate means an English word which came from Sanskrit and the cognates for pata are feather and petal because there are 10 things that fall down and stuff like that. Okay Anjala is an ancient Sanskrit word that means holy water or holy ointment and in fact the English words ointment and unguent they both come from the Sanskrit Anjala. So what's that the fly in the ointment right? So Patanjali fell down into the Angela okay. His name Patanjali means the guy who fell down into the Angela okay. And here's the story, his mom's name was Gonika and she was a very famous yogini and she decided like a Sangha's mother and Vasubandhu's mother, she decided that she needed someone to pass on her knowledge to. She couldn't find anybody outside of the family so just to like like a Sangha's mother and Vasubandhu's mother she decided that she would just get married and have a kid and then teach the kid you know so she did Angela which is in the next picture uh no it's the picture of a hand yeah yeah this is a ancient Indian tradition that you hold a cup water in your hands and you offer it to the gods. And so she did Anjala with a prayer that she could have a son, that she could teach her knowledge. And then suddenly this little human being about two inches high appeared in her hands as if he had fallen out of the sky into the angelas so he's she said oh patanjala patanjali look i have a patanjali you know fell into my hands and that's where his name come from and we confirmed that name uh from the ancient tibetan okay and you can see patanjali is spoken about in a few places in John Brady's database and here's the Tibetan which is called Chor okay and you know nobody's going to remember this and it doesn't matter if they remember this but it gives them some confidence that you know what you're talking about so you know it's traditional to throw some ancient words into the video to distinguish you from you know just some kind of hippie yoga studio video about Patanjali okay so chu chu means water okay just by itself chu means water and then the r here means into okay so chur means into the water and then the means to fall. So this is a confirmation that the Sanskrit is supposed to be read as the little boy who fell into his mom's hands when she prayed for a son. Now this is starting to sound like one of those Hindu ridiculous myths, you know, like the world came out of a golden egg and it's on top of a turtle and you could lose your audience here. So I think it's very important to justify why you're spending so much time on his name. And I would say there's a tradition in many religions that great masters are born miraculously, you know, that to some miraculous birth. And Jesus is a famous example through a virgin birth. And Buddha, I don't know if you guys all know this story, but Buddha slipped out of his mother's side while she was holding on to a tree. and she didn't have any pain from the birth. He just kind of fell out like Patabhumi maybe fell on the ground I guess and then Patanjali. So this it's a tradition for great masters to be born into the world in a way which is miraculous and That has two kinds of significance okay. That's significant for two reasons and this is in the ancient literature. They will say first of all these beings have perfected Ahinsa okay. They will not harm anyone even their mother okay. So rather than being born as we see in the next picture, Rather than being born in tremendous pain and rather than causing their mothers tremendous pain it's traditionally taught that these beings have mastered ahinsa. And by the way we're not going to say ahimsa okay that's not Sanskrit yay ahinsa with Bengali French Nasa okay Ahinsa, H-A-H-I-N-S-A okay as in Nancy okay and so the first traditional explanation of why these people are born miraculously is that it doesn't hurt their mom and and that's a form of a hintha. The second explanation is that they are not forced to come into this world. So the baby you see here has been forced into this world by karma. And the birth is tremendously painful, the life is tremendously painful, the getting old is painful, all the experiences of a human life are painful, and the death is painful. So this child in the picture was born in pain, they will live with a lot of pain in their life and some joy and they will die in pain. And so the holy beings choose not to be born in this way, they are beyond that kind of birth. They come here because they want to come here and they just pop into their mom's hands without any blood and without any trouble okay and they stay for as long as they want. The Hatha Yoga Padibhika says they wandered the world in different disguises endlessly for forever okay so so that's it that's the first three segments okay why do I say three segments well the first segment is going to have two teachers and one teacher is going to do and I'll send you my flow chart okay I have a document called a flow chart and when I teach online I use it and because of the nature of zoom you can be looking at the camera and reading your notes at the same time it's kind of like a teleprompter. So I would encourage you, I'll send you this flow and then you know you're welcome to adjust it if you see some, if you want to give it some other emphasis. This is the basic information which is on the homework. So I think you should, by the time you finish your segment I request