This moment is a doorway to liberation. We can access the doorway in a multitude of ways: our bodies, breath, meditation, through our work and doing service, through chanting, making art, gardening, cooking, teaching, woodworking, through study and philosophy.

The practice of yoga asana, pranayama, and meditation helps us to cultivate the capacity to do the yoga of everyday living with our families, in our work, and in our communities. We practice using our bodies and breath as a doorway to non-dual awareness. In the process transformation happens! Our backs feel more easeful, maybe our hips become more flexible, our sleep might improve. Our relationships and our minds transform. It’s miraculous.

A yoga kula is a community of practitioners.

When we commit to practicing together in tuning the instruments of our bodies we clarify and fortify our commitment to sing the song of liberation to everyone we meet.

The practice of yoga originated in India. Yoga includes the practices of yoga postures, breathing, meditation, chanting, study, cleansing practices (like using a neti pot!), and service to become an instrument in spreading our light and realizing who we really are. There are countless yogas, yogas of Tibetan Buddhism, Kashmiri Shaivism, Taoism, and honestly any religion you can think of. Yoga can be understood as unifying with the natural state, or unifying with what is.

We are a kula of teachers committed to coming together to practice and cultivate our capacity to be in this world just as it is, and shine brightly.

Love, Vivian, Jessica and Laura

This enso, Miracles of Each Moment, was created by Kazuaki Tanahasi. You can purchase his work at brushmind.net. The enso is a symbol from the Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition.