By Swami Samvidaananda

Your yoga poses make it so easy to meditate. Peace, deep stillness, quietude, joy, expanding bliss — this is how students have described their meditation at the end of their Yoga + Meditation class. 

Again and again, they share how deep their meditation was, and how easy it was to meditate.  They share how comfortable they were in their seats. They say they felt like they could sit and meditate forever.

This is the purpose of all yoga poses: to make it easy for you to sit for meditation.  Gurudevi gives this teaching again and again.  It was one of the first lessons I received in my first yoga teacher training, 27 years ago.

We learned a seated pose, we did a sequence of Svaroopa^® yoga’s signature core-opening poses, and then we sat in the same seated pose again.

What happened? To start, I was more comfortable.  Aches had melted away. I settled into an easy uprightness.  I was so surprised and delighted by how easy it was to sit that I ran up to Gurudevi after class to share: “You said let it be easy and it was!”

As your body settles and stills, your mind can settle and still as well. As you settle into your seat, you settle into your Self, your Divine Essence, your Beingness.

The easy stillness of your body is a doorway inside to your Self. Peace, stillness and joy — this is just the beginning of what you find as you delve into your divine, multidimensional depths.  

Your yoga poses make this so easy, so accessible. That’s why we offer several Yoga + Meditation classes a week. This is the reason that many Svaroopa^® yoga teachers offer Yoga + Meditation series. They combine an hour of asana (poses) followed by seated meditation preparation and a nice long meditation.

You’ll discover right away how the purpose of the poses is to make you able to sit for meditation. You’ll dive effortlessly deeper.  Check out our Global Calendar to find a Yoga + Meditation class at a time that works for you.