The great illusion

10 min Yoga philosophy Intermediate with Mike Bloch-Levermore

About this session

A contemplative talk, including an exercise and a meditation about the fourth movement of the mind. Your mind can be mistaken, but what if it’s wrong about everything? Try a simple illusion and hear two viewpoints on māyā, the idea that everything we witness is either a nasty trick or a playful illusion.

This audio series is for you who are interested in yoga philosophy, and how the mind works and affects you in your behavior and everyday life. If you are a yoga teacher these talks and exercises can give you a new perspective to approach yoga philosophy, both in your own practice and in your teaching.

This is part 5 of this series of contemplative talks. We recommend you to listen to the episodes in the correct order to get the most out of them. Listen to all the talks and the introduction: Watch your mind move.

Your instructor

Mike Bloch-Levermore

Interaktiv filosofi · 14 classes

Mike holds interactive philosophy lectures with a light-hearted and approachable style, combining a humorous approach with the latest academic knowledge. In this way, Mike attempts to make the complexities of yoga’s history and philosophy more understandable, memorable and ultimately more entertaining, through games, role-play, cartoons and contemplative meditations. Mike is originally from the UK, but now lives in the countryside of Midtsjælland, Denmark. He also speaks Danish well, and can most often be found chatting about philosophy somewhere in the Nordics. Outside of the shala, Mike has traveled extensively, working as an expedition leader with charities and youth in South America, China and Africa. In Copenhagen, he taught kayaking, and worked with a Danish business university, before full-time following his passion to help people figure out their philosophies.

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