233 thoughts on “Esoteric Yoga: The Yoga of Stillness”

1. I absolutely love the description of your body as “a precious lighthouse” Lyndy, and as I read it I could feel that this is what my body is too; in fact it had me smiling. And it follows that the deepr we care for ourselves, like attending regular Esoteric Yoga sessions, the more light that is going to shine forth from us. In a world that is very ‘dark’ at times this light is truly needed.

2. I know what you mean Lyndy. Every day everywhere almost we will run into what is not true and loveless, we can choose to be knocked down by this, what collectively we have made normal in the world; or we can be clear about what these things are, express, and keep on being ourselves–free from the control of what the world wants us to be in–hurt. We can choose instead to be the truth of who are, love.

3. Lyndy I loved what you have shared on this blog. I’ve been having the pull to Esoteric Yoga for some time and decided not only did I need and feel to bring this stillness into my own body and rhythm but also take it in particularly to work, a place I can often become caught in the calamity of it all.

   I took it upon myself to do a program of 2 sessions a week, one the day before work and one in the middle of the week and it is beautiful to observe the difference in my body and people around me.

   Observing the signals of my body when things become burdensome and observing the subtle changes around me.

   I’m loving Esoteric Yoga….

4. Esoteric Yoga is an opportunity to feel the inner stillness and feel the warmth of love flow through your body.

5. What a gorgeous, gorgeous blog to read, the stillness in which you have written is deeply felt, as I feel more still after reading. Having done Esoteric Yoga many times, I have to agree that it is a true medicine and one in which the body truly responds to.

6. Achieving stillness into our bodies when life is so super busy and full is at times a challenge. Esoteric yoga as you have explained here Lyndy is an amazing way to support the body to become still and then you to be able to move from there.

7. Lyndy this is a beautiful testimony on the power of the Esoteric Yoga modality and the awareness it brings to our bodies and all areas of our life. The stillness felt during a session allows me to slow down and to carry this feeling with me throughout the day allowing a different quality into all of my movements.

8. I’ve found Esoteric Yoga to be very valuable to the quality of my everyday life too – it’s helped me to be more aware of the way in which I move my body – the energy that I’m expressing with and how this impacts how I relate with everyone.

9. Esoteric Yoga is a very beautiful and powerful modality by which we can come back into our bodies with a deepening awareness of what it feels like to connect to our stillness within, our true divine essence thus learning to bring this into our day to day movements of life.

10. I agree Lyndy, the key to building a quality in our connection with our body is through surrendering to our inner stillness thus enabling our movements and expression to reflect the same quality and truth we feel with.

11. Perfect read for me at the moment. I could really feel how I have been enjoining what’s happening around me and allowing that to affect the way I am, how my movement doesn’t always come from that place of stillness, but instead ‘stillness’ is being held as something I would go to connect with when I think I am out and I need to. I realise it is a quality that I hold innately within me and it is something that I am made to be externalising through the way I live.

12. Very powerfully said Lyndy Summerhaze. You have surmised with such astute self-awareness, that without a foundation of stillness – known and fostered within – we are effectively left flailing in life. The image I have (and have known previously also myself – all too well !) is of a small boat in turbulent seas, rudderless, without sail, and at the mercy of winds and movements around it.
    In stillness – and without perfection – we know who we are, and we hold the capacity to stand as the light-house, strong amongst whatever winds may come, and yet in no way protected or curbed in our radiance, letting all in to this quality of the divine so deeply needed today.

13. Esoteric Yoga is the first modality to bring an environment and true understanding of what stillness is and the experience of that in my body – It has created a true marker in the body for what is possible and brings more clarity to what is not stillness absolutely exposing the agitation, anxiousness, raciness we accept living in our body everyday.

14. Esoteric Yoga is such a powerful tool in reflecting on how we are living and learning about how we can come back tour own rhythm and not that of all that is happening around us. There are times when I want to avoid this modality because of what it brings up and asks me to feel- nothing can be hidden.

15. Through the stillness that I feel from Esoteric yoga I am able to feel how every movement is connected, and how we can choose to be in harmony with everyone around us, and how simply that harmony changes everyone’s response.

16. “ I have come to realise that to know and connect to the stillness within the body is first essential if I want to move and speak in a true way. “ This is a beautiful understanding of appreciating the responsibility of movement in our everyday. The two are absolutely connected so if inside we are unsettled and not connected to our bodies, every thought that come from this will reflect out in every action. If we could see the energy of this truth we would probably humbly stop in our tracks and immediately choose to re-connect back to our bodies. This is the gift of Esoteric Yoga, while we might see the energy we can feel it.

17. I have never really considered that my human body is ‘a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed’… but I absolutely love this analogy Lyndy, it makes so much sense!

18. When we move in connection to how our body feels, there is a natural flow, that allows us to work in harmony with our body rather than against it, and therefore we don’t get exhausted.

19. I love what is shared here and can feel the quality of what Esoteric Yoga brings a real connection to and feeling with our bodies which offers us a stop to see and feel how we have been and how we are living, it’s a real gift, and one I cherish more each time I do it, it just shows me that right now I can move in real care and presence with my body and highlights when I don’t so I can then bring that to my daily life – such a real and practical tool for us all, a Divine gift.

20. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?”

    I love this question Lyndy. We live in an ever-expanding Universe yet rarely do we live in sync with such order due to the fact we create our own movement within this that then sends us into a spin. The key to living amongst the ceaseless motion we live within is to know how to connect with the deep well of Stillness that resides within us all and by understanding that this Stillness is not an arrested state of movement but more so a way to move and respond in accordance to the pulse of the Universe we are so held by.

    1. Choosing movement from in internal pulse connected to the rhythms of the universe and not the throb of the creations of the world are reflecting back and demanding that we keep up.

21. Esoteric Yoga offers the gentlest loving reflection of what our body truly has to communicate with us.

22. Such a great point if we do not know a place of stop or stillness then what do we move with? And how do we move? We’re like a ship without an anchor at the mercy of the way, or more to the point we’ve cut ourselves off from the anchor in us, the stillness we naturally have and when we move from this, it’s very different, very steady and without the excesses we often bring to how we can otherwise be. We find our ‘centre’ again.

23. Esoteric Yoga means getting to know your body and your true self via the body and how to live the true you in a world that is yet to discover, accept and understand that this possibility is available – it is a life changing simplicity.

24. Without feeling and knowing ourselves by the body we actually don´t know more of ourselves as what the mind tells us is by interpretation and pictures. Esoteric Yoga puts the mind into its right place, makes it part of the whole body thereby readjusting our perception, not just of ourselves, but how we look at life.

25. Esoteric Yoga, the Yoga of Stillness is an awesome tool to discover what is really going on in the body and feel how much bracing and protection we carry around on a daily and moment to moment basis.

26. “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again.” Esoteric Yoga allows us to build this relationship with ourselves to new levels we never thought possible, the more we learn to move with this the more we know God within ourselves.

27. “What comes to me in life may not always be pleasant or easy but what I’ve discovered is if I carry a known space from my body out, I remain knowing who I am and what I stand for. This feels like true liberation indeed!” This is so beautiful and inspiring, it so, so true what you say, it is very freeing.

28. ‘The stillness I have found through Esoteric Yoga has been to me a true medicine.’ Well said Lyndy and I totally agree with all you share here about this powerful modality and the deep stillness we get to experience that supports us beautifully throughout the day.

