Two thousand years ago yoga was built to train attention, steadiness and letting go. Those are exactly the skills a phone, a deadline and a short night take from you. I teach the philosophy plainly, and the practices that make it stick: breath, strength, flexibility, and yes, the handstand.
“Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ.” Yoga is the settling of the mind's turnings.
The definition. Everything on this site serves it.
What yoga was built for
The postures came late. The original work was attention, steadiness and non-attachment, trained daily until they became character. Here is how the old words map onto a modern day.
“Abhyāsa-vairāgyābhyāṁ tan-nirodhaḥ.”
Yoga Sūtra 1.12
Steady practice, and letting go of the result. That is the whole method, and it is the opposite of how most of us live: sporadic effort, obsessive attachment to outcomes. Every program on this site is built as a short daily practice with a result you are asked not to chase. The handstand is simply the most honest teacher of it.
Dhāraṇā · attention
Dhāraṇā is placing the mind on one point and keeping it there. The modern mind is pulled forty times an hour. Training single attention is the first and most practical skill yoga offers.
Practised in: breath counting, drishti, balance drills.
Sthira-sukham · steadiness and ease
Sūtra 2.46 asks for a posture that is steady and easy. Not forced, not slack. The same quality you want in a hard conversation or a long week.
Practised in: long holds, flexibility work, seated stillness.
Vairāgya · non-attachment
Care about the work, release the outcome. It is the hardest teaching and the most freeing. You cannot white-knuckle a handstand or a life.
Practised in: falling drills, breath retention, rest days kept.
Learn the philosophy
No sign-up wall for the thinking part. A short course by email, a quiz to test what you know, and the talks on YouTube.
Free email course
One sūtra a week. The Sanskrit, a plain translation, what it meant then, what it means on a Tuesday now, and one five-minute practice to try before the next email.
Quiz
Ten questions on philosophy and history: the Sūtras, the Gītā, the eight limbs, Hatha, the people who carried yoga west. Score, learn one thing per answer, challenge a friend.
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Philosophy talks, breath sessions and full classes on the @yogalifetravel channel. The first class should always be free.
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Each program trains one quality from the philosophy through the body. Pick the quality you need most. Four weeks, twenty to forty minutes a day, lifetime access, 14-day guarantee.
Trains attention & letting go
Upside down, the mind cannot wander and the body cannot lie. Three programs from wall holds to a freestanding press.
Trains steadiness & patience
Hips, hamstrings, spine, splits. Slow, honest work that rewards the people who stop forcing.
Trains the breath
Pranayama and meditation that fit a working day and a restless head. Three weeks, PDF and audio.
Trains the habit
Abhyāsa made concrete: one fixed daily practice, breath, cold, and the habit that outlasts motivation.
Also as PDFs: Manifest Potential, strength and a morning routine · Yogi Gut Health, shatkarma and an Ayurvedic plate. All PDFs →
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The two skill paths
Three four-week programs each, building on one another. Buy one rung or the whole path.
Trains dhāraṇā, one-pointed attention, and vairāgya, falling without fear.
Separately €167 · save €28 on the path · videos + PDF plan
Join the waitlist →Trains sthira-sukham, steadiness with ease, and the patience to stop forcing.
Separately €157 · save €28 on the path · videos + PDF plan
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When you want the philosophy and the practice built around your life, not a template. Online, from anywhere. Pick a time, pay, done.
Weekly video sessions on your goal, handstand, flexibility or a daily practice that holds, with a plan for the days in between and video feedback on your drills.
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I grew up with yoga as philosophy before I knew it as exercise. Later came Hatha and shatkarma in India, then martial arts, calisthenics and Ayurveda. The handstand taught me more about the Sūtras than any seated hour: where the mind goes, the body follows, and what you cannot let go of, you cannot hold.
I teach the old ideas in plain language, and the practices that make them real in a working week. Online because that is where most of you are, on YouTube because the first class should be free.
Not sure?
No. The Yoga Sūtras are a manual for the mind, not a creed. I teach them the way you would teach a method: what the text says, what it meant, what it does when you try it. You can hold any belief or none.
With the free sūtra course, and with Calm Mind if you want the body involved. Both ask for ten to twenty minutes a day and no equipment.
Yes, free and without a card. After week eight you stay on the weekly newsletter unless you unsubscribe, which takes one click. There is no upsell inside the lessons.
Because it is the most honest teacher of attention and letting go. Upside down you cannot pretend to concentrate, and you cannot hold on. The handstand path is in production; join the waitlist to hear when it opens.
Write to info@pratiushsharma.com within 14 days of buying a program and you get the money back, no questions. German law also gives you a statutory right of withdrawal; see the withdrawal page.
The site and the sūtra course are in English and German. The PDF programs are in English first; German editions follow.
Eight weeks of the oldest ideas about attention and letting go, one email at a time, free. The programs are there when you want the body to join in.
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