The Kleshas: Exploring What Entangles Us and What Frees Us
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Are you ready to look within for the true source of your unhappiness - with courage and compassion? To heal from internalized conditioning, habits, self-doubt? To connect more authentically with family and friends?
Start your journey here with guest Teacher Deborah Adele!
We want to be happy. We want to feel good. We want our lives to mean something. Yet, we often find ourselves mired in confusion, in nagging voices of self-doubt, disillusionment, and worry. We continually find ourselves mired in circumstances, limitations and cycles that we don’t know how to break free from. While seeking to feel good, we experience some form of mild discontent or all out misery. Why? What is it that keeps the happiness and fulfillment we seek such a temporary attainment at best?
Yogic philosophy answers this question in one word, the kleshas. The kleshas, or afflictions, explain the binding force that entangles us in doubt, confusion, worry, and unhappiness, seemingly stuck in our own limitations. They are yoga’s philosophical framework for understanding the discord in our lives and in our world. FMI link to Ms Adele’s website
I am so excited for you to meet author Deborah Adele here in person. If you loved her book Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice which is packed full of everyday life stories, reflection and practices for growing ourselves into the best humans we can be, you’ll love her new book The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness which continues that path.
Based on Deborah’s new book, this workshop will focus on the binding forces of the kleshas, what frees us from their entanglement, and the role the mind plays in this process.
Class will include short lectures with opportunities for reflection, experimentation and discussion. Saturday we invite you to share a BYO sack lunch together.
Dates: Nov 2-3
Times: Sat 9-12, 1-4 and Sunday 10-1
Location: Turning Light Center
Registration: $225 ($275 at the door)
Deborah Adele is an engaging, lively, and thought-provoking speaker who is not afraid to share stories from her own years of living and learning. She facilitates thoughtful and tangible ways of showing up to life in new ways, leaving participants with a dynamic combination of hope, inspiration, and practical knowledge. A longtime student of yoga philosophy, Deborah is the author of The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice (now translated into 7 languages!) and The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness.
“…Deborah Adele has condensed years of practice, learning and teaching into the down-to-earth, informative and inspirational book. The personal experiences and the reflections she offers will encourage you to take the lessons off the page and into your everyday life.” B Gibbs
Read a brief article/review with book excerpt here.
The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness The best place to purchase Deb’s books is through her website Both books and the audio options are there with push-button ordering – plus you can read more about the topic if you like. Her books are also available at your favorite bookstore.
PS: I am also excited about an optional “continuation” as a monthly group (6-8 months) with weekly thought-provoking questions for reflection based on Deborah’s book and the reflection process she suggests. As with Yamas & Niyamas Study Groups held here in the past, these groups are a life-changing means to apply what we learn in this weekend workshop into the stream of our daily lives. Groups meet monthly, with group posting in between as we reflect on a specific question as we live our daily lives.
If you are interested in this study group (starting in Jan 2025) – please email me at Darcy@turninglight.org