How to Human:

Do you like books? Do you like reading books and then talking to your friends about them? We have we got a treat for you!

Every Wednesday at 7 PM, join us for How to Human: An Eight Limbs Book Club.

Together we’ll explore what it means to be human. How should we live? What is the self? Why do we suffer? What does it mean to be free? What do we owe one another—and the world around us?

How to Human is our way of exploring those questions through yoga, Buddhism, philosophy, neuroscience, social justice, ecology, literature, and more. We'll read ancient texts alongside modern voices, put very different ideas into conversation, and see what they might have to teach us about the strange, messy, wonderful business of being alive.

An Eight Limbs Book Club

LeVar Burton approved. Probably. Don’t ask him.

Oh, also, it’s free. No need to sign up or book a class. Anyone can join!

Svadhyaya, the fourth of the five Niyamas (ethical guidelines) in Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras, means “self-study.” How to Human is svadhyaya in book-club form: a year of reading, questioning, and looking a little more closely at ourselves and the world we inhabit. 12 months, 12 books, 12 big questions about life and how best to live it.

Svadhyaya In Practice

The books!

Book #1: The Bhagavad Gita

The Question: How Should We Live?

Before it became a foundational text of yoga philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita was a story about a guy having a really, really bad day.

Arjuna is a warrior standing on a battlefield, facing the horrifying prospect of fighting people he loves. He doesn't know what to do. So he asks Krishna.

What follows is one of the great philosophical conversations in human history: How should we act when there are no easy answers? How do we live with uncertainty, responsibility, desire, fear, and the consequences of our choices?

Come meet Arjuna at the worst moment of his life—and see what a 2,000-year-old conversation has to say about yours.

How to Human begins September 9 at 7 PM.

Relax. It’s just philosophy. 😉