29. That really does sound like medicine and true preventative medicine as you say Lyndy – the way we live, move and respond to life has a huge impact on our health an wellbeing and Esoteric Yoga supports us to build a connection with our essence that we can then take with us into all our activities and interactions for the benefit of all.

30. Having done other forms of yoga for many years prior to finding the Esoteric Yoga, none of them ever brought stillness or quality of movement in my body.

31. Lyndy, thanks for sharing your experience and understanding with Esoteric Yoga – it has supported me hugely in becoming aware of my movements and in fact if I am in chaos that is in all my movements, it really is energy first. And yes there is a universality to Esoteric Yoga which brings all of us an understanding that everything we do has an impact everywhere.

32. I would describe esoteric yoga as giving the body the space to process what has happened in life, to feel it in full and allow it to dissolve as the body repairs itself.

33. I love the revelation you had about the stillness and movement. We are so used to being influenced by the outside and/or keeping it together by control, all the while there is a natural flow we belong to and can live by.

34. Interesting that if we slow things down and listen carefully then we become more aware of the energy that is fuelling all our movements.

35. I haven’t done much tradition or modern yoga but I know that it is all about moving in a certain way. From most I have seen it’s about perfecting poses in different ways and flexibility. I don’t think I have ever seen it being about stillness until now or until Universal Medicine. It makes sense though as the blog is saying, “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” Esoteric Yoga isn’t about perfect poses at all but about stillness and true movement. I also often see people doing yoga or meditation for hours and then going back to the world or work etc whereas it’s like they are two different worlds. Esoteric yoga is life and it’s about life, not taking you out of it but having you still and aware in it. There seems to be a big gap between where yoga is now and where Esoteric Yoga is bringing us to. A Yoga for everyday life that supports you in every way and doesn’t need you to master a single pose but yet asks you to move connected in every moment, to master your every move.

36. “This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed.” What a wonderful revelation to find ourself to be a lighthouse of love so to say, that is helping us to guide us through the wild seas of life to that safe heaven we all belong and have to safely returned to.

    1. I love this imagery also for it reminds us that our body is a beacon and not a burden.

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38. I agree Lyndy that Esoteric Yoga and the quality and awareness we build through it, ripples out into our lives far beyond the session itself.

    1. It is those ripple effects we are not always aware of, and therefore appreciating as such, that do make people change in life on many more levels that we would ever envisage.

       1. Very true Nico and this is where I find staying open to observe and appreciate the small changes and not dismissing or ignoring them, builds a deepening appreciation (and understanding) of connection, movement and their affect.

39. Brilliant blog Lyndy; ‘The stillness I have found through Esoteric Yoga has been to me a true medicine.’ This is true for me too Lyndy. It confirms that the power of stillness when we choose to connect to it is deeply healing and supportive for us all.

40. I find the beauty of Esoteric Yoga is that you don’t even have to do much, however the results are amazing.

41. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” What a revelatory question to ask ourselves Lyndy. It could also be posed as “How can we breathe out if we never learn to breathe in?” Life in this universe consistently shows us that when we only adhere to one side of the equation, all else is thrown out of whack.

42. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” Great question Lyndy, one if someone had asked me several years ago I would have been very confused about, as to me stillness was the very antithesis of movement. Fast forward to today and the fact that through participating in many Esoteric Yoga sessions I have come to know and understand how stillness and true movement are so closely aligned, that you can’t have one without the other. This understanding has brought so many changes to the quality in which I now live my life, especially how I move and how I am in the world.

43. Life is so different when lived from a place of stillness. The same job, the same activity, the same task feels totally different to when we are living in a stressful way.

44. I am three weeks into an Esoteric Yoga Stillness program with Vicky Geary, and each week I can feel the awareness and the changes, and how the classes really support us to maintain more steadiness and consistency in our daily life. Thank you Lyndy for such a great piece about the beauty and benefits of stillness.

45. “I am starting to understand that everything that I am, do and think is not just about me, but also about all of us.” Just imagine how our world would be if we were all introduced to Esoteric Yoga from our early formative years.

46. Me too – it is only since getting to know the quality of stillness that I have become aware of how nervous/anxious/exhausted I was a lot of times, and how that was actually not really the true essence of my natural way of being – no matter how dominant that seem to have been.

47. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” Wow yes how? It sounds like a beautiful science to me that the quality of how we are before we move gets magnified when we move so that it is thus vitally important to know what that quality of stillness is that we magnify.

48. Thank you Lyndy for a beautiful blog on the true benefits of Esoteric Yoga, it has helped me to come to know and feel my body as my guide through life, and has opened up an honesty to just feel what is there to feel without judgment and allow the healing to take place within the stillness.

49. “This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed.” This body has turned out to be my best friend, a true friend who will always tell me how it really is – a partnership that before Universal Medicine I was too wrapped up in the outer world to pay any heed to.

50. I found myself nodding to everything you have shared here Lyndy. Initially I did not like (in fact I hated) Esoteric Yoga but that was because it was a time to stop and take notice of the energy I allowed into my body and the quality that came with it and at the start I was not ready to claim my responsibility to the state of my inner environment. Today I am finding that if I need a truthful answer it lays within my body. And if there is uncertainty, the only thing preventing such clarity is again my willingness to claim responsibility for the energy in my body either allowing the truth to be expressed or suppressed. But when I do connect to the truth within me, it adds another weight to the side of why living from my body makes the most sense and support in life.

51. ‘For example, it was the tension in my arms and the way I was holding them that told me that I was in a constant state of bracing against what the world might bring. What a powerful reminder of how I have been living – always in apprehension of what might happen.’ A pattern I have been very familiar with Lindy and still in ‘new’ situations I can get caught by this apprehension as if I am not capable to deal with what is coming. With Esoteric Yoga I am building a relationship with myself and my body, connecting to the stillness which lives within and a natural confidence appears by making this loving choice to connect.

52. I had a friend say to me the other day ‘Stillness is still motion’ – and it made so much sense. Stillness doesn’t mean not moving, but it is the quality of how we do things first and foremost. Once we appreciate the quality – the rest will flow.

53. Lynda I can relate to what you have shared, particularly living in a way that is “always in apprehension of what might happen.” I hadn’t realised how much I was also bracing against what might happen. A wonderful insight to work with today.

54. One of the points you raise here Lindy, is for me very simple but very important and goes to the core of what Yoga is about. If we take into movement our tension, anxiousness or any other disturbance held in our bodies, this is what we magnify in the movement. At the core of Yoga is choosing a quality to take into movement. Learning about this in Esoteric Yoga then translates into everything we do, no matter what movement we take it to. Then Yoga is a way of life and not performing a limited range of movements (postures) focussing on the technical correctness of them rather than the energy we are magnifying throughout our bodies.

55. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” Such a pertinent question in a world of busy-ness. Learning to stay with my body has had and is having profound effects in my life. I love Esoteric Yoga, the union of mind, body and soul.

56. I just love what you have said here Lyndy: “This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on”. Too often we ignore this wonderful body of ours, thinking we know better, and as a result tripping and landing on a few “rocks” in the process, but I have learned the hard way that its wisdom is beyond question and to listen to its messages can save so much pain and discomfort. And like you it has been the “Yoga of Stillness” that has brought me back to a body that is so very precious and one that deserves endless loving attention.

57. Presence brings spaciousness and in that spaciousness energy is never wasted, it just returns to be used for ever more of the same quality.

