Asmita: The Ego of the Five Kesha's
In yogic philosophy (see II.6 of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali), the ego is essentially everything that blinds us from seeing our True 'Self.' This includes the false perception of seeing the mind and body as the True Self. The problem with identifying ourselves this way is that the mind and body are constantly changing, whereas the True Self (the purusha) remains constant. The labels that we create for ourselves are just a reflection of what the mind perceives.
Dharana
We can’t really do yoga or do meditation. Yoga is a natural state of union with the divine source and meditation is experiencing limitless joy; cosmic state of awareness. What we can do are practices which reveal to us our past impressions, pre-conceptions, expectations, and resistance.
From the Heart
Love is a word that is thrown around all the time sometimes mindlessly, sometimes meaningfully. But what if we planted the seed of something called ‘unconditional’ love in our hearts everyday? Unconditional love is a different kind of love. It is a practice unto itself. It is a way to show up in the world, to see ourselves in the eyes of a stranger, in the eyes of our worst enemy.
Vairagya
To practice anything means we stay with it for a while. We commit to sit with something and each time we have a reaction to it note your reaction and then let it go. Over and over we do this for as long as we need to. Over time what is no longer useful to us just falls away.