Pulling at Threads is a 4-week course to illuminate your life and practice through an exploration of Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras.

Whether you’re new to yoga philosophy or have been studying it for years, this series offers space to get curious, ask questions, and engage with these teachings in a way that is thoughtful, practical, contemporary, and personal.

• Four live lectures in a hybrid format: we’ll begin and end together in person, with two online sessions woven in between
• Practices to integrate the materials like seated meditation, yoga nidra and chanting
• Recordings of all four lectures, including both the in-person and virtual sessions, so you can revisit the material in your own time or still attend this course if you can't make any session live
• Pre-recorded foundation-setting lecture and slides so we can all arrive to our first session on the same page
• Practices to explore between sessions, helping you bring the teachings off the page and into your own experience
• Journal prompts and questions to consider between lectures, creating space to reflect, digest, and follow the threads that feel most relevant to you
• Further learning resources and links to support your curiosity beyond the sessions
• One month of access to NAPP, Taryn Diamond’s yoga nidra app featuring practices to support reflection, integration, and rest throughout the series
• A Samkhya Infographic, provided as a digital file that you can enjoy on screen or print for your own reference and study

• Explore selected sutras from across the pāds (literally, “feet”) of the Yoga Sutras
• Build a bigger-picture understanding of yoga philosophy and the problem yoga seeks to address
• Connect familiar practices like āsana, prāṇāyāma, and meditation with Patañjali’s language and reasoning
• Consider how these teachings show up in the terrain of your own life and practice
• Pair ancient wisdom with contemporary knowledge, lived experience, and the realities of today’s yoga landscape
• Engage in conversation, critical thinking, reflection, and embodied practice
• Explore yoga philosophy through an anti-oppressive and anti-racist lens
• Leave with new threads of inquiry to pull at long after the series ends

Each session pairs learning with chatting and practicing, creating space not only to take in information, but to question, connect, and explore together.

Taryn is a yoga teacher, nervous-system guide and lifelong student of movement and stillness. Based in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), she holds over a decade of yoga philosophy studies.

Taryn creates yoga philosophy curriculums for both international and local programs and has been known to trade philosophy lessons for astrological chart readings. Whether it's a full program or one-time course, Taryn aims to make the lofty world of yoga philosophy accessible, relevant and empowering.

In April of 2025, Taryn launched her yoga nidrā app called NAPP. It's through intentional rest that she continues to share the wealth and depth of yoga philosophy, all from the comfort of your own bed. 

Taryn is a certified Continuing Education Provider with the American Yoga Alliance. If you currently have a 200 hour certification with the YA, you are able to count this course as continuing education credits.