that you cover the information on the homework, but if you're, if you've been meditating on your segment and you have some other insight that you'd like to talk about with falling down into the Anjali, or Anjala, or you know why he was a dancer for example, then I'm quite open to that, okay? Just cover the basic homework stuff according to the party line, which is today's talk, and then adjust it in your own way and make it make it beautiful in your own way and let your personality come through okay so that's kind of what's going to make our platform interesting for people is to have different teachers with different kinds of emotions and different skills okay all right now JB where are you I'm trying to find you I guess I have another segment that I would like to add okay and I would like this to be an introductory segment and I was thinking it would be good if John Brady gave it okay and I call this this is kind of be like the trailer that comes at the beginning of the movie. Okay so this is going to be at the very beginning of the of all the segments. Okay and it's a kind of a pitch about YSI and I'm going to go through it as if I was John Brady. Okay I have much more hair but I'm gonna give this pitch as if I was John okay. So I suggest you do it for Thursday JB. Okay you guys ready? Here we go. I'd like to talk today about the mission of the Yoga Studies Institute. Why do we exist? why are we doing these courses online courses you know what what are we trying to achieve in the world you know and I'd say this is my way of saying it JB okay and you okay go so first of all I think that the ancient tradition of yoga was meant to create a person with a totally healthy body and totally healthy happy emotions. So you're meant to be, by the time you finish yoga, you're supposed to have a very healthy body physically and then emotionally you're supposed to be super happy and clear and compassionate and well balanced, okay? And in the ancient tradition of yoga there are eight steps to this process. You have to go through eight different steps to get a totally healthy body and a mind which is which is totally clear and happy. Ben Kramer, Connie wants you to show me because I'm more handsome than this baby. But we're going to go to another image pretty soon anyway. So this according to the ancient tradition this process and by the way the original YSI courses we would say to get to enlightenment and I propose that in YSI courses in 2020 we make it more accessible to my image of a YSI student is a young executive or something in New York City, you know, like I don't want to force them to accept that they can become an enlightened being to take our courses, you know. I think we may want to keep it to the level of hinting about immortality but not talking about it too directly. Okay so anyway I would say this process is at eight steps and that's in fact what the word Ashtanga means. Ashtanga means there are eight steps to a very healthy body and a perfectly happy mind okay. And there's been a great shift in the world. 50 million people approximately are doing yoga on a regular basis okay. And I'm going to send you guys a nice article that came out of Harvard Harvard Health Journal which is Harvard University's health services with the estimates of who does yoga but 16 million a third of them a quarter are over 50. Okay so it's a huge market for guys like me and John okay. And then the image here is somebody doing yoga in a yoga studio you ready Ben Kramer these are the five images i sent you i think they're just called one two three four five i think yeah so here you see you know uh people and this has made people much more healthy the people who are doing the first step of yoga which is called asana okay people who are doing this physical they are much different than other people they have much different health rates. Right now 500 million people in the world including one quarter of all Americans have diabetes okay and it doesn't just mean extra sugar in your blood it means you will lose your leg or you will die young okay and a quarter of all Americans have it. Yoga, physical yoga can help a lot. 15 million people a year die from heart disease and if you do yoga regularly you won't get diabetes and you won't get heart disease. You're much less likely to get those diseases. So yoga has the first step of the eight steps of yoga has already helped Americans a lot. But next picture Ben Kramer. According to the World Health Organization 25% of every human beings on the planet is suffering from some degree of unhappiness which is so severe it could be classified as mental illness okay. So one out of four people in the world, probably more in the last two months, are suffering from some kind of profound unhappiness and lack of peace in their mind and it's really much more serious than the diabetes problem okay. And the physical yoga, if you go to the studio and you do your physical yoga, the first step of yoga, by the way branch is a blind translation of anga, okay, it doesn't have to mean branch, it's yen lock in Tibetan and it can mean a component or it can mean a lam rim, it can mean a step in a process, okay. So if you go to your local studio, the yoga studio, and all you learn is the first step, well let's call it step one, it's not technically, but if all you learn is the first step of yoga which is physical yoga, that