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...
We Are Here To Be An Expression of Source – Kamini Desai at Sedona Yoga Festival
Full Video Transcript: So, I want to continue on this theme that we were talking about - which is - Why are we here? And I want you to imagine I usually like to draw pictures, but you can draw a picture in your head. I want you to imagine...
Self-Discovery as the Essential Focus of a Yoga Practice
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,...
Gentle 60-minute Yoga Class Anyone Can Do (Chair Yoga)
Welcome Veda’s Gentle 60-minute class! Please sit in a comfortable chair, without arms, to begin your practice. We will move from seated relaxations and seated warm-up stretches to carefully guided gentle Amrit Yoga postures. If you plan to stand up for these, you may...
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...