264 thoughts on “Benefits of Esoteric Yoga – Don’t Judge A Book by Its Cover”

1. I used to also be hesitant if not resistant towards Esoteric Yoga. In truth that was me avoiding feeling the reality of just how ragged I had been running my body and abusing myself.

2. All the esoteric modalities feel pretty simple and they are, but are able to reach a depth like nothing else

3. I recently read about Goat Yoga – as the title suggested, you do yoga posses with a goat on your back, but don’t ask me how the presence of the goat is in any way more supportive in you connecting to yourself. To me yoga is simple, but profound and needs nothing added extra

4. Having just done an Esoteric Yoga session I can second all that is offered here; I went into this session feeling tired, achy and hurt and I just honoured and accepted what my body offered to me and in doing so I now feel a greater openness and and expansion in me, an acceptance of all my body is saying and an understanding on a deeper level of grace and stillness and how I am supported in this. I just feel yummy in my body. I cannot highly recommend this modality enough, it’s an absolute gift for all of us.

5. If we’ve strayed away from stillness, our innate essence. Esoteric Yoga sessions exposes this very quickly. Raciness, restlessness all come to the surface when we lie down on the mat or bed and attempt to connect to a single movement, or part of the body. One esoteric yoga practitioner asked at the start of a session ” are you coming to the session to bring yourself back or confirm your quality of living?.’ Without perfection, we can choose to use it to confirm and expand or rely on it as a crutch. No judgement made, just something to reflect on.

6. ‘In fact I would go so far as to say that it is the foundation of true vitality’. This is a powerful statement, one I agree with having experienced many times the profound healing effects of Esoteric Yoga. After a one hour session I always feel so light, spacious, with a deeper connection to my beingness.

7. Esoteric yoga has supported me to reconnect to stillness in my body rather than in constant motion. In the last session gentleness was introduced and now I am feeling how much hardness I use to get through the day and now my body is saying this is not acceptable and I need to take more loving care of it. To me it’s like learning to walk again.

8. Developing a deeply honest relationship with my body and all that it communicates has been paramount in developing an honouring relationship with my essence, who I really am. As with this, I now live with a greater and richer sense of who I am, guided by my connection to what I feel is true, all possible through the connection to and honouring of the wisdom and intelligence of the body.

9. Esoteric Yoga was one ‘book’ that I did initially judge by its cover so at the beginning was convinced I would not open it and read further. But something was calling me to open it, so I did and 10 years later I can say that it is one of the best ‘books’ I have ever read – and as a result my relationship with my body has blossomed beyond recognition, and so has my life.

10. It is funny (not) how much difficulty we have with simplicity whereas we love to indulge in complexity. Simplicity is where genius and health lays.

11. Just like we can judge a book by its cover, we tend to judge people or things by what we can recognise from outside by seeing or hearing and often we taint it with preconceptions by comparison and interpretation. With so many things, but especially the Esoteric Yoga we are well advised to not get stuck on the outer form, but to look and feel inside because the real deal is happening within and only visible when we allow ourselves to feel first. And that is key to Esoteric Yoga: building the connection to our innermost through presence and awareness with our body and from within bringing the quality to the movement as an external expression and magnification.

12. Simple things are often under-rated and dismissed or not truly appreciated because of their simplicity!

13. When I first participated in Yoga in 2014, my body was that fidgety I didn’t see the purpose of it, it had got used to a rhythm of drive, running etc.

    Since then I did Esoteric Yoga again and this modality not only connects me to me, but I realised how my body is braced and I feel the tensions releasing or I became more aware of the bracing I hold in whichever part of my body. I just love this yoga so much that at times I partake in more than one program at a time – I love the stillness it brings in my body.

14. It was definitely worth the wait to discover Esoteric Yoga as all else seamed like it never worked for me. Now to listen and feel our body with what it brings to us is amazing and should be a natural program introduced into schools.

15. It is almost impossible to continue to ignore how our body is truly feeling during an Esoteric Yoga session, and why would we want to?. We are faced with our body’s honesty, without judgement, which then offers us the opportunity to connect and listen to the messages it is giving us. In one hour we can be shown so much about how we have been living and by connecting to the beautiful stillness that ensues we are shown how it is possible to heal all that is waiting to be healed.

16. I am intrigued at how people find the time for themselves in a day to do anything, yoga, exercise, anything that is just for them. My life feels so full with the kids, reading blogs, writing on them, walking the dog, my businesses and meals for the family and then all the time in the day is gone, then the week and then the year. I hope one day I find the time to enjoy this modality again.