58. Dear Lyndy,
    A super powerful article that presents a way of life that can be attained by all, if the choice is made to ignite and live by the stillness that resides within.

59. ‘ Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again’. Love this line because I too have been able to feel so much more of me through reconnecting with the stillness and the space within me.

60. With the support of Esoteric Yoga I am rebuilding the foundations on which I live my life – which means making the space to listen to my body and respond to the messages it gives me. I am at last conceding that without my body’s intelligence my mind is an utter liar, no matter how reasonable or clever it appears to be. I totally relate to the sentence ‘This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed.’ I would like to add ‘to exercise’ to the ‘before yoga’ nuisance list – but now I know the benefit that gentle exercise brings to all aspects of my life.

61. What a brilliant tool to use to become aware of every choice and every movement. The richness of this way of living is what stands out for me, being able to bring the awareness into your body so that it is truly lived.

62. Esoteric Yoga always exposes something for me that I have not wanted to look at. Such as how exhausted I have been, the choices I am making that are not loving, the tension my body is in because of my choices. It also then shows me the truth underneath all of that..how exquisitely beautiful and tender I am, how I can move in a way and support myself so that I continue to feel this and that my loveliness can be part of my everyday, everyday. I have never done any other yoga that offers this.

63. “When I am being truly present I notice that no energy is squandered and I feel more vitality coming back into my body.” True Lyndy and to have the experience this presence, we then have a choice to be and live with this awareness in our day. The quality of presence brings everything to life.

64. Since attending Esoteric Yoga Sessions online I have had many similar experiences. It’s as if in that session everything, how I walk, work, talk, hold my body, sit, everything that is not from that stillness has become much more highlighted and brought to the fore of my awareness rather than running in the background and I didn’t know any different. At first I would of run 100 miles away from Esoteric Yoga, so uncomfortable and avoiding feeling what I had/have allowed to run my body in terms of the hectic and racy thoughts constantly on high alert. But each time I come back to stillness the less intense that hecticness gets and the weaker I get to feel that it truly is.

65. Well said Lyndy, we need to first connect to the stillness within and then move with and from it. Otherwise how do we know where our movement is coming from?

66. I love the metaphor of your body being like a precious lighthouse revealing the danger and rocks you can get caught on, guiding you through and lighting your way. There is no doubt that connecting to and developing this awareness though Esoteric Yoga brings profound appreciation of the power of what our bodies can teach us.

67. The power of stillness is amazing, having been working on my stillness it has brought so much clarity, simplicity back into my life, I feel I have more space to do everything I need to. I get through more jobs in the day. I don’t feel as anxious as I use to.

68. ” When I am being truly present I notice that no energy is squandered and I feel more vitality coming back into my body.” This is so true, when I am truly present my body feels so alive and full of vitality, my awareness is greater.

69. Esoteric yoga for me helps me to re-connect to and establish a quality in my body. It is hard to define this quality as it is for ever deepening and never static – what I can say is it is allowing, confirming and brings a contentedness with it. It feels empowering and strong and the more I then live with this quality the deeper it becomes, the more beholding it becomes both of myself and others. It is a magical quality we all have equally within us – just dont always choose to be aware of it!

70. The changes you describe are immense – going from reaction and protection to the awareness of where the body is at and responding from there; this then does justice to the situation and is no longer dictated by old fears and hurts.

71. Beautifully said Lyndy. Esoteric Yoga has shown me a way to connect to inner stillness and to feel the true love that is my essence.

72. Thank you Lindy, for so beautifully sharing your experience of yoga and what it has brought to your life, I too love Esoteric Yoga and can agree with all that you have shared, great line “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?”

73. It is beautiful how you share this, as the way we are in our bodies is so important in the way we handle life. Knowing the stillness is indeed helping us to discover true movement from this stillness within.

74. What a great statement …”If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?…” In stillness there is a presence of ourselves felt and an awareness of who we are. Then to move WITH this, walking, driving car, talking, moving to sit or stand, the body mechanics would move naturally in a more harmonious way, which i’m sure would have a profound effect on all the body systems.

75. Esoteric Yoga is very exposing and revealing of how we live our lives but one of the beautiful things about it is that it doesn’t just expose you and leave you there to face your choices alone. The essence within us, that stillness is there to support us to face this exposure and understand it in such a way that we are empowered to heal it ourselves, like every other true Esoteric Modality it is supporting us to heal ourselves as everything we need to heal is already within us.

76. Beautifully expressed Lyndy and I agree with all you share, in my experience with Esoteric Yoga I can also feel the true medicine it offers the body

77. Lyndy, you have opened the door on sharing the tremendous gift Esoteric Yoga brings, that the stillness is…”like a powerful preventative medicine”… Undoubtable, in this high paced, technological, ‘advanced modern era’ this modality does offer place where to start for preventative public health.

78. “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” A great question Lindy. Esoteric Yoga allows us the space and the grace to stop. Then from this profound stillness we can move and go about our day, yet with that stillness in our core. Esoteric Yoga is an amazing modality. Deep appreciation for Serge Benhayon who brought it through for humanity. In this day of rush and busy-ness it is sorely needed.

79. Esoteric Yoga is a beautiful modality allowing us a precious stop moment, a space for us to hear what the body is sharing with us.

80. I can relate to everything you’ve shared here Lyndy about Esoteric Yoga and what it offers us in our daily life and appreciate how beautifully you’ve expressed it.

81. ‘This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on …’ Lindy I love this. Through Esoteric Yoga I am relearning to actually allow myself to actually feel what is going on in my body. By opening up to feeling again I am realising that my body is a lighthouse, and that if I but listen, I will know how to negotiate the dangers life can present without walking around braced in protection.

82. Thank you Lyndy for expressing so fully the benefits of bringing stillness into our lives. Esoteric Yoga is a beautiful modality that enables us to feel this stillness much more deeply.

83. Lindy, you explain esoteric yoga so well. It deepens that understanding about our responsibility with the energy within. I love that you highlight how important it is to be in the energy we want to be in before we move as each movement magnifies that energy.

84. It is true Esoteric Yoga truly offers mankind real connection with this tool of – choosing to connect with your body. I would say this form of support is actually medicine , as it is truly caring and supportive to balance your inner-state and body. Deep applause for Universal Medicine for bringing this modality through for mankind. I know it has helped me incredibly to re-connect to my body and my feelings, I am no longer unaware of my body aches and feelings within. Which you could say is quiet unpleasent at times, but I actually enjoy feeling more whatever that feeling is!

85. Beautifully expressed Lyndy. When I first started to do Esoteric Yoga I really struggled as it totally exposed just how exhausted I was. So in most, if not all of my sessions for quite some time I would enjoy a little power nap. When I did manage to stay awake it was also very revealing to realise how distracted I got and how easy it was to let my mind drift off on some tangent. As I continue to do more Esoteric Yoga programs and build more presence in my body, this level of distraction is becoming less and less and the stillness I am starting to feel and build within is definitely rippling into the rest of my daily life.

86. It is great that you mention here about the quality of energy in the body which determines the quality of what unfolds in our day. This is something we rarely consider but it makes perfect sense when really considered. After all if we are in turmoil on the inside, is this not going to be reflected on the outside?

87. The Esoteric Yoga was something I resisted at first and something that can at times be rather challenging for me. It is the most simplest of all things in the world that would could ever do next to breathing, yet it can be very exposing of the momentums that I have found myself running with. Although challenging it is also the greatest support as I have learnt so much about my body and my choices throughout my day that these momentums are no longer as evident throughout my day.

