This 60-hour course offers an in-depth look at the yogic model of the mind and the practice and application of meditation. The yoga tradition emphasizes that learning to be still and calm is a universal requirement for the human being. Our normal state of agitation and unrest does not allow us to experience our underlying nature of immense joy and happiness. This joy exists in the present moment once we have learned to release the mind from its tendency to dwell in grooves of its old habit patterns, or imaginations of the future.