    1. One of my favourite moments of the day is walking down corridors, for example getting up from my desk to go the toilet and enjoying my walk. Yoga is very much about everyday life and we can be present in any and every moment and movement. What better time to let go than on the loo.

17. The message for me is it is natural for our body to want to feel its yumminess and gorgeousness and any situation when we do not feel this, we are looking for all ways to return to it.

18. Esoteric Yoga – Yoga of Stillness offers me the opportunity to be at one with the stillness within.

19. The innate intelligence of our body is truly awesome and worth giving ourselves the space to re-connect with!

20. It is through the simplicity and deep awareness of our movements that we know ourselves for the true nature of who we are, this is a great tool at our disposal as in truth we are not from here and deep down we all are the stillness of God within.

21. Feeling the stillness, a gentle undulating rhythmic pulse within my body following a session of Esoteric Yoga is feeling the lovely space that does and is residing already within me..I feel so spacious and silently capable afterwards; it is a refresh to the next moment in my day.

22. For me, Esoteric Yoga has been the doorway to a relationship with my body, and me, that I never thought was possible. It is a relationship that grows with each session and one that I know will keep on evolving as long as I continue my commitment to bring my body all the love and respect that it lacked for way too long.

23. I have thought of the body as a hunk of meat that merely functions and that it is the brain that really lives life. Esoteric Yoga has deepened my own understanding and connection with my body, showing that the body is the key to the vitality and aliveness in life and certainly not the mind on its own!

24. Spot on with your highlights of Esoteric Yoga and what it offers I feel you have expressed everything this modality supports.

25. I find it so powerful when I connect to the level of delicateness within my body that it is not different to that of a baby, for it is only then that I know true stillness within me and the connection to the divine is there available to me at all times to be reflected through the quality of my movements for the good of all, and this is true alchemy at work!

26. I experienced an Esoteric Yoga session recently and it was a deep support towards the movements my body has made the choice to move towards, and as a consequence, it brought me back to a very centred and still place within myself too, clearly and in awareness as well as in steadiness bring these movements to life.

27. “I am in awe of how the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony when I choose to get out of the way and treat my body in a most caring and respectful way” I am amazed that when i have gone into stress or anxiety if I choose then to treat myself with tenderness and loving care I am again brought back into harmony with my body.

28. Yes on the surface of it during an Esoteric Yoga session it could appear like not much is happening as there are only a few movements and no major poses or stretches or contortions! However I have found it incredibly profound and powerful because there is a real focus on the quality of connection with my body and then the quality of my movements which does feel absolutely delicious and very revealing.

    1. Agreed Andrew, and adding another attribute, it allows you to slow down so we can feel the connection with the quality you have shared.

29. Esoteric Yoga is one of the most amazing modalities that I have ever experienced. In its simplicity, I have been able to again connect to my body and the beauty of the being that I am within my body. To honestly feel the day to day normal life we all live, in the body is so very revealing, much of what we have believed to be normal in how we treat our body is in fact hardening, stressing and tensing our bodies. To feel how we live is contributing to the pain or tension in our body is not a criticism, but a divine gift, for we can adjust, change and move differently in our body and lessen the tension and pain, this modality reminds us that we have a choice as to how we live in our body.

30. The deeper I go to connecting to my body the more I am shown that which does not support me. Esoteric Yoga supports me to go deeper helping me to let go to feel more of the real me… there is always more and not to stay comfortable with where I am at.

31. Giving ourselves the time and opportunity to really tune in with our body and way of moving is very worthwhile – we have the opportunity with that to be more aware of how our body is feeling and what it is communicating with us – something that we can then take back into our daily life with us.

32. I can relate to all of these benefits of Esoteric Yoga. Practising regularly makes me feel more relaxed on a very deep body level. It stops the raciness, the constant motion and provides instant feedback on how I’ve been living as well as an opportunity to connect to a deeper stillness that resides underneath everything else – the emotions, the protections and the hurts – all temporary and surface layers that don’t belong to the core of who we are.

    1. So True Bryony, how often do we take time to “stop the raciness”? With Esoteric Yoga we have the perfect modality to put the breaks on.

33. While reading these lines; ‘The spaciousness, openness and gentle quality that is felt in my body is achieved without any stretching or contorting. It reminds me that this is most likely how we felt as babies – so open and feeling the preciousness and tenderness that is perfectly natural.’ I could feel how my body was going into the quality you’ve described here, just by being present and allowing to feel my body it could open up to the natural tenderness I know is inside me from day one.

34. Esoteric Yoga allows us to reconnect to what lives within, it is a true marker of what can be lived at all times if we so choose to let go of the mental constraints of the world and embrace the light of our soul.

    1. Well when you put it like that why on earth wouldn’t we choose to let go of the mental constraints and embrace the light of our Soul? Perhaps read this for a clue: http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-spirit.html

35. A glowing testament that comes from someone who seems to have been there and done that. I haven’t travelled the world of Yoga that extensively but I don’t know what I feel and my body has never been better in my life which is largely thanks to this quality of Yoga, Esoteric Yoga. I am not saying it’s better then the rest but what I am saying is that as far as anything I have done, the quality of this modality is key and stands out by far.

36. I have for countless years be disconnected to my body and I have been told by numerous Universal Medicine practitioners that I can feel my body and I disputed this because I couldn’t. It didn’t stop me from trying and eventually through yoga I could sense there was more to me than I was allowing myself to feel. I realised I was actually fighting myself and the deep awareness that actually we all naturally have but have buried somewhere in our bodies out of sight out of mind so to say.
    Esoteric Yoga has enabled me to reconnect to the vastness of who I truly am. I may not hold this in my body all the time but at least I have a marker in my body I can work with and of course the Universal Medicine practitioners were correct – I can feel, I can feel everything that is going on in the world, actually this is the level of sensitivity we all carry in our bodies. I have chosen to switch all of this off because I don’t want to feel all the abuse and ill will we have towards each other and to know I have played my part in all of the discontent that we have in the world.

    1. Your comment Mary reminds me I use to be this way too: disconnected from feelings and believing I couldn’t feel my body. This has now changed and it supports me to acknowledge and appreciate this. Sensitivity is a great quality to have as long as we’re not controlled by it. As Serge often says we can be in the world, but not of the world.

37. Me too, Esoteric yoga is very rich in it’s simplicity and the quality it presents and the positive results it can bring to our bodies is endless.

38. I spent years addicted to a very physical and vigorous form of yoga, I even trained to be a teacher with this school. But not once in all this time did I ever experience the deep surrender and connection to my body as I have with the Esoteric Yoga modality – I agree it is Heaven sent.

39. After years of resisting Esoteric Yoga, this year I feel in love with it. It is deeply profound. No other yoga modality I know supports us to reconnect and stay in our body in this way. In fact in my experience, doing the asanas/poses in other forms of yoga, it was all about looking good, not how I was feeling within.

40. It is a testament to this healing modality and the revelation it offers, that you can in such a short time feel the immensity of our divine power in simply being still and being aware of our connection to our body and being, and the wisdom that is held therein.

41. Esoteric Yoga is a space of total dedication to one’s spaciousness while connecting to the everything we belong to.

42. Esoteric Yoga is so simple and it offers us the opportunity to observe how we are in our bodies, not to fix anything and to see and feel that how we move can impact so profoundly on our bodies and how we are. It’s a modality I fall in love with more deeply each time I do it, it’s super simple and deeply honouring of the body.

43. I haven’t done a lot of Esoteric Yoga, and when I do do it, it’s often with long periods of not doing it in between. I am currently doing a 4 week program and I’ve noticed how different it is every time I re-visit it. I’m so much more allowing of resting my body in that time as opposed to when I first did it and was climbing the walls as I couldn’t handle the level of stillness it was asking me to go to.

44. It’s true the mind cannot fathom how sitting up and laying down and adjusting your clothes can be life changing. But once experienced in the body you don’t need the mind to understand it, the feeling in the body says it all.

45. “I am in awe of how the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony when I choose to get out of the way and treat my body in a most caring and respectful way…” – I hear you loud and clear, and couldn’t agree more. My body doesn’t need a big blow, a little nudge, or even just an intention of it, is enough for it to register something is not in full support of it. I am so learning to get out of its way.

46. I have been doing some yoga just before I go to bed and have found that my sleep has improved incredibly. I fall asleep with so much ease and wake up rested like I never have before.

47. Every aspect of Esoteric Yoga can be used in our everyday movements to confirm the deep connection we all have with God. As Yoga is union, so why not feel the divine connection in all we do. When opened up to our divine connection there is a full-ness that is felt in the heart and when this is maintained we become re-connected (religious) with the Soul and this is a complete lack of emptiness.

