YFYI — Yoga For Your Intellect

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.    James opens the show asking Joseph how we begin the task of changing our habits. They talk about the important of consistency of habit and thought, and delineate between mind and intellect.  If you enjoy this episode, look forward to episode 10 dropping in a week.   Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.    On the 2nd installment of our Clubhouse Conversations, James and Joseph talk about Chapter 18, verses 37 and 38 of the Bhagavad Gita. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.    On the 1st ever YFYI Clubhouse Conversation, Joseph and James discuss stress and agitation, and what we've learned about it over thousands of years in terms of managing and reducing stress. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.    In this episode, James and Joseph dive deeper into Shravana, Manana, Nididhyasana, the 3 pillars of Vedantic practice, and focus on the embracing the ability to accept that "I don't know". Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. In today's episode, James and Joseph reflect on their recent trip to india.  This was the first time James had ever been to the ashram and he was blown away by the beauty and bliss. Joseph explains why it is the perfect place to reflect and study philosophies.  They speak about the dinners with Swami and how the conversations were mind blowing and helped shape their views on Vedanta. To conclude the episode, James and Joseph explain mind, body and intellect. The mind is what must be subdued. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/

YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta. Would you like to experience a live YFYI for you and your team? Email yogaforyourintellect@gmail.com for details. About the hosts: James Beshara is a world-renowned founder and startup investor (ranked as high as the #2 global venture investor by investment platforms like AngelList) and has been invited to speak at places such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and The World Bank. Joseph Emmett has been a student of Vedanta for over 25 years, teaching this “perennial philosophy” around the world, with over a decade spent at the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India under the guidance and teaching of acclaimed Vedanta philosopher and author, Swami A. Parthasarathy. In addition to weekly podcast episodes, the hosts, James and Joseph, also host a weekly Clubhouse conversation on Friday mornings with open Q&A (search for the ‘Yoga For Your Intellect’ club within the Clubhouse app), as well as in-person retreats in Southern California during the year. Would you like to dive in deeper? Our reading recommendation is to dive into reading perhaps the clearest and most complete work on Vedanta of the 20th century — ‘Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities’ by A. Parthasarathy which can be found on Amazon.  We also encourage you to subscribe to these conversations if you find them valuable for more weekly insights to the perennial philosophy. Resources: Swami Parthasarathy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/swamiji Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/86-vedanta-treatise-the-eternities Bhagavad Gita:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/books-and-media/12-books/82-bhagavad-gita Vedanta Academy:  https://www.vedantaworld.org/about/vedanta-academy Joseph Emmett:  https://www.vedantahouston.org/josephji James Beshara: https://jjbeshara.com/about/