Acceptance is a powerful and essential concept that plays a significant role in our personal growth, relationships, and overall well-being. It involves acknowledging and embracing reality, people, situations, and even ourselves as they are, without judgment or resistance.

Patience is really the ability to abide with things the way they are. Patience allows you to tolerate failure, disappointment, defeat, unpleasantness, and confusion—all without giving up. Developing patience is a skill that can be cultivated. If you can foster patience with yourself, you naturally become patient with others, and it spreads to those around you.

Health comes from a synergistic effect of the choices we make in how we live our lives. There is not one right way. Yoga could be one’s choice of a “medicinal” lifestyle or it could not. However, the brilliance in the components that it includes, are not to be denied. Its principles can be brought forth to living a lifestyle that supports your overall health and wellness.

In the end, you develop hope through adversity and discomfort. To foster hope is to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Hope encourages us to look forward confidently and it becomes a refuge in the midst of difficulty.

Joy can be a singular event or transient state, interrupting our mundane existence with a hint of a larger purpose. Moreover, joy can be a disposition that we humans can cultivate.

Sankalpa helps you set your intention to achieve your goals and it works better than new year resolutions. Find here everything about intention and tips to set up your intentions.

Isvara Pranidhana is the last of the Niyamas of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Learn how to practice Surrender and embrace the attitude of letting go. Surrender takes courage.

Svadyaya (self-study) is the fourth Niyama from Patanjali’s Yoga. Self-study can help you gain clarity and self-awareness. Find here exercises to practice Svadyaya (and Kriya Yoga) in a deeper way. Look deep inside you to understand your true self.

Tapas is the third Niyama by Pantajali in the Yoga Sutras. Learn what tapas is in yoga and how you can practice it on your mat and in your life to be more disciplined.

Santosha is the second of the Niyamas of Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga and tells us how to find contentment in life. Explore how to practice Santosha in your daily life and on the mat.

Saucha, translated as purity or cleanliness, is the first Niyama in Patanjali's 8 limb path of yoga. Learn more about how you can bring saucha into your routines and practice techniques to purify your mind and body.

Brahmacharya is one of the 5 Yamas of Yoga, teaching us to use energy wisely. Learn more about this philosophy and how you can harness all your energy.

Understand all the four brahmaviharas known as loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Know how to cultivate them in your meditation practice with the help of a guided meditation.

Our October Theme of the Month is Aparigraha, the last of the 5 Yamas, the ethical underpinnings of yoga for living in the right relationship with others. Aparigraha is often translated as “non-greed,” “non-possessiveness,” or “non-attachment.”