12/06/2025
Yoga Sutras 1.29 - 1.32 📖
The Yoga Sutras teach that when we attune ourselves to AUM, we touch a quiet clarity inside—one that helps our obstacles loosen their grip.
Patanjali names the struggles we all know so well:
the days we feel tired, doubtful, distracted, overwhelmed, or simply not ourselves.
These show up as frustration in the mind, tension in the body, and breath that loses its rhythm.
But he also gives us a simple, steadying practice:
Return to one thing that is true.
One point of focus.
One anchor that brings you back to yourself.
In yoga, that anchor might be the breath.
In daily life, it might be a pause before speaking, a moment of silence in the car, a hand on the heart, or a clear intention for the day.
When the world pulls you in many directions, choose one direction to return to.
When your mind scatters, come back to the simplest thing you can feel—the inhale, the exhale.
With this gentle returning, the noise settles.
The breath evens.
And clarity rises again.
May our practice, both on and off the mat, keep guiding us back to this single truth:
peace begins the moment we come home to ourselves. 🕉️
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📚 Yoga Discipline of Freedom, Translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
