Habits Are Habitat for the False Self
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiWe often think of habits as small behaviors that either help us or hold us back. Yet in yoga, habit is understood on a much deeper level. A habit is not only about what you do, it is about how your energy is being used, repeated, and...
Mental Calories: How Unseen Thoughts Weigh You Down
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiToday, we are careful about what we feed our physical bodies. We read labels, count calories, take supplements. But we do not apply the same care to what we mentally and emotionally feed ourselves. The thoughts we think, the judgments we...
The Root Illusion: You Think You Are Seeing the World, But You Are Seeing Your Past
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji The ego-mind operates like a projector, not a camera. It doesn’t take in life objectively—it throws out old film reels onto the present moment, coloring your perception with past emotional memory. Every time you say, “I know what this...
The Yoga of Relationships: A Partners Day Retreat for Nurturing Connection
January 21, 2024 REGISTER NOW The Yoga of Relationships: A Partners Day Retreat for Nurturing Connection With Gurudev Shri Amritji, Bhavaani Deanna Gray, RYT-500, Bhairav Curt Gibson, RYT 200 and Nirali Lauren McCrea Sunday, January 21st, 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm ET...
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...
The Difference between Sentimentality and Compassion
By definition, sentimentality is action and thought colored by emotion rather than reason. It appears to be rational, yet is confined by personal conditioning by the past. Reason is then rooted to a person’s conditioning, rather than to reality. Therefore all...
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,...
Connecting to the Power of Prana through the Posture of Consciousness and Meditation in Motion
Posture of Consciousness The first part of the Posture of Consciousness is performed with integrative intention and deliberate action. Usually, when postures are practiced only as a physical discipline, you are facing fears that hold you back, not the body. In this...
The Esoteric Depths of Yoga Nidra
Everything you can see, feel, and experience is made up of energy. All matter, all experiences, all sensations, all life-giving and autonomic functions are carried out through energy’s innate intelligence in accordance with universal law. This means that the same...
Creating an Internal, Safe Space for Healing with Yoga Nidra
Trauma is injury to the nervous system. The impact of the event flooded our systems with too much, too fast, too soon. Without the right tools, time and space to make sense of the event and assimilate, the unresolved memory replays itself over and over again inside...