Meditation leaves Consciousness imprints in your mind. Not only does your mind become filled with Consciousness, each of these impressions dissolves prior impressions, freeing you from your history. The goal is to always live based in the Consciousness that you are. Yoga makes you able to harness the energy of your mind and pour it toward your inherent Divinity.

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Your focus is on your mind and heart, your body and life.  But you are the one who HAS a mind, who has a body, who has a life, who has a past and who has a future. Yoga says you are more than who you think you are. You are that existence which is being all that exists. There is more to you on the inside than the outside can ever convey.

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Yes, my body needs care. But here I am in my seventies, with less aches and pains than I had in my thirties. I don’t have to press the reset button. I don’t have to push myself to get going. Why? Because I’m filled from the inside. Baba gave me that. That which is called That. That reality that pervades all of existence, and also pervades inside my own existence, and inside yours. There is only one.  – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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Yoga says that you are the perceiver, not what you perceive. Know who you are, even while you are perceiving and acting. You can use your mind without getting trapped in it. Let the light of your own Self shine through your mind and into the world, so all your actions are based in love and generosity. 

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Shaktipat is an initiation that awakens your own Divine energy within, but you need to nurture it afterward, by repeating the mantra of this tradition. The mantra is powerful due to the energy installed in it by the Guru.  It is filled with the Light of Consciousness. Every time you say the mantra you draw on the Guru’s energy, which helps you know your own Self.

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Yoga is amazing. You step on to the path followed by other yogis for millenia, and you just put one foot in front of the other. How limiting that sounds. Yet, it is the path to freedom and its fruits are reliable. I was standing outside the other day, watching some of our regular yoga students as they walked to their cars. They moved so freely. They called to each other and laughed so freely. Doing the poses makes such a difference…  – Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

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You’re used to jumping out of your own skin. Moving forward into the space in front of your body. Racing against time, and trying to prove your worth. Instead, stay in your own skin. Be present in the space of your own body. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

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