There are two ways to be experiencing yogic bliss: from the outside — looking inward, or from the inside — looking outward.  When you do some spinal release poses, or Ujjayi Pranayama, mantra, chanting, any of the practices we do, when you’ve gotten lost in the world again outside yourself, you do these practices and now, you’re looking inward.  Any of these practices settle you inward.  And the deeper you go, the more bliss you experience.  And then deeper, beyond your senses, beyond your mind, beyond your idea of who you are. All the way in, to your own Self.  Oh, Shiva.

— Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Inner Bliss“