Kalyan Yoga

31/10/2025

We're really pleased to share that we'll be offering Hridaya Hatha Yoga two evenings a week at Nelson Osteopathic Clinic. We're fortunate enough to be able to offer these classes by koha as well. In these classes we'll try to guide you, as skilfully as possible, to experience directly your innermost Self, the Heart ❤

15/08/2025

Did you know that yoga is a spiritual path from the Hindu tradition and the purpose of the practice is to support practitioners to connect with spirit and reveal their true self?

Like most religions or spiritual groups, yoga aims to help followers overcome suffering. From a yogic perspective, ignorance or misunderstanding of our true self is seen to be the root cause of human suffering. So yoga can support a practitioner to realise, experientially, their true nature, and in doing so, help them to overcome suffering.

The practice of yoga creates conditions which leads to insight into our true nature. As we persevere with the practice, insight comes and ignorance starts to transform into direct knowledge or wisdom. This explains a little bit about the transformational effects of yoga. We are transforming our misunderstanding of who we think we are to an understanding of who we really are; freedom.

This can lead to all kinds of positive changes in daily life. Practitioners don't have to master yoga or become enlightened to experience the joy of this transformation.

Join us this Monday evening at Koru Studio for the practice of Hridaya Hatha Yoga 🦋

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09/08/2025

We are Adam and Sabina of Kalyan Yoga, and we have dedicated the last nine years of our lives to following and sharing the teachings of Hridaya Yoga.

What does Hridaya mean?

Hridaya is a Sanskrit word which translates to Spiritual Heart. We could describe the Spiritual Heart as the Heart of all of existence. Just like the blood flows out from and returns to the heart in the human body, all material reality arises from and returns to the Spiritual Heart.

The Spiritual Heart is the source of existence and represents eternity, infinity. When we bring our attention to this infinite dimension of our being, we may perceive a feeling of coming home, intimacy, familiarity, ease, playfulness, innocence.

What does yoga mean?

Yoga is another Sanskrit word which translates to union. We could say that yoga is the union of the individual heart with the Spiritual Heart or the recognition that the individual heart is one with the Spiritual Heart. Yoga is the recognition of our divine nature.

The primary purpose of the Hridaya teachings are to support each practitioner on a journey of reconnection with their heart, which in turn reveals their inner most essence, Hridaya, which is shared with all that exists. This can be experienced directly and in some cases create a profound shift in perception, of the way we relate to ourselves and the world around us.

It is so easy for life to pass us by without taking a moment to turn towards our heart, towards the very core of our being, as reflected in these words by Saint Augustine:

People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering.

Does yoga as a spiritual practice seem off-putting or more daunting than yoga as a form of exercise? Or does the spiritual nature of the practice make you feel curious? Or both! If you have any questions, we’d love to hear from you.

Join us for the practice of Hridaya Hatha Yoga, where we use the physical body and its energies to reveal the more subtle realm of the Spiritual Heart.

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