will automatically increase your mental happiness. You will be a more balanced person, you will be a happier person, no doubt, okay. But there are seven more steps to yoga in the ancient tradition which are specifically aimed at increasing your mental happiness and state of mind, your mental peace. So here we go. The mission of the Yoga Studies Institute is to provide authentic materials for the study and practice of all eight steps of yoga method, ranging from physical health up to mental health and happiness, okay, to make you a whole person, physical and mental. So in order to to cover especially the last seven steps 33 years ago at next picture Ben Kramer at Princeton University and by the way this happens to be the exact place where we started ACIP which is called Pine Hall and this is where I met Dr. Packard, David Packard, who gave us our first grant to open our first entry center. We started 33 years ago at Princeton University with the help of the Hewlett Packard Foundation and we started to look around the world to find the ancient books that describe all the eight steps of yoga. For example, next picture my team and i'm john brady okay my team went to this ancient library in the mountains of the Himalayas and we have been to many many places like that in the last 33 years and we have been combing the world to find the great sources of the yoga wisdom. And by the way you can call every Buddhist book treats one of the eight Angas of Ashtanga by the way okay very easily you can say that. So first we find the books and then in the next picture here. We train refugees and other poor people around the world to digitalize the books. This is a picture taken in the government library of Mongolia where we've been doing work for I guess 20 years, JB? You can figure it out. Okay. And we're saving in that library we're saving 300,000 manuscripts and so we have digitalized total five million pages. I'm not including Dr. Ramachandran. I'm sorry I'm including Dr. Ramachandran. I'm not counting TBRC okay which is another 16 million or something like that. It doesn't really matter. So we have found 5 million pages of books, we have digitalized them, we have put them up online, and these are the foundation of the Yoga Studies Institute. And this is why our stuff is so special and superior to the entire universe. No, we're not going to say that. But this is why our courses are very authentic. And we have put decades of work into translating the classics, the ancient classics of Asia, and extracting the great wisdom from them to put in these online courses, which you have the great honor to take and pay for. No, you don't have to say that. By the way, those of you who missed the first meeting, we're profit sharing equally, okay? So as long as you hang in there and you don't miss too many sessions, or you're late to sessions, or you thought it started at 11 when it started at 10, then you will share equal share of the profits. And any yoga class you teach on our platform, you get all the share from that After taking out the administrator's fees, which is Connie and her partner, I guess. I don't know. OK. Jacqueline. Oh, yeah, OK. But I mean some staff fees, because we need people to do the online work. Tim showed me a video from this morning. Again, Tim, I'm sorry if you're online right now. I missed that this morning due to an extreme emergency at home. They have like 80 people helping with get their stuff online and that's about how many it takes. And by the way, Connie, you can decide by Saturday. I think you could get Stanley and Allison to do simultaneous translation if you want. That's what I've been doing in the Lam Rim. So I sat and did 25 episodes. Tim filmed it with a you know with the iPhone and some other cameras and then Stanley and Allison alternated as my translators and I taught for two minutes then they translated for two minutes and then what Tim has done is he's got 80 people including translators of many languages they cut out the Chinese and they insert the German or the Russian or the Spanish you know that takes a tremendous amount of work it takes a tremendous team of volunteers only Tim has the what do you call it only Tim is handsome enough with his hair to attract 80 volunteers to do that massive amount of work. But I'll tell you, I don't mind if YSI is available in Chinese language. I don't see it as threatening our existence in mainland China. As long as we keep it as secular as I have presented it today, and we don't put religious images and we don't do you know hippie uh shiva shiva chants uh i think it's okay to have it available you know online i i believe that that level of yoga is acceptable to the chinese government for example they do the yoga what do you call that they do the annual yoga exhibition in hong kong and shanghai nowadays what is that called jb it's the uh yoga the asian yoga conference twice a year and they get like 5 000 visitors and i taught at that for many years and so far the government hasn't said anything so as long as we don't mix in religion uh you know as as long as there's no shiva things going on i don't i i think our platform could be multilingual uh but that's totally up to you guys it's a tremendous amount of work and Tim has really shown that he can do it. So you know you should try to clone him for YSI. You need sort of a nerd. He's very good at online stuff. He understands how to create a community online, which I'm not good at, you know. So I think you're going to need a couple staff people like that who are young enough to understand online communities, Facebook kind of stuff, you know. Okay, that's my opinion. All right. Yes, I'd like to mention that we have three Sanskrit centers in India. