Applying Yoga
Music Video Production
Read the steps dedicated to Contemplation, Prayer Space, Manifestation Goals.
Yoga Sutras
of Patañjali
Patañjali divided his Yoga Sutras into four portions
(Sanskrit: Pada), as follows:
(1) Samadhi Pada contemplation
(2) Sadhana Pada practice
(3) Vibhuti Pada accomplishments
(4) Kaivalya Pada absoluteness
Portion vis-à-vis Picture
Yoga Philosophy of Production
draw from three distinct spheres
from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE
(1) one or more Samkhya traditions
(2) one or more Buddhist traditions
(3) an emerging philosophical Yoga tradition that is compiling various older ascetic and religious strands of speculation
Consciousness as Pulsation
concentration / regulation
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- pin-pointing, emphasizing, holding space for certain themes, events, or experiences for both inspiration and discovering areas within consciousness to explore and expand upon (whether for self or collective) at first
02 Dhyāna
meditation / contemplation
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- realizing, witnessing, understanding, establishing certain patterns and cycles to work around and work through or work upon and work with to create a cohesion between audio and video for motion picture
Dhyāna is the seventh limb of eight elucidated by Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga or Raja Yoga.
A steady, continuous flow of attention directed towards the same point or region.
03 Samādhi
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- listening, accepting, releasing, absolving into the sound, the experience, the memory, the place, the area of inspiration, such as the muse for creation, which occurs when one is open for transformation
04 Saṃyama
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- coming to fruition, feeling the wholesome nature of creation, beyond the accomplishment of putting the connections together, finding how all is related and meaningful, and why the creation came to existence
Production as Transformation
i. reliable perception
pramāṇa (correct means of accurate knowledge and to truths)
Six most widely recognized pramanas:
Pratyakṣa (evidence/perception)
Anumāna (inference)
Upamāna (comparison and analogy)
Arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances)
Anupalabdhi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof)
Śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts)
applied in motion picture production
- considering variant perspectives to produce the vision
pramāṇa (प्रमाण) is where "the seer" or puruṣa (pure consciousness, the Self) abides in itself
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
One of the core concepts in Indian epistemology, pramanas are one or more reliable and valid means by which human beings gain accurate, true knowledge. The focus of pramana is how correct knowledge can be acquired, how one knows, how one does not know, and to what extent knowledge pertinent about someone or something can be acquired.
viveka (insight, discriminative knowledge, judgement)
In Buddhist literature, the term viveka is used in the sense of separation and is classified into three kinds: bodily seclusion (kāya-viveka), mental purification (citta-viveka), and final liberation (avadhi-viveka). In Yoga philosophy, it is sometimes described as the shifting of awareness from the object of perception to the power of perception itself (puruṣa).
applied in motion picture production
- signifying the purpose and meaning of the production
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
In the context of Sāṅkhya and Yoga philosophy, a primary meaning of viveka is the discrimination or knowing the distinction between prakṛti (material nature) and puruṣa (Self or pure consciousness).
iii. interdependent being
tattva (element, sense, state, relationality, reality)
The Essences, the five elements, the senses of knowledge and action too came into being then. All these principles originating from Prakṛti are insentient, but not the Puruṣa.
applied in motion picture production
- producing through the interconnectedness of creation and narrative of the motion picture
tattva (तत्त्व) refers to a “cosmic principle,” where there are constituents of prakṛti (material nature)
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
kaivalya (isolation, distinction, stability)
That means the isolated element (puruṣa) is distinct from the three guṇas—sattva, rajas, and tamas.
applied in motion picture production
- reflecting on the influence and experience of the production by the individual, pair, or group
