True Yoga: Practicing With the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment

When we have a peaceful mind, a truthful heart, and a balanced body, we can more easily approach the stillness that expands our consciousness beyond daily reality.

Yamas are moral qualities that are necessary for connection to our Soul nature.

Sad but true, humans rarely leave their comfort zone unless shaken from it.

Our enthusiasm is the fire that burns away any blocks within, such as fear or doubt.

Samadhi is the bliss of reuniting individual consciousness with the universal One Consciousness.

Listen inwardly to the body and intuition for what you feel is true. Sometimes you will know something before you see proof on the outside. Keep track of confirmations when they come so you can build trust in your inner guidance system.

By disconnecting from the constant pull of the senses, we develop subtle perception that utilizes the sixth sense of intuition, being able to see or feel things before they have occurred or as they are occurring elsewhere. This inner guidance system helps us with decisions, without lengthy external study or information gathering.

According to yoga philosophy, enduring happiness can only come when we stop identifying with the incessant thoughts and feelings of the personality self (small s). This “I, me, mine” perspective is called the ego and it is what we normally associate with and think of as who we are. The Sutras proclaim that all of our struggles in life are because w

The most important elements of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Buddha’s teachings, and the Bhagavad Gita were compiled by Sri Patanjali around two thousand years ago into the text we now refer to as the Yoga Sutras. This is the key text of Raja (Royal) Yoga, which describes the complete yoga path, a scientifically organized spiritual technology for