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm going to finish this pitch, okay? You ready? It's got a few more sentences. Therefore, as you go through these online courses of Yoga Studies Institute, you'll be diving directly into the great classics of yoga. You'll be learning what I like to call the missing seven. What's that mean? Everything but the asana. Exactly, and I might want you to call this talk the missing seven you know I think it's kind of a sexy name. So you'll be exploring these ancient books some of them have been translated by our staff for the first time ever and aside from this very wonderful yoga philosophy courses to learn the deeper ideas of yoga, you will have the opportunity to take yoga classes with the same teachers who are teaching the yoga philosophy. And I think that would be cool to say. You know, so this Ben Kramer guy and this Kendra lady and you know this Erin lady and this Nick guy, they all have yoga classes on our platform and if you thought that Nick was particularly handsome with the unshaved look as he taught question number six then be sure to catch his yoga classes on our platform okay something like that you can pitch the classes on on the same platform okay and so by the and And in our online yoga studio you will find a wide range of classes ranging from you know breathtaking vinyasa classes up to meditative yin classes which are quiet and peaceful and all done on the floor okay and by candlelight. So I would mention that there's a big range of you know that will kick your ass but we'll also put you into some you know half hour stretch followed by a 45 minute shavasana or something like that okay which is going to be my specialty and then i would wrap that up next last image mr kramer It's the lady with her arms up. Yeah I'd say by our goal by the end of this process is that you are just a healthier, happier, which by the way makes you more successful person in your life. Okay so it's kind of like the DCI of yoga. Okay I didn't finish the first homework. It takes me time to find the images and I think let's not try to finish exactly 10 questions every Monday. Let's go until we run out of time and then we just continue with the next segment. The next segment is called "Why should you learn some Sanskrit?" The segment after that is called "What does the word Sutra mean?" The segment after that is called, you know, what does it mean to say, to refer to one of the chapters in the Yoga Sutra. And the last segment is something like, why is the first chapter called meditation? Okay, so these are videos. They're average around 10 minutes each. And those of you who don't get a segment tonight you can you can choose one next Monday okay so we'll keep going like that all right and now just to remind everybody so whoever asks Connie for sections and those three people I'd like to push Ben and Kendra JB. So I think JB would start, his segment would start. It's kind of an overall introduction to the whole series of videos. There will be about 200 videos. They will have about 10 sections each so there'll be about 2,000 segments by the time we finish okay. And so Thursday we'll have those three people plus whoever wins the bidding on the word Patanjali okay. I don't know maybe John Campbell is the Sanskrit expert maybe he could be more convincing but that's up to you Connie. So Connie's going to try to balance personalities, appearances, ages, sex, male or female. And so she'll make her decision. She'll make all those decisions, all the unpopular decisions she will make about who gets to teach when. We try to get everybody in before we move on to the second segment by any person. You see what I mean? So everybody will get a chance. We'll have strong speakers. We'll have not so strong speakers. But I have faith that all of you will be good by the end. So that's why you're here. And so we're just going to learn to do it. So next session is Thursday, right, Connie? Two o'clock. It will take longer because we will critique you. And we'll try to do it in a nice, positive way. But all of us will be audience for the people who choose to present. And then after I critique you go back for how many days? You go back for Friday, you practice some more, and then Saturday is the actual filming of your segment. And that will take it. So I see Thursday as being a longer session because people will have to critique. week, so maybe two to four. And then Saturday will be a shorter session because we're just filming. And we're filming about a half hour, filming half an hour takes about an hour and 15 minutes or something like that with all the futz around time. So any comments, any questions. Geshla, can you assign some times to each of those four sections that you want people to speak about next time? Yeah, in fact, Connie, if I send you my flowchart, is it something you could send to people before we finish today? Yeah, yeah, if you get it out, yeah. Okay, so let me write the... And I will make a WhatsApp group for everybody. I think that's probably the