88. You’ve really captured the true scope, breadth and value of Esoteric Yoga here, Lyndy – not only in its benefits to the self but to what it brings to others through the stillness we are introduced to and begin to live by. Really, a yoga like no other in its support of a greater relationship with the body and our innate stillness, our inner wisdom.

89. Thank you Lyndy for sharing your wisdom here on Esoteric Yoga. I totally agree with your statement that you can only know true movement if you experience the stillness. Esoteric Yoga is a simple and powerful modality that invites the body to deeply surrender and the connection I feel with myself and others is a truly beautiful experience.

    1. Absolutely true Irena. Your statement is so simple yet holds an enormous message for us all regarding what is possible in our lives depending on the choices we make.

90. Lyndy I am so great-full that you have experienced and share this with us. Today I have done Esoteric Yoga in the early morning, while I was actually feeling very out of sorts (and tired). I felt that it actually helped me surrender and let go of the tension of always meeding to sustain ‘just in case’.. With this Yoga session in my bed, I have felt that I could let go, and once I finished and began my day, coming on school, I could feel I was walking in the room without holding my arms and heart, I felt that everyone could see me, and I actually was OK with that. For me this is my marker forever, I do not need to hide and I actually can live without hiding too!

91. Esoteric Yoga works wonders, I find when I’m connected to my body everything in my day just runs smoothly and I have plenty of time to complete tasks.

92. Gently bringing myself back to stillness allows me to be aware of what is going in my body and let go off the activity in my mind.

93. Thank you Lyndy for your beautiful words “I have found that as I’ve grown in awareness of the quality with which I meet the varying situations of daily life now, it has become ever clearer that I have a choice in how I respond to those situations. I can choose to react, resist, hide or be a victim of what presents, or I can align to and offer harmony, humour, observation and love to the situations I encounter.”
    Through stillness we have the opportunity to re-imprint those past momentums and pattens we can get stuck in. By staying with the yumminess of stillness we are saying yes to God and yes to evolution.

94. Thanks Lyndy for sharing your unfolding through Esoteric yoga and your growing awareness. We can only know what is happening around us by knowing deeply what is within us and the silliness we are. This is a solid platform from which to interact in the world. I felt the truth in you comment – ‘The stillness I have found through Esoteric Yoga has been to me a true medicine’. Very Beautiful and empowering.

95. Thank you Lyndy for your expansion on what Esoteric Yoga is all about. We do have it all within us to live life lovingly with Harmony and Stillness and Esoteric Yoga is a great modality in supporting the return to this natural way of living.

96. An amazing article… the power of esoteric yoga and stillness is truly remarkable. It is indeed a medicine for it exposes the energy we are choosing to live in at any moment and provides us a space where we can expand our awareness and be inspired to choose what is truly supportive when moving forward from there.

97. Lyndy, beautiful writing and sharing about Esoteric Yoga. I have found the same, and thank you for the reminder to come back to the stillness within on a regular basis; this is true self care and preventative medicine at it’s best.

98. Lyndy, when I read your blog, I immediately connect to stillness, that is so beautiful. Or in other words again – Your blog emanates stillness, that is so amazing. Stillness is so powerful, it helps me to just BE, instead of running around and just ticking boxes.

    1. Yes Alexander, I too could feel the stillness spreading in my body when reading Lyndy’s blog. Esoteric Yoga is truly powerful – and it’s simplicity is astounding, so absolutely everybody can learn and do it. There is no need to be half an acrobat or anything alike. This truest form of yoga is about re-connection to the stillness within, through connecting with the body. It works for me.

99. Beautifully expressed Lyndy – Esoteric Yoga has also supported me to feel the quality of energy I am moving with through my day. At times it has been very exposing to feel how much of my life has been spent living in nervous energy and taking me further away from myself. Esoteric yoga has been power-full for me, I have got to experience a level of stillness in my body I had been avoiding my whole life and the benefits are enormous and has a flow on effect that supports others around us as well.

100. Modern life does not encourage us to be still. We are forever caught in a barrage of motion, always moving from one thing to the next, our mind a whirlwind of thoughts as we struggle to keep up with a programme not of our own making. Stillness is actually the natural pulse of the body, and when we truly learn to be still, we realise that we are free of time – not in the practical sense – but in the sense that time truly does seem to slow down. I have personally experienced this, and have come to realise over the years that moving in the agitation of anxiety does nothing to get things done quicker, often inviting in complication that causes things to get done more slowly. Being still is the key not only to a more functional and vital life, but key to creating a space and way of being that allows us to connect to the truth of all things.

101. Totally agree, the more stillness one can bring to their life the greater their capacity to observe everything that is happening around them.

102. Such a beautiful blog, Lindy. I echo your comment, “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again.”

103. Wow Lyndy to read your blog was such a great joy for me. I could feel the stillness in every word you wrote. If I did not know about Esoteric Yoga this would be the first thing I would love to do after reading your inspirational blog. For me to get the possibility to re-connect to this stillness was essential because I was completely lost in all the doing and driving and in the outside reward. Now my stillness fill me up – nothing more is needed.

104. I love your comments here about stillness. I often feel as a woman a pull to stillness in certain parts of my cycle and it feels so natural and honouring of myself and life around me. I too find esoteric yoga a huge support in developing this more in my everyday life. It definitely shows me there is another way to live, not constantly stressed and rushing to the rhythms of everything around us, but rather knowing and moving to our own rhythm.

105. “Esoteric Yoga has been the most valuable tool to assist in expanding my awareness of the kind of energy in which I am living my life.” I agree with what you have shared here Lyndy. The modern world has made yoga about the doing, the postures, the breathing ratios, etc which is a far cry from the truth of the true practise of yoga which is about stillness. Esoteric Yoga is a return to what yoga was always about, that being stillness.

106. You make a great point when you say that “no energy is squandered” when we are present in and with what we are doing, when the mind thinks what the body does rather than the head moving about without the body. The former is, in thought, elsewhere, miles away in the past or future and the body becomes empty and merely functioning flesh by rote.

107. When I allow myself to observe how my body influences all around me, I get a glimpse of the responsibility I have in taking my daily choices. I then tend to become serious. Then again, Esoteric Yoga helps me to reconnect and from thereon take decisions that keep me light.

108. Beautiful blog Lyndy. my whole body just sighs with relief and it feels so much more relaxed when I bring stillness rather then live in guard to what might happen in life- there is a noticeable difference. I found it wasn’t until I knew what stillness was, that I realised how racy and on edge I had been living. Huge contrast.

     1. Emily it was very similar for me too, I was very racy, nervous and on edge and when my body feels still it sighs with relief. I see more and more this is naturally the way we’re made to be rather than always rushing around and constantly 2 steps ahead, and I find with that quality in my body there is no longer that need to fill by making life more complicated.

109. Knowing what stillness is through esoteric yoga is such a great tool. I have been totally suprised how easy I can go into an anxious energy to get me through the day if I have a huge amount to do. Before feeling the stillness and knowing what conscious presence is, this little anxious freind of mine could easily slip under the radar.

110. Thank you Lyndy for your sharing on the effects esoteric yoga has on your life. I remember my first esoteric yoga session very clearly in how confronting I found it to become aware of how much was going on in my body and difficult I found it to connect to the stillness inside. And now I am, just like you, a big fan of this form of yoga and benefit hugely from the platform it offers me in my practical day to day living.