48. I used to not like Esoteric Yoga at all! Looking back it was the stillness that made me uncomfortable. So much lies in stillness when we connect to it and allow ourselves to be in it. Yet in my case, I was so used to constant doing and motion that the stillness caused a bit of a freak out.

49. Esoteric Yoga stands alone in the amount of healing that is on offer when we connect to and feel deeply what the body is offering. during it we are brought into the stillness harmony and love that is our natural state, we can also feel what it is we are holding in our bodies that need to be cleared for us to go deeper. It is indeed a modality sent from heaven.

50. When the body is allowed space it naturally starts to energetically realign without any effort what so ever. Esoteric Yoga gives us the opportunity to reconnect and ‘be’ in our bodies without any imposition. It is very nourishing.

51. Esoteric Yoga is unlike any other Yoga I have come across because it is not about us controlling the body to get into and keep certain poses and then to better them, it is not about looking any particular way or fitting into an image of any kind. It does not introduce, cats, goats, chocolate or anything extraneous like a lot of ‘yogas ‘ do. It is extremely simple and in its simplicity it allows the body the space to realign itself naturally. It often feels very strange at first and can bring up awareness of things in our lives that we have chosen to ignore. The body itself can feel uncomfortable as it shows us and lets us feel more than what is on the surface and it can begin to let go of old ways that have not been supporting it. We get to feel ourselves on another level. We get to find out more of our inside story and are no longer content to just focus on the outside cover.

52. It is very profound what can happen in an Esoteric Yoga session, in a relatively short period of time I can feel completely transformed, in tune with my body, connected to what feels like a very heavenly flow of energy and move into my day quite differently. All of this from being with me.

53. I have had a strong resistance to Esoteric Yoga – up until yesterday that is, when I had a one to one session and let myself be open and feel whatever there was to be felt. I started the session feeling protected and pretty weepy and pathetic from my week, but in a few minutes I was feeling connected to my body in a deeply powerful way. I have fallen in love with Esoteric Yoga and in doing so have fallen in love with myself.

54. I love these yoga sessions because they bring you back into your body, not your head and this changes your day. I find I am much more aware of my movements and hold myself in more tenderness and awareness and then feel more energised and less drained at the end of the day.

    1. 5. The mind has got a great gig, it’s intelligence is considered superior and is not challenged, yet it runs the body it is part of into the ground. Self destruction is not very intelligent even if you’re a professor of algebra! Learning about whole body intelligence through Universal Medicine has been truly wonderful, and Esoteric Yoga really supports the reconnection to the wisdom of the body.

55. Indeed, the ‘cover’ of simplicity of the presentation of Esoteric Yoga is EXACTLY what reveals how potent it truly is. To live, move and be with simplicity is a marker of our mastery in life, of living with the fire and love of our soul in our everyday…
    I am hesitant to say in the first place, that there is actually anything that may be ‘judged’ here… though very much appreciate the sentiment. If we judge what is lived as simplicity in its true essence, then that in itself is a marker for how far from our own love (and perhaps ‘into our heads’…) that we have strayed…

56. There is indeed so much that the modality of Esoteric Yoga offers us – especially in these times where running on nervous energy and oftentimes pushing our bodies beyond exhaustion, is so commonplace.
    To return to the knowing of one’s innate stillness… this is profound, and has no ‘end point’. Every day I learn more from the foundational tenets of this modality. It has become a resource for an ever-deepening relationship with myself and my body, and how I move and go about the living of life, that is valuable beyond measure.

57. If I’m all over the place and my body is showing me or if I’m generally connected then Esoteric Yoga always confirms this for me. and I am left to feel where I am and surrender more.

58. This certainly blows out of the water what we assume “yoga” to be. I gave a style of yoga a go many years ago. At first I was embarrassed to let my friends know that I did yoga and so I did it at home. The focus was then on stretching my body into all manner of poses to make it feel better and also give me mind a rest from the relentless thoughts it had back then. When I was introduced to Esoteric Yoga I slept through that many sessions that it became funny. How could something so gentle be so so good for you. I kept going back to it and a times I would actually stay awake. I couldn’t go past how this modality felt in my body, it was just so so lovely to feel. I was amazed, in a world that I thought you needed to push through there was something that went against that grain and gave you a truly settled body.

