The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life

By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active, where the body restores itself without effort and the mind is no longer organizing experience through reaction, comparison, or memory.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

Yoga: Where Concentration Ends and Meditation Begins

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,...

Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?

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...

Why Should We Meditate?

In the ordinary waking state, every thought is charged by your emotional reactions. Every perception is distorted by your anticipation and expectation of what is present. So everything you perceive at any given moment is distorted by personal biases, fears and...

Conscious Prosperity

Prosperity cannot be measured by possessions. It can be measured only by who you are in the process of attaining them. Most people ignore what they do to themselves because they’re driven exclusively by what they think they want from the world or others. They cling to...

Liberation from Relationship Addiction

There are two types of addictions: attaching to pleasure and avoiding pain. Sex falls into both, and that is what makes it such a powerful force. It can numb us from experiencing what is present and distort our entire perception of reality. When sexual energies are...

I AM Yoga® Meditation In Motion

Human beings are born with the unique ability to materialize their thoughts into forms. The mind is an evolutionary human gift that emerged from the subconscious. The subconscious animal body functions through instincts and is present in the physical body as the...

Patanjali and I Am Yoga® | A Synthesis for Oneness

More people than ever before are ready for a spiritual dimension and depth to the practice of yoga. This is reflected dramatically in the changing themes of today’s books, magazines, professional journals, popular seminars and many systems of personal growth,...