Tapas is effort that changes us. If we want transformation, we need to invest the effort. By making sacrifices for our ideal and giving time and effort, we begin living a harmonious life. Find out how tapas and sacrifice not only enrich your yoga practice, but can bring heaven into daily life.

Yogis use the term asuras to mean the moods, thoughts, words and actions which distract and take us away from higher consciousness.

The easiest way to have self-realization is to know shakti (creative energy,  life force). One of the most blessed ways to live your life and have a realization of shakti is to become sattvic (balanced) in your mind, thoughts and attitude.

Three forces, called the gunas, can impact your life in a negative or positive way every day.  The force that improves your self-concept, health and happiness, sattvas guna, can open you to a life of harmony, balance and openness to spirit.

The motives behind our actions are a main factor in our happiness. They serve as a primary indicator of the state of our hearts. Yogis use two tools to understand and refine their motives. Discover how upgrading your motives leads to peace, love and joy.

One of the definitions of yoga is skill in action. Yoga gives us tools to live happy, contented lives. However, we likely will also experience many challenges. Find out how you can turn these tests into opportunities to graduate into enlightenment.

Discover how you can live every day centered in Spirit. There is a reality beyond what our normal minds can think and what our hearts can feel. This reality can be experienced and lived in. It’s what yogis call enlightenment — a state of light, of higher consciousness, that never goes away.

In yoga we study the five yamas and niyamas (character traits) taught by Patanjali. While visiting a monastery in Hawaii, Ramakrishna Ananda learned five additional yamas and niyamas which he shares here. Discover how all ten yamas and niyamas will help you live connected with Spirit and open to receiving whatever you need — love, joy, abundance.

Sannyas is an attitude of renunciation, non-attachment to the material world, which greatly accelerates transformation. There are many opportunities to practice sannyas, the giving of yourself for the benefit of others, every day. Discover how a sannyas attitude frees the ego and enriches your life with love and ever-new joy.

Pranayama means control of the life force, usually by breathing practices. When our life force is harmonized and balanced through pranayama, we are more easily able to concentrate and experience interiorization or pratyahara during meditation. Pratyahara is the beginning of higher consciousness. Discover pranayams that will help you have deeper meditations and enjoy a more fulfilling life.