easiest way with you in it Geshe then you could post immediately to a WhatsApp group. Yeah you have to teach me okay I'm kind of retarded this week. Okay. Connie I have a question about Saturday then what's the timing of filming and how would that happen for somebody who's not in town? Oh you know actually I was talking with Tim yesterday if we we can just do it you you know what when Geshe Michael's up on the full screen then the screen just tapes Geshe Michael and so that's that can be just the video that could be just one section of the video that gets put up so it's no it's not a problem you're zooming in from wherever you are but you're the key speaker at that time yeah we're asking you to just we're gonna market these as done during the virus period so we're not even going to try to have a consistent background or anything like that you know we'd like you to to wear generally uh business casual and we're just going to film you off of the zoom of the zoom thing and you know with all the warts and imperfections that's fine okay connie i sent you the my flow chart Thanks, Michael. 10 minutes or less on our talk, correct? Between 8 and 10 minutes, Max? Yeah, well, each segment I put a time on each one already. You're going to get that in the document right now. If we all stick to our time, then the whole first class is going to be one hour and 21 minutes. I personally cannot stick to a time, as you may have noticed. So I think we're just going to have to, during the Thursday session, we will critique you if you go over by too much. But if your stuff is really nice and you go over by three or four minutes, I don't think we're going to say anything. So we should come prepared Thursday to present? No, those who win the lottery tonight will present on Thursday. I think it's going to be four people then. The introduction by JB, the five occupations of Patanjali, I proposed by Ben and Kendra. And then maybe John Campbell, I don't know. You guys decide, Connie. Connie is the main decider. but balance it and that's going to be the whole uh thing about patanjali and what i'm requesting and what i didn't emphasize is that by the end of your allotted time you try to you try to connect this somehow to people's real life and you say okay now i'm done with my 10 minute presentation I got 30 seconds. Here's a suggestion I have for how to use this in your real life at home or something like that. I think that should be a trademark of these videos. And that's, I didn't supply that. You guys kind of have to figure that out yourself. Geshla, I have one question. You gave us, thank you for giving us the one, two, three RF. So are we supposed to get new images or we use your images and add on to your images? I prefer that you use my images for a while. Okay. And I want to say I'm extremely picky about images. I've tried to have other people choose my images and it was a total failure. And I will go through hundreds of images to find the perfect one. And, you know, I'm going to be really, really picky about them. I want the images to fit the flavor of the platform. And that's more sensitive than what you say. You know, pictures tell a thousand words. And they convey to our audience who we are. And so, but I have a suggestion. I'm going to give you guys the, I'm going to open up my pocketbook right now. Let's see. Yeah. And just show some restraint, okay? It's $5 out of my pocket every time you buy one, okay? And it will run out. I think I buy 100 at a time or something. No, I buy 25 at a time. And then I have to restock. So you may go on the site and it says you're out of money. And then just let me know and I'll fill it up again. Okay, the username, are you ready? Is Sweet P, which is my wife. S-W-E-E-T-P-E-A and then V at the end. So Sweet P, V, all lowercase. the website is called 123rf which means one two three royalty free and they're not and uh the password is fragrant 16 uh the word fragrant uh followed by the number 16 no spaces no and it's all lowercase okay and if if you're chosen to give a presentation this thursday and you'd like to propose a different image I'm very open to it because that's part of your education as a teacher okay and I'm happy to consider it and you're gonna be happy when I say no I want the one I chose but no let's let's start that process and I don't mind to lose some money at it I'm fine with that and like if you have an image that talks to you more or John I know John you know these are my favorite ACIP images you know like the dark picture to me is really sexy the Mongolian lady is really cool. Those are perfect actually for intro but if but I was kind of in a rush so if you guys want to go another way I just challenge you to find it on 123rf because all their pictures have the same look and feel I tried to find a dead body on 123rf they don't have any you know it's good actually it's an interesting group of people a lot of Malaysians but anyway so any other questions or comments we could end early which is historical. Geshla I think if we could put your pictures into a PowerPoint it would make it really fast for us to get them up when you want when you want to speak to them then everybody could have that PowerPoint afterwards as well to use. Well I'm totally that's kind of what I was hoping when I sent it to Kramer so it's a I'm fine with that yeah and I'm also fine with you guys using this