Category: A — Assimilating Knowledge
A menu can describe a meal; it cannot satisfy hunger. In the same way, a teaching becomes useful as we listen, question, reflect and explore what it points to in living. Bodywork, meditation and study meet here: a doing that flowers as Being.Begin with the companion chapter: A — Assimilating Knowledge.Selected readings: The Four Yogas · Feeling Space: Breath as Bridge · Jean Klein and the Energy BodyExplore this step in the Spiritual Awakening Journey · Previous step · Next step →
The Milk of Wisdom: Three Sources of Vedanta and the Flowering of Self-Knowledge
The value of a teaching is in the understanding it makes possible. A book can give us words, distinctions and questions; its purpose is fulfilled as…
Sankhya and Spiritual Awakening: Its Relationship to Advaita Vedanta
Understand Sankhya, purusha, prakriti and the gunas, with a clear comparison to Advaita Vedanta and Being Yoga’s approach to spiritual awakening.
Kundalini Yoga and Spiritual Awakening: Energy Body and Nonduality
Explore kundalini and Samkhya, their overlaps and differences with Advaita Vedanta, and Being Yoga’s focus on spiritual awakening and Self-knowledge.
Feeling Space: Breath as Bridge to Knowing via Being
Explore Feeling Space in Yoga: natural breath as a bridge from intellectual understanding to Knowing via Being, through asana and Global Listening.
The Bhagavad Gita: Upanishadic Wisdom in Story Form
The Bhagavad Gita reveals Upanishadic wisdom through Arjuna’s crisis. Explore all 18 chapters and Dharma, Yajna and Yoga: duty, sacrifice and skill in action.
Breath Awareness Meditation: Let the Breath Be Natural
Try a five-minute breath awareness meditation. Observe breathing as it happens, with optional gentle exhalation practice and no forced inhalation.
Lessons from the Mandukya Upanishad
Explore the Mandukya Upanishad’s teachings on waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and Turiya, with reflections on OM, awareness, and the names we give our experience.
The Physics of the Soul: Why Your Breath is the Blueprint of the Universe
Life is as simple as breathing and as complicated as the universe — You Are That!
All the Secrets are in the Breath
The Lens of Brahman: The Formless Outside View This exploration is written via the lens of Brahman with a little help from the lens of Atman.…
The Science of – Universal Respiration
Watch What is Universal Respiration? on YouTube Audio – How Breathing Creates Space and Time James Traverse uses “universal respiration” as a contemplative way to explore…