Learning Yoga made Easy

Rajendra the mighty elephant shows that focus and calm come from fully engaging in one task. Cassandra the bee learns to stay present and control urges.

The turtle and two swans use a stick to reach a distant lake during a drought, but the turtle must remain focused or risk a fatal fall.

Identify signs of short attention spans and distraction in children, and transform a wandering mind into focused attention by practicing mindful listening and heeding trusted advice.

Explore how a dull, lethargic mind signals danger and potential depression in children. Learn yoga's view on mood states and how to foster an engaged, hopeful mindset.

The hare outwits a merciless lion, saving jungle animals through focused planning and clever bravery, while the lion meets his downfall.

Develop a focused and concentrated mindset to overcome difficulties and stay calm under pressure, enabling students to find solutions and think outside the box.

Learn how moral mind control cultivates a unified mind with object and subject, enabling one to cross obstacles and reach liberation and elevation in yoga.

Understand how yoga assigns responsibility for suffering to ignorance and kleshas, including ego, attachment, hatred, insecurity, and fear, creating obstacles that hinder goals and can be overcome through yogic practice.

Shankar trusts his mongoose to guard his son while he goes to king's court; mongoose kills a cobra, returns bloodied, and Shankar kills the mongoose, realizing the boy was safe.

Recognize how ignorance clouds knowledge and meaning, including the god-related sense, and explore the true self to grasp life’s purpose and death’s meaning, avoiding lifelong suffering.

An old tiger lures travellers with a glittering gold bangle, while a greedy traveller approaches, ignores the tiger's plea for water, and the tiger kills him.

Explore how excessive attachment drives habitual behaviors and greed, with examples like nail biting, tongue sucking, and hand washing, and understand obsessive compulsive disorder as an attachment-related idea.

The frog king recruits the cobra to exact revenge on nagging relatives, luring him to a secret well where countless frogs are eaten, revealing the costs of vengeance.

Depict monkeys and birds under a banyan tree in the rain, where birds mock the soaked monkeys, who retaliate by destroying nests and eggs, then regret their actions.

Avoid the company of common people to stay on the yoga path, shielding from lust, greed, ego, and hatred, and maintain steady practice.

Outwit a mighty, cruel elephant with sparrows and their allies—woodpecker, fly, and frog—delivering a lifelong lesson.

Four men pursue wealth from copper to gold, greed over wisdom, as the man with the veil warns that only humility guards treasure on the Himalayas.

Promote moral self-study, studying scriptures, and introspection as the best policy through careful decision making, avoiding hasty conclusions.

A skilled weaver learns through destiny and two merchants that true joy comes from doing one’s duty without expecting reward, choosing selfless sharing over wealth.

Learn two key points from the river story: perform duties without attachment to outcomes and surrender the fruits of actions to the divine, as a skilled yogi acts.