One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of oneness, while the...

How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The connection between emotions and illness is well documented and established. Many tension based illnesses can be traced to traumatic, emotionally charged events that disrupt the balancing power and self...

By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active, where the body restores itself without effort and the mind is no longer organizing experience through reaction, comparison, or memory. In...

When to Consciously & Intuitively Let Go of Techniques By Gurudev Shri Amritji Meditation does not begin by forcing stillness; it begins with concentration, the narrowing of focus on the object of attention. While you are holding the asana, you practice directed,...

The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...

By Gurudev Shri Amritji The chakra system is not only a map of energy centers, it is a map of the relationship between attention and prana, the life force moving through the body. When attention is constantly pulled into stress, desire, fear, and reaction, energy...

Worst habit is living for what comes next instead of being fully present now. The mind stays focused on the next result, the next solution, or the next sign that everything is finally in place. Over time, that constant reaching pulls you away from the present and...

So much of our stress begins long before anything happens. We carry a picture of how life should go, what our work should bring, and what effort should guarantee. Then when life moves another way, we call it failure. In this teaching on Bhagavad Gita 2:47, Gurudev...

Why do the same painful patterns keep returning, even when the people and situations look different? Gurudev reminds us that what repeats in our lives is often not the outer event, but the inner reaction we carry. When old memory, fear, or hurt stays unconscious, it...

Most relationship pain is often the gap between what we expected and what actually showed up. Expectations can sound reasonable, but they can also pull us out of the moment. They put love in the future, as if it were something we have to earn or secure. In today’s...