Sadhana

Sadhana is a daily practice to connect with what is. For five years I have been committed to a daily practice using different yoga tools, from more gross to more subtle practices. I have gone in and out, stepped out and came back. I have been fully disciplined and at times I have been making many excuses, but a thread remained, an internal call to keep coming back again and again.

Why Sadhana? Why do a daily practice?

The Sadhana is a mirror of how I live life. It is not about the physical practice and doing a bunch of breathing exercises or kryias. It is about how the mind is coming up on all those moments. Am I present? Am I fully present? Is my mind jumping here and there? Am I in my body? Am I aware in the present moment? Am I rushing constantly into the future (even inside the practice itself)? It is about observing how I am relating to the present moment. How is my mind in that very moment, and it is so beautiful to see how it is a simple mirror of how my mind is in the day to day life. What happens in the mat is also what happens right after and during the day.

Sadhana is there to see clear what is happening, what is real. If I wake up and go straight into my day without the practice, then I am just taking the shape of the contents of my mind throughout the day. Most days without even being aware of it. Maybe I live rushing into the next moment or I am doing something while thinking about something else (or many other things at the same time). When I follow through the commitment to do the Sadhana, even if it is short, I am showing up. I am creating space to see what is happening in my mind, to feel my body. It is a sacred space for seeing what is there and connecting with something deeper inside. It is not to feel great or relax, it just brings me clarity.

It is a gap that gets created to step out of the crazy train of daily living. Not to escape, but to be more and more present. Not to add more stuff, neither to learn something new, neither to become better in any way, rather it is to let go of unnecessary things. To feel and be light, to move through the day with awareness. For the possibility of being aware in many moments throughout the day that is unfolding. To be as I am.

Om Swastiastu 🙏🏻