Explore Spiritual Awakening Through Being Yoga
Explore your true nature through the body, breath, meditation and self-inquiry. James Traverse’s teaching brings non-dual understanding into ordinary life.
In Being Yoga, spiritual awakening points to recognition of a wholeness that is already present. Begin with attentive practice, examine the assumptions you live by, and bring understanding into relationships and everyday activity.
A Suggested Learning Path
Follow Start Here for one clear route through the teaching. You can enter at any point and return at your own pace. These are learning steps, not levels of spiritual attainment.
- Understand awakening. Read the central guide and become familiar with Being Yoga’s perspective.
- Begin embodied practice. Try a five-minute meditation with body and natural breath.
- Explore self-inquiry. Investigate what you mean by “I”, without forcing an answer.
- Study BREATHE. Follow seven connected lessons on identity, interpretation and recognition.
- Live the teaching. Bring listening and awareness into conversation.
Meet James Traverse
Explore spiritual awakening with James Traverse, whose more than 50 years of yoga experience brings self-inquiry to life through the body, breath, and everyday listening. Read about James and his approach to yoga and self-inquiry.
BREATHE: Seven Parts, One Inquiry
Explore the BREATHE course through a story, a teaching metaphor and a brief reflection in each chapter. The sequence supports understanding and assimilation; it is not a timetable or a promise of a special state.
Choose a Practice
- Watch Demystifying Meditation — an eight-minute introduction with a transcript.
- Meditate with a busy mind — a gentle return to present experience.
- Understand mindfulness and self-inquiry — distinguish noticing from questioning.
- Browse the practice library — find embodied practice, meditation, inquiry and deeper study.
Learn with James
Ask about sessions exploring posture, breath awareness, meditation and self-inquiry, with room for questions. James is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Enquire about current availability, formats and fees.
Latest Articles
Being Okay with Not Knowing Is a Living Meditation
Explore living meditation through uncertainty, natural breathing, and open attention. James Traverse invites you to meet everyday life without needing every answer.
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. To understand what this means, we must first distinguish…
The Science of – Universal Respiration
Audio – How Breathing Creates Space and Time James Traverse uses “universal respiration” as a contemplative way to explore our relationship with life. Influenced by his studies of Vedanta and the Upanishads, this original teaching…
The Breath of All Things: Why Everything from Sunlight to Food is Actually a Form of Respiration
James Traverse explores breath as a philosophical metaphor for our relationship with sunlight, food, water, and the world, inviting reflection on exchange and interconnectedness.
The Noun Illusion – Why You’ll Never Find Yourself in Your Mind
Explore why labels and personal stories cannot fully define who you are. James Traverse uses the whirlpool metaphor to introduce self-inquiry and awareness beyond a fixed identity.