    1. I am sure our first Esoteric Yoga presenter thought we were having a competition to see who could snore the loudest some 10 plus years ago when I was first intruded to this modality. So as you have shared Ray ‘I slept through that many sessions that it became funny.’ Eventually when our bodies are felt in full our movements confirm our divine connection and the body starts to flow to a rhythm that feels full of the joys of life. Our divine connection being the full-ness that is felt in the heart and when this is maintained we become re-connected in union with the Soul and this is a complete lack of emptiness so our movements are in Yoga.

59. Yes don’t judge something by its cover until we have tried it and thus lived it in full.

60. Of late I am experiencing a powerful adjustment in my awareness of my body and what I allow to be within it. The reality is that I have a choice in every moment to hold my body in the grandness that resides within or to allow my body to “collapse” so as not to represent who I am in truth. Esoteric Yoga has been a major resource in feeling the grandness and knowing that it is real, not because someone has told me that is who I am, but because I have felt it, and can now make the choice to hold myself from it.

61. The world as we know it today is quite in your face and close up, and with the emotions that color our day we can feel very imposed upon. But Esoteric Yoga allows us to bring a stop to all that overwhelm and blesses us with the opportunity to feel a spaciousness and lightness to our body which in today’s world is literally a breath of fresh air.

62. Esoteric Yoga is profound yet it is so simple – the simplicity blows me away.

    1. Yes, me too! To know that a simple lift of the knee is yoga, rather than the complicated, strenuous movements taught in gyms is just incredible.

63. If we were to compare all the different yoga varieties currently on the market via a demonstration, it would be easy to see how Esoteric Yoga stands out – and as an observer, you’d wonder if it was a joke or not, because nothing happens! There is so little movement, you’d be right in wanting to asking a million questions about it. It’s the only yoga I’ve tried where I’ve been so uncomfortable so challenged that I’ve wanted to run a mile. Why? Because it asks nothing of me, and at the same time asks me to be nothing but myself, which, when we don’t connect to on a daily basis can be painful! There are no distractions with stretches etc, it’s literally focusing on the union between the body and the mind in the energy of stillness. It’s challenging but also very exposing and for those willing to get a sense of how their body feels without all the layers of protection and the distractions of busyness, this is a highly recommended modality.

64. If we judge something before we truly connect to it, then what we do in the next moment already comes polluted with the harmful energy of judgement that potentially blocks us from experiencing the truth of what is offered. The beauty is it is always possible to let go of judgment in an instant which is always a choice we are able to make at any moment.

65. The body is very honest and shows indeed all our choices when we lay down on our mat to ‘do’ Esoteric Yoga. When we go out of the way by not following our so called ‘intelligent’ mind and surrender, simplicity takes over, the simplicity of the format supports the simplicity the body loves and within this space the body shows us our natural state of being.

66. There is nothing and I mean NOTHING about esoteric yoga that is not utterly loving and supportive. There is no right or wrong with how the session goes, just simply pure loving truth of how we have been living shown back to us and at the same time re-minding us of the natural exquisiteness of who we truly are.

    1. Couldn’t agree more Joshua, and another thing that I Love Esoteric Yoga for is that with there being no right or wrong, there also can be no pictures, ideals and beliefs, only what is there and what is true. Everything so lovingly gets revealed every time.

67. Esoteric Yoga allows us to experience the true space and flow within our bodies once we get ourselves out of the way and can meet life through sensing rather than thinking which creates the tensions and hardness of needing to control life rather than surrendering to what is divine and appropriate for our own evolution.

68. Esoteric Yoga is indeed profound, the simple movements can change how I feel in my body completely, even if I think it is not possible to change how I feel, it simply does.

69. “In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is the foundation of true vitality.” I totally agree with this as Esoteric Yoga allows us to connect to that which is a true movement in our bodies exposing the harms of living in constant nervous energy on our health and wellbeing. It is this consistency of movement that regenerates us and connects us to something truly divine within ourselves where there is no need to push through life, just a deep surrender to what is.

70. I had a one to one Esoteric Yoga session the other day. It revealed much about my attitude to life that my practitioner picked up and talked to me about at the end. It is simple yet very profound and I appreciate choosing to have sessions where I give myself permission to stop and observe how I am.

