Classical Pranayam, Philosophy & Meditation

Over 5,000 years ago, the ancient seers of India asked a question that still echoes in every yoga class, every meditation cushion, every moment of stillness you have ever touched: what is the mind — and is it possible to be free of its suffering?

In this two-hour workshop, we go to the root of that question. Not as philosophy for its own sake, but as a living inquiry into your own experience — right now, in this body, in this breath.

Using Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as our map, we move through classical pranayama, deep philosophy teaching, and guided meditation — arriving at the oldest and most radical insight yoga has to offer: that what you have been looking for has never been absent. The stillness was always there, beneath the mind's stories.

"Yoga is the complete stilling of the turnings of the mind."
— Patanjali, Yoga Sutra I:2

Led by Manish Pole

YOGA & MEDITATION EDUCATOR SINCE 2003 · 

CO-FOUNDER, AWAKEN SCHOOL

With a background in Psychology, Literature and Journalism, Manish holds philosophical depth and human warmth in the same hand — drawing living connections between Patanjali, the Buddha, modern neuroscience, and the person sitting in front of him. A Keynote Speaker at World Expo 2020 and wellness conferences globally, he co-founded Total Yoga — with schools across India, the USA, UK, UAE, Singapore and New Zealand — before founding the Awaken School in 2023.

He believes in the power of a genuine mentorship journey to navigate the inner path — ancient wisdom and modern research, held together without dogma and without contradiction.