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Habits Are Habitat for the False Self

by Gurudev | August 22, 2025 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

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

by Gurudev | August 14, 2025 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

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

by Gurudev | August 7, 2025 | The Guru's Blog | 0 Comments

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...

Prana Awakening: Experience the Power of Energetic Transmission

Prana Awakening: Experience the Power of Energetic Transmission

by Garrett La Valley | May 15, 2019 | The Guru's Blog

For the past fifty-three years, Yogi Amrit Desai has been totally dedicated to awakening the power of spirit and the flowering of divinity that dwells within all beings. He embodies the rare capacity to impart the ancient secrets of energetic...

Self-Discovery as the Essential Focus of a Yoga Practice

by Garrett La Valley | Jan 16, 2018 | The Guru's Blog

I AM YOGA: Integrative Amrit Method Yoga: An approach to the practice of yoga that uses self-discovery as its essential focus. The practice of I AM Yoga is shifting from your head to your heart, from your mind to prana, from thinking to feeling, from doing to being,...

Yogi Amrit Desai returns to India

by Garrett La Valley | Mar 31, 2017 | Happening Now at AYI, The Guru's Blog

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...

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