Welcome To The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Yoga Online Classes
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga integrate 5,000-year-old Vedic wisdom with modern yogic interpretations, creating a daily yoga practice to help you unite body, mind, and spirit. Based on the teachings presented in Deepak Chopra and David Simon’s popular book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga, this beautiful practice blends meditation, Pranayama, yoga philosophy, sun salutations, and Asana development to bring you into alignment with the magnificent rhythms of the cosmos.
The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Yoga
When you learn yoga postures in Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga classes, the seven principles are woven into your practice and movements.
1. Law of Pure Potentiality
Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world. Since we are an inextricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded, and eternal.
2. Law of Giving and Receiving
Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe. Since the universe is in constant and dynamic exchange, we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love, and anything else we want circulating in our lives.
3. Law of Karma (Cause and Effect)
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind. When we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.
4. Law of Least Effort
We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love, we expend the least effort and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.
5. Law of Intention and Desire
Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment. When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe’s infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.
6. Law of Detachment
At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly. We don’t have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.
7. Law of Dharma
Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life. By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives. When we teach the yoga postures in Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga classes, we include the movements with these seven principles. We have found that even as our students are learning traditional yoga postures, the attention and intention they give to these principles improves the quality of all aspects of their lives. The mindful application of these spiritual laws promotes physical health and emotional wellbeing, success and abundance, loving relationships, and higher states of consciousness, including intuition, creativity, insight, imagination, and inspiration. Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile. However, while the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body. The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless world of spirit. Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. In this expanded state of consciousness, we experience freedom from suffering. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I’ve never practiced yoga before?
This yoga is perfect for EVERYONE. If you’ve done lots of yoga, or none at all, you are in the perfect place. The key is listening to your body…you know best what your body needs. If there’s something I’m doing that you don’t want to do, you don’t have to do it.
Do I need any props for this style of yoga?
If you would like to use blocks you can, however, I do not instruct with them in this program. All you need is a yoga mat (or carpet or soft flooring works too.
What if I’m considered an ‘advanced’ yogi(ni)?
I invite you to let go of labels. This yoga is great because it’s not just about the postures, but about going inward, which is what a traditional yoga practice was designed to help us do. Also, not everyone knows that Yoga and meditation are sister sciences and that this practice will prepare you for the ultimate yoga, which is sitting in silence for long periods of time.
What if I’m healing emotionally or physically, at this time?
We are all healing, always. Trust that you are where you are supposed to be and this practice is designed to take you inward to heal your spirit, mind, and body!
Anything I need to know or study before this program?
I recommend reading Deepak Chopra’s “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga” book not because you need to before doing this practice, but because it’s one we can read again and again and each time learns something new based on where we are on our own spiritual journey.
Namasté
