Ishvara Pranidhana

This is the practice of committing oneself to a qualified spiritual master in order to learn, hold, perfect and pass on the lineage.

Ishvara Pranidhana is following under a master of what you are trying to accomplish. It is being beyond one form, yet expressed through all forms.

Ishvara Pranidhana is an offering - a devotion to something bigger than oneself. This could be God, the universe, many Gods, or nature. It is finding someone who is an expert and humbly learning from them.

Ishvara Pranidhana is The Offering of The Chapati - while staying at an ashram* in North India, we spent a lot of time in the kitchen with Ama, the exceptional woman who would cook for us, the best chapati ever - there is nothing like eating chapati made with natural spring water from the runoff of the Himalayan mountains. When Ama finished cooking the meal, she would tear off a piece of chapati and throw it into the shurja in recognition of the Fire God Agni, for providing fire to cook the food.

Ishvara Pranidhana is the yogi virtue of surrendering to the cosmic will by committing oneself to a qualified spiritual teacher to learn, hold, perfect, and pass on the lineage.

An inner knowing and external gratitude to step outside oneself to see the bigger picture. Surrender is not weakness, but wisdom to completely see now, where the entirety of the universe dwells. There is no past or future, only now. Surrender is not weakness, but wisdom to completely see the now, where in which the entire universe dwells. There is no past or future, only now. Now that is ever-changing, when one learns to navigate change with flexibility, ease, and faith, resistance lessens & suffering ceases. Physical strength stays with one longer because the stress that deteriorates muscle is limited.

Now is ever-changing. Ishvara Pranidhana grants you the ability to navigate through change with flexibility, ease, and faith - suffering ends.

On the mat.

Stay in each posture for three ADDITIONAL breaths today.

For today.

Write this affirmation on a piece of paper.

“I am enough, ah hung”

Reflect upon the inner winds, and the views that move them.

Surrender
to remember
who you are
go far
then beyond
never stop
coming back to you

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