111. I have found this to be very true within my life “….living in the presence of my own stillness is by far the most practical way to live life as it has greatly improved the power of my observation”. Esoteric Yoga supports a reconnection with the stillness that lies within our bodies at a deeper level to the busy minds and tired bodies. That stillness is now my foundation and one that I am learning to connect with more and more; it is very supportive and ‘practical’ to live with this quality.

112. Very beautiful Lyndy – thank you. It is so true that when we are connected to our stillness within us we are able to respond and live with the truth and love of who we are rather than existing from our reactions. And I love you analogy of the body being like a lighthouse, as I agree that our bodies are always signalling to us the way to live in harmoniously. Esoteric Yoga is a powerful modality that presents the opportunity for us to connect to our stillness within, to our essence where we can develop and deepen our presence and bring this divine quality to all that we do and all that we meet.

113. Lyndy thankyou for sharing the impact of Esoteric Yoga in your life. I love the line Esoteric Yoga has been true medicine for you as it has inspired me to commit to it as a regular practice in my own life.

114. You have summed it up so well here Lyndy as esoteric yoga offers us all the opportunity to connect with the stillness we all innately hold within and bring it out. It is a beautiful modality that brings you back into the body like nothing I have ever experienced. A super supportive and needed modality for all.

115. The stillness and depth of quailty found in Esoteric Yoga is deafening

116. ‘The way I live is constantly impacting not only on my own wellbeing and bodily health, but also other people’s wellbeing and the environment around me.’ If we understand this we start living more responsibly and with true care.

117. Thank you for writing Lyndy. I love what you write about ‘The Stillness within and building that for the tool power of observation’ (and not absorbing).
     To hold my stillness I trust the way I move is universal (with all my body) to all around me. If something does not feel right in my body I move and change it. If there is something more I feel I have to do I must honour it. As I know that stillness, and that relationship with my connection to it, I adjust and move to hold my feeling until it is complete. Just as long I have purpose, and that its not lost by continually coming back to me if I’m distracted, it will serve my feeling for the next impulse from my body.
     Also, what is re-markable observing from Stillness I can feel what is not right nearly 100% of the time. I then have a choice to remain still and observe. If it is something that affects my stillness I can choose to read it from my stillness to know why the situation is like that.

118. Thanks Lyndy for your sharing , I too like “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again”

119. Having recently completed a six weeks Esoteric Yoga Woman’s Program with Marcia Owen, I can totally relate to what you are saying. These groups have been so beneficial, the connection with the other ladies on the group has been so supportive. I have realised these sessions have a ripple effect in all other areas of my life. The best present we can give ourselves and to others is finding our stillness within.

120. I never knew, and still wouldn’t know, what stillness was until trying Esoteric Yoga. I was never drawn to other forms of yoga but tried the lotus position a couple of times which really wasn’t happening for me. Coming from a male energy we are constantly in motion or driving ourselves, so this natural form of yoga is well needed to stop and take note and be still, and feel how we truly are feeling in our bodies. I do like the line about not wasting energy if we are truly present, as if I come home and I’m more tired than usual I can look back on my day and review how present I was throughout that day. Was I wasting energy on being somewhere else?

121. Lyndy, I love how you have expressed yourself! Especially the sentence that stood out for me (and not because it was bolded) was: “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again” – this is so true, and I feel that when I go into too much doing with the focus on what I am doing rather than how I am feeling and how my body is feeling, then yes I absolutely tend to lose myself in the activity. And esoteric yoga is the thing that helps us develop that connection with our stillness and helps to stop the tread-mill phenomena of life. Thank you for your sharing Lyndy!

122. It was not until I was first introduced to esoteric yoga at a Universal Medicine retreat that I discovered the power of it. I was amazed to actually feel how my body was when it absorbed and reacted in life, to then stop, surrender and feel the true essence of what it is – Love.

123. I have also found Esoteric Yoga to be deeply supportive concerning how I respond from my body to what life shares with me. I have reconnected to a deep stillness, which I do not always live, but do return to more frequently.

124. “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again.” This is really beautiful Lyndy, to feel one’s stillness is a true joy, creating the space in one’s life to feel stillness, to just stop and allow, can be challenging at times, but so very worth it.

     1. This resonated with me too raegankcairney and it is something that is hard to describe or understand, until through that creation of space the stillness can be felt – and the understanding of a deepening to a greater stillness waiting for us.

125. You have a way with words Lyndy and your description of Esoteric Yoga absolutely does justice to it’s beauty, power and fundamentally medicinal nature as a modality.

126. Your opening questions really stopped me this morning…”“If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” … you are right it is a fundamental tenant to be deeply pondered…quality in stillness and connection before quality of action.

     1. I agree Lyndy and Joel- a very important point to consider- that if we are not connected to the true quality of stillness first within the body, then we won’t be in true movement there afterwards.

127. Wow Lyndy your blog says it all so clearly. The stillness experienced as a result of the practice is exquisite, and most potent is the fact that it is us​. ​As Annie C comments, through Esoteric Yoga and the experience of stillness​, ​we realise that stillness or nervous tension – is a choice.

128. Beautiful Lyndy, what you have written is a huge inspiration to reconnect to the body and listen to what it is saying. It’s so easy to get into the spiral of nervous energy and stress, but when my body tries to tell me it’s so uncomfortable I try to numb it out, or get even more into nervous energy, crazy. Esoteric Yoga helps to connect to that deep stillness that is our true natural state of being, and from there it is easier to make the choice to not enter anxiousness or nervous tension. Never before would I have considered it a choice, just an unavoidable part of life – and as a result my body and my well-being have improved enormously.

129. Thank you Lyndy. As a man, I have found it especially difficult at times to even want to attend an Esoteric Yoga session, because of the tension and restlessness it exposed in my body. Over time I found it a most supportive modality in this sense, in that it assisted me to realise how my body was really running, and revealed to me why it was permanently exhausted. We can use the mind to fool ourselves what is really going on for our bodies, but Esoteric Yoga assists to bring a level of honesty to our lives by making us more aware of the state of being we are choosing to live in.

     1. I agree Adam, the beauty of yoga is that in the deep stillness the body clearly reveals how we have been living our day or weeks, as it doesn’t lie. From there we can make more loving choices of how to be with ourselves.

        1. I have had a similar experience to Adam only as a woman. Everything about Esoteric Yoga asks me to connect with my body and to honestly feel how I have been treating it.

130. Lindy- thanks for all for sharing all of the ways the oh so simple practice of Esoteric Yoga has influenced so deeply just about every aspect of your life. Hear hear- it is true medicine – it is the elixir for our modern lives.

131. Thank you Lyndy, your question “If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?” posed such a strong realization to me. How important it is to be in the essence of stillness that the quality of us radiates from.

     1. So very true Concetta. That sentence Lyndy posed has a lot in it. Stillness must come before movement otherwise, what are we moving in ? – dissary in my experience.

132. Esoteric yoga is a huge support in building my stillness. As my stillness grows so does my awareness of everything, how I am in and with life.

133. “Esoteric Yoga has been the most valuable tool to assist in expanding my awareness of the kind of energy in which I am living my life”- I too have definitely have found this.
     And in the stillness I can feel the true essence of who I am- tender, precious, sacred and divinely beautiful. Everything else that I feel is not who I truly am.

     1. I agree Loretta, developing a relationship with our own stillness and nothing short of divine and is scared for us all. It is a beautiful way to live life when we move forward with stillness.

