Ashtanga Yoga School Bellingham

While all three of these are important for our yoga practice, Isvarapranidhana is the most vital. However nebulous a philosophical inquiry, Isvarapranidhana is within our grasp at all times of day; it is nothing more than the art of living in abidance with the power of flow that many of us have an intrinsic sense of, and recognize, however subtly, in our daily lives. It is often said that “yoga is a preparation for meditation”; this may not be true, as meditation (sanskrit “dhyana”) is an aspect of yoga… so we cannot say we only do yoga to prepare for yoga… that does not make much sense… instead, we can say that our practice of asana and pranayama prepare us to experience the mind-state of dharana, and thus, in this yogic state of being, we are more adept at adhering to the more natural flow that exists beneath the surface of mere phenomena