Bringing Yoga to Life

We may notice that while life has been living itself through us, we have been absent from the experience. Where

We may notice that while life has been living itself through us, we have been absent from the experience.

unnecessary tension and the past. And we learn to rest in the pauses in between this arising and dissolving cycle.

We learn to inhale completely and open to new experience. We learn to exhale completely and let go of unne

We find that the only thing that is unchanging in this core of ourselves is the radiantly alive and constantly vibrating pulse of life. When we arrive in this place, we realize there is no center and no periphery, that we are in fact infinite and limitless.

As infuriating as it is, we humans seem to derive far greater motivation from pain than from joy, and it is this pain that brings us to practice

The word nostalgia has its root in the phrase “pain for home,” noste meaning family or home and algia, pain. The consequence of being in exile is a growing sense of nostalgia, a longing, a pain for home. It is this longing that impels us to find some way of living in which we will be welcomed back into the family of belonging.

it is our life and that there is only one person who can do the work.

Somewhere underneath bingeing, starving, exercising, drinking, hallucinating, climaxing, and purchasing, we are desperately seeking a way home to our self. The longer we have been in exile from this true self, the more desperate the yearning and, often, the more desperate the means of attaining pleasure.

While the quest for happiness is not new, the cultural context in which it takes place is. Never before in history have humans been bombarded so relentlessly with advertising and media propaganda, which exploit their unconscious spiritual desires to serve the gods of consumerism and greed.