The Master Key of Yoga: Uniting Hatha and Raja for Embodied Liberation
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji The path of yoga is more than physical movement. It is a journey from doing to being, from effort to awareness. In the article below, Gurudev Shri Amritji shares how Hatha and Raja Yoga unite to unlock the deeper healing and spiritual...
Living the Truth: Integrative Yoga and the End of Emotional Separation
Integrative Yoga and the End of Emotional Separation Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji When you bring your integrative intention into every interaction, no matter where you go, what you do, or who you are with, you reinforce the inner work of yoga through the outer...
The Hidden Split Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji The Futility of Mental Control in Meditation Many seekers approach meditation with the idea that they must control the mind: pushing away thoughts, silencing mental noise, and achieving a kind of inner perfection through effort. But...
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...
Yogi Amrit Desai returns to India
Headline: American Yogi, Amrit Desai, brings American students to yoga seminar at Malav Kripalu Samadhi Mandir Summary: Yogi Amrit Desai, one of few living closest disciples of Swami Kripalu who has taken his teaching to over 40 countries holding seminar here at Malav...
Return to India: The Legacy of an Ancient Lineage
Malav Ashram is a Holy Site in the heart of Gujarat where the famous saint, Swami Kripalvandandaji spent over twelve years in Sadhana. Before his Mahasamadhi, he asked his disciples to be buried in a specific field located in Malav due to the sacredness and serenity...
Read moreChange is not just the force of destruction but also the force of creation. Underlying the forces of opposites is the integration that is inherent in change. Change has neither ups nor downs. It is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. All opposites become one through change.
Choiceless Awareness: the Key to Non-reactive Presence
Knowing yourself is not the same as knowing about yourself. Whatever you know about yourself is a mental construct. Your entire past, your age, profession, acquired conditioned thoughts, feelings, self-image and karma body with all its content is not you. You are the...
Read moreYour ego, is constantly creating and re-entertaining your pre-programmed perceptions of the past. This impedes the flow of energy throughout the chakras, and deprives the body of the self-healing, self-balancing power of prana.
Manifest vs. Unmanifest Reality
You can’t enhance or diminish what is present. You can only acknowledge and embrace it. But ego-mind will fight with, run from or attempt to modify what is present. The mind, conditioned by social norms and personal likes and dislikes, lives in dualistic conflicts in...
From Crisis to Consciousness
The greatest opportunity for transformation as individuals and as a planet comes in moments of crisis. While times of prosperity and stability promote only superficial shifts, crisis shakes the foundation of safety and comfort we are accustomed to, calling for...