Meditation can become a thrilling, exciting journey. Yoga can show you where you are and how to proceed toward higher consciousness. One of the main signs of progress is growing love and joy. Explore the advice of yoga masters.

Yoga is a direct, personal experience which fosters harmony between body, mind and spirit. It cultivates a growing connection between individual and Infinite Consciousness, allowing one to go beyond false ideas and gain an inner awareness of soul and Spirit.

Yoga provides many ways to contact the soul and receive its guidance. This video continues the exploration of practices leading to soul awareness and higher states of spiritual absorption. The soul is continually seeking to reveal itself. You can sense its love, assistance, wisdom and comfort any time, day or night.

Yogis have discovered that we are, in essence, souls living in a world of Spirit. The ego (false sense of self), however, often makes us feel separate from others and from God. Progress in yoga happens as we develop new habit patterns. You can live in oneness, wholeness, beauty and joy as you grow in your yoga practice.

As we practice, yoga improves our life and the lives of those around us. When we give yoga a chance, it will support us. Discover how great souls have expressed love and concern for humanity throughout the ages. Explore signs that you are being spiritually nourished. Allow Spirit to flow through you and improve the lives of those near you.

Awakening comes as a result of meditation, love, devotion and God’s grace. It is called the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Comforter you have been yearning for suddenly floods your being with love, joy and admittance to the spiritual world. Sri Yukteswar (The Holy Science) beautifully describes the five stages of the heart one passes through toward awakening. Understanding these states can guide your development as you move from level to level.

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.