It is important to know that we are spiritual beings in order to function well and be truly content. We miss one of the main joys of life if we don’t know our true nature. Though spiritual practices, we come into contact with Spirit and begin to realize our essence.

In the view of yoga, we keep reincarnating until we learn to love. The great yogi Sri Ramakrishna taught that love and devotion are the keys to experiencing and relating to the Divine. The Bible contains hundreds of passages about love. Yoga practice helps to release the emotional chains which bind us and to discover the heart’s true feeling — unconditional love. Enjoy a meditative exercise to stimulate the love which is already within you.

As human beings we are called to awaken to our spiritual nature and interplay with the Infinite Spirit. Through yoga we learn to calm the mind and heart to discover the true self. We find that life is a lila (a divine drama) and that Spirit would like to move and express through us. Playing our part consciously leads to a fulfilled life brimming with joy.

Ernest Holmes explains that the Lord is the First Cause out of Whom the whole universe is created. Yogis turn to the First Cause with their needs and problems. They enter the stillness, opening themselves and their concerns to the goodness and light of Spirit. Receive more goodness and love in your life by allowing spiritual light to move and express.

Yogis seek to become still on physical, mental and emotional levels. Stillness brings an awareness of the light which comes from the soul and Spirit. Abiding in the light brings blessings, healings and revelations, as well as change and transformation. Enter into stillness and allow the light of Spirit to shine in your life.

As we grow in yoga, we find we want to serve. The love and light of Spirit within us naturally seeks to help others. Our developing attunement with soul and Spirit reveals how we can best express. Explore ways in which you can contribute to a better, happier world through your loving service.

Joy is the essence of awakening to your spiritual nature. It comes through the practice all yoga paths, growing through stages of bliss, ecstasy and arriving at ananda, ever-new joy. It transforms and empowers, as well as thrills and delights. Discover how you can cultivate joy through yoga. You can live in ever-new, never-boring, progressive joy.

Spirit, in the yogic view, expresses as love, light and bliss. You can sense these attributes and assimilate them into your being as you grow in spiritual awareness. Explore yoga practices which open you to higher awareness. Enjoy passages from great scriptures including the Bible, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. You can live in the love, light and bliss of Spirit.

The Infinite Spirit lives and expresses in each of us as the soul. It sustains our heartbeat, breath and consciousness. Soul contacts improve our life and reinforce our progress. Ultimately, we center and live from our true self. Discover the characteristics of soul awareness. You can live in ongoing states of happiness, harmony, peace and bliss.

In the view of yoga, it is the eternal soul which expresses as light and consciousness through our thoughts, feelings and physical body. The confusion and delusion of maya, however, often keep us unaware of the soul. Yogis seek to discover the reality beyond maya and have developed many wonderful practices to contact soul and Spirit. Your life can be enriched and fulfilled by knowing and abiding in the immortal, blissful true self.