134. I love how you have expressed the true power of stillness here Lyndy. It deeply connects me to this awareness and understanding that to be in stillness is to feel the essence of who we are which is always exquisite. From that place, as you say, we observe. What a blessing for ourselves and those around us. What I have found that esoteric yoga has brought me is to enable me in that stillness to feel a sense of who I really am – to reconnect to that essence of me – who is absolutely gorgeous by the way and very little to do with the hard, tense individual who was always braced for the next situation. I am not actually all those negative things I thought I was – esoteric yoga is a gift.

135. ‘Now that I can feel my body I can appreciate it so much more. It now makes sense to choose to nurture it instead of neglecting it and running it ragged. This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed.’ The deeper I know this the more I enjoy life.

136. Esoteric Yoga is a beautiful way of connecting back to the stillness which resides within us.

137. Awesome Lyndy, My first Esoteric Yoga was at the 2015 Lennox Head Retreat. It was very difficult for my body to connect to the stillness at first. This revealed how I had been living, disconnected and racy. Slowly I was able to connect to my body and feel the amazing power and fullness around my chest. I felt so delicate, precious and beautiful. It was truly amazing being able fully let go and feeling myself and appreciating who I am. I have been practicing Esoteric Yoga every day after the retreat and I am inspired to join an online course to support me to continue on with connecting with my stillness and who I am.

138. Very beautifully shared Lyndy, I do love the feeling of being in true stillness, completely in my body and in the moment. It is great to be this way and feel my body in full. But often when I get rushed and go into what to do mode, I lose it but the tools Universal Medicine provide like esoteric yoga and the gentle breath meditation are a great way to come back.

139. This is such a beautiful blog Lyndy
     Thank you for the reminder to honour our “precious lighthouse” through the stillness of Yoga.
     “Through the beauty of this stillness I have been able to feel myself again”.

140. “What comes to me in life may not always be pleasant or easy but what I’ve discovered is if I carry a known space from my body out, I remain knowing who I am and what I stand for” I agree Lyndy. Truly healing blog and thank you for presenting how being in stillness has changed your life. Its amazing how many forms that mental drive comes in, and how its so different to the quality of allowing the body to be and letting IT guide our choices, rather than what we have in our minds first, which is void of that presence and stillness that we can have in our bodies.

141. Thanks for sharing Lindy, Esoteric Yoga is such a beautiful, powerful modality.

142. Beautifully shared, Lyndy. I too have experienced Esoteric Yoga at the Retreats and online which now supports me in coming back to the stillness in my body.

143. Awesome Lyndy, I experienced Esoteric Yoya for the first time at the 2015 Retreat at Lennox Heads. I have learnt to connected to my body on a deeper level, connect to stillness and appreciating how I feel in my body. I am now inspired to continue with Esoteric Yoga from my experience and what you have shared in your amazing blog. Thank you.

144. This is so spot on Lyndy. Esoteric yoga has given me the opportunity to re-connect to my stillness and also deeply appreciate and care for this body I live in. The sessions allow me to move with such dedication and connection to myself that I am often amazed by the way it exposes to me every detail about the way I have been moving and living until that point. Esoteric yoga for me is a great re-start, re-fresh and gorgeous way to go deeper in my love for myself.

145. I love what you have written here Lyndy. I too have experienced the huge benefits of Esoteric Yoga. I find it crazy the resistance my mind has sometimes to just letting go, with Esoteric Yoga it offers a great opportunity to let go off all the mental spin and rushing to allow for a deeper connection back to the stillness that resides inside.

     1. I love your comment. I can totally relate to what you have shared. I found it very challenging to let go of my thoughts at first but once I did I got to experience something very amazing and super supportive and that is stillness.

146. When I am being truly present I notice that no energy is squandered and I feel more vitality coming back into my body. Beautifully expressed Lyndy, I have found also that the more present I am, the less tired I am, and the more I can do. Esoteric Yoga has been super supportive in coming back to and feeling the inate stillness within my body; I have tried many yoga’s in the past, I also became a yoga teacher, but nothing brought me back to ‘being in my body’ and actually feeling my body until I found Esoteric Yoga.

147. Beautiful article, a joy to re-read. ‘ if we don’t know stillness, how can we know true movement?’ A great question indeed.

148. So beautiful Lyndy. You share much wisdom here and it is inspiring to feel how your experience with Yoga has enlightened so much wisdom in your life from your body and your presence with You.

149. Thank you Lyndy for your sharing on esoteric yoga. I have attended esoteric yoga classes during a retreat and felt the stillness in parts of my body that I had not felt it in before. I was left with a total feeling of lightness in my arms, and more of a connection to my body. Thanks to esoteric yoga I now have more of an awareness of how my body feels and I can then apply this to how I move and use my body throughout the day.

150. Lyndy, the picture you draw of our body as a precious lighthouse is so beautiful and so very accurate. Standing on its solid rock of pure love, our lighthouse will not only guide us, but with the light it shines be a guiding reflection for others to find their way back home from the darkness and rough seas.

     1. Thank you Michael, your comment has inspired me of the importance to constantly choose love.

     2. Thank you Michael, your comment has brought to my awareness, the importance to constantly choose love as my foundation.

151. Esoteric yoga sounds fabulous! Unfortunately I don’t have the opportunity to join in regular esoteric yoga sessions for geographical reasons. However, I am inspired nonetheless Lyndy by your words ‘When ‘I am being truly present I notice that no energy is squandered and I feel more vitality coming back into my body.’ Here’s to a day ahead filled with many moments of connecting to my stillness!

152. Thank you Lyndy, I love this blog, I know exactly what you mean by connecting to that stillness and living from there – it feels amazing, so natural and such a joyful way to be, there is no need, and mental activity for me has almost gone – everything comes from a knowing and an honouring of listening to the true, clear feelings from my body – not the thoughts in my head. Very much a different way to live and be. Something I am working on.

153. Lyndy, so great to read your article and feel the truth and stillness in your words. I too am a practitioner of Esoteric Yoga, and after about 20-years prior of practicing asana-based ‘yoga’, I feel that I at long last understand what yoga really means.

154. Esoteric yoga is the only yoga for me that has truly supported me in becoming more still and becoming more aware of my body; not only during the class, but in the time between the classes. All the other yogas I have practiced gave me a glimpse of feeling relaxed at the end of the class, and then feeling anxious again straight after. Yoga is not how we feel during the class, but it is about the quality we live in every moment.

155. Ahh that stillness, something I love but still find myself subtlety resisting at times. Thank you Lyndy for sharing your experience of esoteric yoga, I too have found it very revealing to how I’m truly living, a great modality to facilitate true evolution.

156. Beautiful Lyndy, I can totally relate to what you present here. I know when I am in disarray and not connecting to stillness, everything seems so much more difficult and time seems to be lacking. When I allow the time to connect to this stillness it’s like everything takes a step back and I feel more space in my life.

157. ‘If we don’t know stillness then how can we know true movement?’ What a great question to ponder on Lyndy. Esoteric yoga is an amazing and powerful way to reconnect to our body.

     1. I agree Karen its a beautiful question to ponder on!

158. I have not experienced the Esoteric Yoga. From what I have read Esoteric Yoga will be an amazing support for me to develop my awareness and stillness. I will find out more about it. Thank you Lyndy, awesome blog.

159. Lyndy I love your blog and the appreciation of esoteric yoga supporting you to connect to the stillness within us all. I am feeling this stillness is pure gold to how I live. I can choose anxiety or know myself from my stillness and the beautiful quality and power it brings.