recording looking at it again if you want to you don't have to I just ask that you don't put it up online because I you know when I say sarcastic stupid things you don't cut it out. Oh Geshehla I will send it to everybody but Atatul and his team down there they offered actually to get the transcript out to us like really fast as well. That's cool if you want to and you know it's my first try to be very honest I haven't looked at this stuff since 15 years ago and but I'm excited I think it's gonna be very popular and I think we have a very fun team of people and I don't have any pressure if you guys figure out you don't have time to do this I'm okay with that we'll deal with whoever does have time. But I ask you not to make a presentation without preparing it like crazy. Okay? Like, the only thing I don't want to see is bad preparation. You know, like, you should almost memorize what you're going to say. Practice it in the mirror, like, four or five times. Don't, don't, don't come to a Thursday ill prepared. That would really irritate me. I do have a question, Geshe, do you have some points that you could give all of us as the observers for the first time just to think about in terms of critique? Yeah, you know, DCI has a system in the college of, what is it, you're limited to 30 seconds, Connie? Or I don't know. No, five minutes, five minutes that they have to boil down from 70 minutes talk. I mean your critique, I don't know, I think, yeah I would just like to know how you guys feel because I'm also pretty old and I'm not, you know, I'm not 30 years old. I don't know what 30 year olds mean or how they think. Sometimes it's a mystery to me. So I'm very open to, you know, to your critique of this whole, we're kind of setting the tone for the platform forever, and we're going to be stuck with it for a long time. And by the way, I'm happy with the ages that we have. I think the average is 40 something, or even 50 something and i'm fine with that uh i think the yoga audience uh is is probably averages 50 years old i don't know uh but it's it's uh it's not all 20 year old girls anymore it's it's a lot of the hardcore yogis who are using it to stay alive are are my age or john's page, you know, stuff like that. So I'm happy with the mix we have. We'll let EJ be in there, just in case there's any young ladies want to watch. But that's, that's cool. Anybody else? Geshla, just in the chat, Nick said he's got a small, a little automator script, which makes PPTs very quickly. So I guess if you sent them to Nick, or Nick can send them to Ben, that might be very simple. Okay, I'm very happy to do that. I was trying to lay off of Nick, because he's got two girlfriends. Now he's got two girlfriends. I'll send my images to Nick on Monday. Stanley informs me that they need about a half hour to get the images installed. So I'll send them out on Monday by 1 30. How's that? Okay. To Nick, Connie and Ben. Okay. All right. And it is very distracting if it doesn't go smoothly. So and that that's going to be very important when we do the Saturdays. Yes. And even for Thursday, it's going to make your presentation look really poor if you have if everyone has to wait for an image to come up yeah right um then maybe i'll talk offline with stanley and um allison about how to to do the translation piece on saturday oh yeah that's totally up to you what we've been doing with the long rim by the way there's already i forget tim said they did a smart marketing thing that you might guys might want to think about. The Lom Rim, we did 25 episodes. They are free. So I think something like 1,500 people signed up for the three already. And then there's a fancy package you can buy for I don't know how much money oh there we go 500 registered to pay something and it was a really smart idea that Tim had and I don't know if you can you guys should be stealing everything Tim does okay I think and so and that way you can also feel less guilty about charging if people can get it for free also okay so but i leave it up to you guys i i would like to not be involved with all the mechanics of it i'd like to do the content part but i but i think we should make money you know and i don't think anyone's going to be make a full living off this website but at least it will help supplement your income and help pay for your yoga studio etc and and i think it will drive traffic to your yoga studio and your own online platform. You're all welcome to have your own online platform. You're all welcome to steal as much of this material as you want. You've got all of the original text and homeworks and blah, blah. Okay. Yeah, Geshe, we had some conversations about how to do it. Tim and I already did about how to do the same thing for this after the, once we start posting. Okay. and we and we can talk about that later i see it's 331 yep and i i i think you have 10 weeks to make those those decisions okay but you have you have 10 weeks to get the mechanics ironed out because it's going to take us 10 weeks to to finish the first course okay okay so is that uh should we say we'll wrap it up yep that's it i'll see you on Thursday at 2 o'clock and we will fry we will fry four people and you will smile through the whole thing it's a great opportunity thank you Geshele thanks Geshele thank you guys thank you thank you everybody goodbye bye Alex I'll send the recording out 谢谢大家 再见 再见