“Life is but a dream”

  How do you know that something is a dream? During the dream, it all feels so very real. You seem to see, hear, taste, touch, feel, speak, move… and yet when you wake up, you realize that none of that actually happened. That whole time, you were asleep in your bed.   Now how’s … [Read more…]

Week 8: Isvarapranidhana

  This is the last of our eight-week series on the “Deeper Dimensions of Yoga.” This week, we explore “isvarapranidhana”, which can mean either surrender or devotion, or both! Here, Patanjali (author/compiler of the Yoga Sutras) is referring specifically to surrender or devotion to God. But even if God is not a concept we relate … [Read more…]