     I find how you’ve brought that living stillness into your life that sounds very similar in terms of outside pressures, very inspiring. Your line, ‘what I’ve discovered is if I carry a known space from my body out, I remain knowing who I am and what I stand for. This feels like true liberation indeed!’ is pure gold. I am so grateful to Universal Medicine in supporting me to feel this way of living is a real possibility that I can choose 24/7.

160. Thank you for sharing your experience of esoteric yoga Lyndy. In your writing I can feel the connection you have with your body and the strength and support this provides you throughout your day.

161. The body being referred to as a precious lighthouse is brilliant. Esoteric yoga enabled me to see how hard it was for my body to be in stillness and the mental energy that was running the show. I could feel all the areas that were holding tension and begin to bring focus to this when not doing yoga.

162. I too have felt ‘stillness’ whilst doing Esoteric Yoga. Sometimes it is only fleeting, at others times more sustainable but even the most fleeting experience is so profound that it inspires me to develop it as a new normal way of being. After reading your blog … I am booking into the next available course immediately.

     1. haha me too!

163. I’m absolutely aligning to your sharing, Lyndy. The esoteric yoga is a wonderful tool to get myself into the body, to deepen my relationship with it. And therefore getting a better sense of what it truly needs in action. Ex.: like food, a walk, or rest.

164. This sharing confirms me to truly listen even more closely to my body and to deepen the stillness in my body. Thank you Lyndy.

165. Thank you Lyndy for your sharing , I love your line- ‘If we don’t know stillness how can we know true movement?’

166. Beautiful article Lindy..’if we don’t know stillness, how can we know true movement?’ I so agree. I love connecting to my stillness with esoteric yoga.

167. I can relate to what you write Lyndy. The first time when I did Esoteric Yoga, I was so in the doingness that I had a lot of reactions, said this was a meditation and had nothing to do with movements. So funny looking back at that. I did have a knowing that there was some truth to this yoga, only I just couldn’t let it in…yet. Gradually, I had the same for me very confronting turn around realization. What are my movements about if I don’t have inner stillness? From then on I started to love going to the EY classes and taking the stillness into my daily life. How? Just by connecting to it every morning via my breath. Now I know deeply that it all about this stillness, it is who we are, this subtle pulse flowing through us.

168. So interesting….there were a few paragraphs in this article that I completely blanked out on…about 3 times each. I had to go back and keep re-reading until I was actually present with the words. And low and behold what the words were saying, were describing my momentum and the busyness of life that I get caught up in that stops me from being present. Classic!

169. Thank you Lyndy for this great blog about the importance of Esoteric Yoga: the Yoga of Stillness. The point you made and that tells it all for me is “This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on” and I too can also relate to that. By exercising Esoteric Yoga I have build a new relation with my body that now supports me in my life. It tells me clearly where to go and where not. And as you say, I can now also feel from my body that we are all interconnected and I am now conscious aware that everything I do will have an effect on all of us.

     1. I too connected with this same statement as you, nvanhaastrecht. I really liked the symbolism here, of how esoteric yoga completely turned around Lyndy’s and your appreciation of the body. Experiencing it as a lighthouse, shining the way as opposed to something heavy and burdensome is such a contrast. Although I have only participated in a few esoteric yoga classes, I can understand what is being said here.

170. I have tried many types of yoga in my life, but they soon fell by the wayside, as I found them to be painfull to my body. Esoteric Yoga was a completely different experience for me, my body enjoyed the feeling of being moved with gentleness and awareness, and as a result this is now my Yoga of choice and has become an important part of my life.

171. You have totally summed up the benifits of esoteric yoga thank you Lyndy

172. I agree Lyndy, it’s like the stillness lets me remember, what is truly me. What is different about Esoteric Yoga is that it is not just reserved for a session, or a class but comes into everything you do in a day. That’s what is especially beautiful about what you say – the yoga is also in the act of you writing.

173. Esoteric Yoga has given me a true understanding of what yoga actually is. It has been a way for me to be so completely aware of my body and just relax within myself.
     I’ve never experienced yoga quiet like this – and I really feel the difference in my body when I do it. My circulation has started to improve just by me becoming more aware of my body. I cant believe these little miracles our body brings to us every day.

174. I remember when I first time I signed up for esoteric yoga I thought I was going to an exercise movement class and what I got to experience instead was an incredible stillness that I did not know existed in my body. What I learned was that I could be still and present without checking out and just observe my body, just let myself feel what was going on without a need to fix or change or ask why but just be.

175. I completely relate to your experiences with Esoteric Yoga and have felt in many sessions that it ‘exposes’ the what is not stillness in my life such that I have a point of reference to differentiate between stillness and when busy-ness takes over.

176. Esoteric Yoga brings us to stillness if we are willing to allow it. I guess for many, including myself, I didn’t really know what stillness was until using the Gentle Breath Meditation. That coupled with Esoteric yoga has worked on building that stillness in my body so it is more often with me, even in my busy day job. It is a quality that is not easily described unless one wants to experience it.

177. Wow Lyndy, this is a truly beautifully written blog that needs re reading and is a place to ponder, like looking out on a beautiful scene. It is one that I will return to as a reflective piece. I love the metaphor of the body being like a ‘precious lighthouse!’. Thank you

178. Great blog Lindy. Beautifully written and I can only agree with you about the benefits of Esoteric Yoga. It is great for my body to go into stillness, to know what that is, and the true vitality that has a flow on effect into every area of my life.

179. Esoteric Yoga makes other types of Yoga that I have practiced previously feel like an aerobic class.

     1. Fumiyo, I have the same feeling. After esoteric yoga, all other yoga just does not feel right in my body, they seem like an aerobic workout, no real connection just physical moves.

        1. I agree, and not only do most non esoteric yoga classes seem to be like an aerobic workout, but an acrobat one too, standing on our heads and wrapping our legs around our ears is not conducive to creating stillness!

     2. Yes they do feel aerobic, I can remember I really disliked esoteric yoga for years in fact but I persisted as I knew it was my dislike of what it showed me of how I was living that I was reacting too. I am so glad I did I now love my group yoga sessions when I do a 6 week programme so much is revealed and supported it is invaluable.

        1. I love Esoteric Yoga, it is very revealing of how I have been living. I can remember the pain of the positions in other yoga classes and being told that I wasn’t bending down far enough, I didn’t go back.

180. Hi Lyndy, I have loved reading your article. You write with so much clear authority about your experience of esoteric yoga. I particularly loved your analogy of the lighthouse to the body, this will be a useful reference point for me as I continue to learn to assess where I am at in my body moment by moment. With thanks for sharing.

181. Who would of thought, there inside us all along, this wonderful quality called stillness that brings balance to our lives. I notice when someone walks embodying stillness, there is a quality of grace in their walk. There is a tenderness to every action and no sense of arrogance or being special, but just of being connected to some quality which seems so simple and natural that it feels as if it must be there for anyone to choose.

182. Wow Lyndy you wrote a love letter about the esoteric yoga that feels so wunderbar. It is that through the esoteric yoga – you are now celebrating your body in every aspect of your life – this is an awesome reminder for me and also very inspiring.

183. Thank you for the reminder Lyndy! I remember experiencing true stillness for the first time in an esoteric yoga session. After my body stopped hurting (even though I was just sitting still) I started to get a sense of what it would really be like to offer my body this way of being. So powerful yet somehow in the most subtlest of ways. It is now something that I remind myself of constantly – the stillness within the woman is truly profound.

