Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?

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...

Your Nervous System Was Designed to Recover

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...

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By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active, where the body restores itself without effort and the mind is no longer organizing experience through reaction, comparison, or memory.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

There is a reason stress is at epidemic levels in the West and I believe this is why: We don’t know how to stop. Our waking hours have taken over our sleeping hours. Even our sleep and rest is in service of doing more, rather than being more. We don’t sleep to be...