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By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active, where the body restores itself without effort and the mind is no longer organizing experience through reaction, comparison, or memory.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: Where Concentration Ends and Meditation Begins

When to Consciously & Intuitively Let Go of Techniques By Gurudev Shri Amritji Meditation does not begin by forcing stillness; it begins with concentration, the narrowing of focus on the object of attention. While you are holding the asana, you practice directed,...

Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?

The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...
The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering

The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering

Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Guru Purnima is a sacred day in the yogic tradition, observed on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashadha (June–July). It has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time to honor the guru—the spiritual teacher and inner guide...

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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...

Change 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.

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