184. Lyndy I love what you share about Esoteric Yoga being ‘powerful preventative medicine’ – this is so so true. When we connect to ourselves and are able to listen to our bodies for what they are truly saying, the medicine we can apply is profound.

185. Lyndy I can really feel your deep appreciation for esoteric yoga, I have also now a great appreciation for the support it offers in everyday living, what made me reflect most was your sharing about how can we know true movement if we don’t first know stillness. Obvious really yet revelatory at the same time.

186. Gosh your article was and is, medicine for my soul, thank you Lyndy.
     It is stillness that I am yearning for, a way of staying with amazingness I am, throughout my daily activities. and interactions with people.
     I particularly liked when you said,” What I’ve discovered is if I carry a known space from my body out, I remain knowing who I am and what I stand for. This feels like true liberation indeed!”

187. Thank you Lyndy for sharing your experience with esoteric yoga.

188. Beautiful Lyndy, I love how you say “When I am being truly present I notice that no energy is squandered and I feel more vitality coming back into my body.” I too have recognised that when I’m racy and not with myself I can feel very tired, but when I’m totally focussed and with myself I can get just as much work done, if not more, and not have that exhaustion at the end of the day.

189. The moments of stillness and truly being with myself which I have found through Esoteric Yoga have been an amazing marker and inspiration.
     Esoteric Yoga has helped me to just observe what is going on – especially in my body – without judgement. The letting go of the judgement is a big step towards appreciating and loving myself as the wonderful man that I am.

190. Esoteric yoga has to be one of my favourite modalities as it does as you say Lyndy, connect you to your stillness and allows you to truly feel from the body all of the choices and ways of being you have lived. In an instant you feel if you go to your head, but with such simplicity by focus on subtle movement or an area of your body you can return to the true you. I have never experienced such exquisiteness within, from any other yoga and the depth of connection you feel is amazing. This is what always has me returning to esoteric yoga a powerful simple yet amazing modality.

191. Lyndy, I enjoyed reading your blog. I have just recently experienced Esoteric Yoga and have been able to feel the stillness within me during the class and also at times in my everyday life. I have come to realise that with stillness I was able to feel true love, harmony with myself and others and that there was no attachment to anything. This felt like true freedom.

192. In reading this I really appreciate that the movement and expression we have in our body is that which we have built up. So if we create stillness in the body by taking time to stop and listen to it, then the movement and expression we have will embody that quality. This is so simple yet quite profound.

193. Lyndy, I could feel a gentle flow and stillness through your words. It caused me to slow down as I was reading and I then realised that I was not currently working in harmony with my body. Thank you for bringing this fact to my attention.

194. Lyndy reading your blog and the comments I realised that I should go back to the stillness that esoteric yoga lets you experience.

195. I too have found that not only is Esoteric Yoga true medicine, but it allows me to deepen that quality of stillness and connection to myself. It has allowed me to stop and feel during the day the quality I am in, and If I choose, reconnect back to that essence from which any activities then I may do flow without draining me.

196. I agree Lyndy Esoteric Yoga is true medicine, if every one adhered to this, people and the world would be vastly different…..one day in the far far future!!!

197. I agree Lyndy Esoteric Yoga is true medicine if every one adhered to this, people and the world would be a vastly different…..one day in far far future!!!

198. I love what you said about ‘the way I live is constantly impacting not only on my own wellbeing and bodily health, but also other people’s wellbeing and the environment around me’. I can so feel that I know this to be true but at the same time I don’t wont to hear it, as it means bringing a much greater level of responsibility to everything that I do.

199. An awesome endorsement of a wondrous modality, Esoteric Yoga. And thank you for confirming “that everything that I am, do and think is not just about me, but also about all of us”. I found this to be true just this morning when something I had been indulging in was reflected back to me by a shop assistant. Through his reflection I could see and feel how out of place and harming my own behaviour had been.

200. This is such an important statement: “We move and speak using the energy that is already present in the body – and if that energy is in disarray, then our movement and expression will be of that same quality.” Esoteric Yoga is a wonderful support in deeply connecting to our body and feeling the difference in the energy we choose. This provides an opportunity for us to develop a greater awareness as we live our daily lives. What a remarkable gift.

201. I have found in esoteric yoga previously uncharted levels of stillness within my body. I find the sessions are deeply nurturing and often reveal all kinds of insights at a physical and profound level. I love what you have shared, Lyndy about your process and taking it out into every situation.

     1. Esoteric yoga has brought to me a marker or opportunity to experience what it is to be in my body. From this experience I have been able to more honestly acknowledge when I am reacting, getting defensive or checking out. Along with connecting to my breath through gentle breath meditation, it has shown me what true responsibility is. Great blog, thanks for encapsulating the outcomes of this amazing modality.

202. Loved your blog Lyndy. I too have found Esoteric Yoga an amazing medicine and an opportunity to feel stillness in my body. I love that there is no performance or trying to achieve, unlike other yoga classes I have attended in the past. It is true connection.

203. A beautiful article Lindy. “The stillness I have found through Esoteric Yoga has been to me a true medicine. This medicine feels like a powerful preventative medicine – it has brought a deeper and richer sense of health and wellbeing than I have previously known.” I echo this sentiment. This form of yoga truly supports me throughout my day.

204. Esoteric Yoga is the most wonderful, practical modality where there are no goals and no trying to get somewhere. It is simply a time to surrender, let go of the constant vigilance we carry for what ‘might’ happen and allow ourselves to feel and become still. This is a rare gift in society today, where we are so driven and busy. When made a way of life this creates a ripple effect into all aspects of practical life. I have found this to be such a supportive modality, which has allowed me to make lasting, positive changes in my life and supports me to keep growing and getting to know the real me.

     1. Yes Fiona, in a world which is so driven and busy esoteric yoga offers such a precious space to simply be with ourselves without any goal in the total acceptance of where we are at in that moment. That something so simple can bring such profound changes is worth deeply appreciating and I do.

205. No-one has presented this kind of connection, honesty and truth that only through stillness can we have a connection to ourselves. Only through stillness can we be discerning about what we are doing and why we are doing it. Universal Medicine Therapies, Esoteric Yoga and Serge Benhayon are the first to bring this discussion to me and remind me that I have the power of developing this for myself. This is true medicine and puts the great power of choice right in our hands.

206. Lyndy, I love the way you write, it is very beautiful poetic piece about the body which stood out for me (amongst many): “This body has turned out to be like a precious lighthouse that reveals the dangers and rocks I can get caught on, instead of being a nuisance of a thing I thought I had to drag around with me and feed and put to bed.” You also show clearly the benefits of e-yoga sessions which are profound. Thank you for sharing your stillness.

207. Yoga = Union – the union of body, mind and the divine. It is only by stopping and allowing myself to be still and really feel my body and what my senses are telling me that I have been able to be more at ease with myself and in my life. Being still in my body (this is a quality not a lack of moving) exposes if my mind and my thoughts have been too much in charge or if I’ve let myself stray too far from myself so that my nervous system has to kick in to be responsible for getting me through as situation. Being able to come back to a place of stillness and to develop that to be more my norm has been very freeing as I feel that life is something I observe and respond to rather than something that happens and then I react to. The former is supportive and the later exhausting and now I can feel the difference between the two I have the ability to choose how I would like to be. And if I am struggling with this I have the opportunity to regather myself by being in yoga.

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