71. I agree wholeheartedly. Esoteric Yoga has been and continues to be a mainstay of support. The practice of yoga in this way makes it impossible to not feel our choices, as we connect deeply to the body and are given the opportunity to feel who we really are, as opposed to how we actually live our lives. I, personally can feel gaps between the two and know from experience that Esoteric Yoga not only provides the stillness to feel these gaps but in such grace also offers powerful insights into how to bring the two into alignment.

72. “I am in awe of how the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony …” how true. We are taught the value of intelligence that comes from knowledge we learn, yet the body has a profound intelligence that if listened to can restore wellbeing and vitality. Respecting and honouring the body is a great foundation for life.

73. Esoteric yoga seems to me to strengthen the two way communication between us and heaven that is actually always available but simply hampered by an astounding amount of white noise.

74. Esoteric Yoga is a slice of a person’s day laid on a slab for them to look at under an illuminating lamp. Yes, technically we could look at every hour of every day in this way but generally we are too distracted or disconnected to notice in detail what is going on. It’s so beneficial to feel something in the body during an Esoteric Yoga session and then to take that awareness back into our everyday lives and ‘watch’ for when it shows up. Eventually we observe a pattern and then have the ability to address it. Powerful, powerful stuff.

    1. I get this Alexis, I have found doing Esoteric yoga is illuminating, it shows me the way I am living. Often when I do it I can be fidgety and unsettled, and other times completely relaxed and still. It is not by chance these two differing states arise, it all occurs from how I am living, what choices I have made and how much I have allowed the outside world to govern how I feel.

       1. Stephen you are spot on when you say ‘how much I have allowed the outside world to govern how I feel’ as most of us live at the constant mercy of the outside world. We are continually tossed on the turbulent sea of emotion. If we want to steer a steady course then it’s imperative to stay as connected to ourselves as possible so that we start to really get to know when and what leads us into emotion. The body can then flag the situation and next time it arises the body is able to give us a heads up and that invaluable warning allows us the space to choose to react differently. Slowly over time life begins to smooth out and become far less emotional.

       2. It is hard to fathom that we could choose to live fidgety and unsettled when there is a stillness, an ease and relaxed way to be isn’t it?! Yet, I reckon, my ‘normal’ has been far more in the fidgety and unsettled. This practice is so simple yet it offers a window through which we can observe our own ‘normal’ and once felt in the body, will offer a pull back to that stillness that is more and more familiar till the fidgety and tension is the abnormal.

       3. To further this I notice within myself there are two options, I either decide to engage in movement that leaves me unsettled, like engage in talk about another behind their back, or I opt for a settled observation of all, not enjoining the rush and turmoil. The latter is a place of surrender, not caught in the tension of acting unnaturally, but instead connected to how I can feel I am born to live, free from emotional tension.

75. “…the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony..” This I have found to be so true when I have participated in Esoteric Yoga. This modality has no imposition or demands, but simply supports you to come to a stillness and reconnection to love that is literally a drop in the ocean of the infinite grandness there is available.

    1. I love the quote in your comment Johannebrown17. Esoteric Yoga supports us to truly reconnect to our body and reconnect to its natural rhythm and intelligence. Our natural ability to connect to harmony is always present. Esoteric Yoga very powerfully and simply reminds us to reconnect to what is already there and available to access.

76. Esoteric Yoga is completely different to any other forms of ‘yoga’ I have known. I know deep within this amazing modality can help to reconnect and reclaim the quality of stillness we hold within our body but if I am honest have had a little bit of an aversion to it!!!! Which I guess shows me I have had an aversion to truly wanting to connect to the quality of stillness and therefore sacredness within my own body. However, it is really lovely to feel how my relationship with this has changed over the period of the Universal Medicine retreat where Esoteric Yoga in incorporated twice a day and I know that my relationship with Esoteric Yoga and my own body will only deepen and evolve from here.

    1. I can really relate to this as I absolutely hated Esoteric Yoga when first introduced to it, and that was at a retreat, twice a day for five days (although I don’t remember going to all of them). These days I absolutely love it! The more I kept repeatedly returning to connecting and feeling my body in my daily life the aversion started to melt away. Because it’s more of what I let in (emotions etc) that I didn’t want to feel.

       1. I can relate Leigh. I can see now that when I didn’t like it I simply didn’t want to take responsibility for how I felt within, and certainly didn’t want to take responsibility for feeling it for a whole hour!

77. Esoteric Yoga is not just a self-healing modality in regard to applying it to oneself but also in fully acknowledging the natural re-harmonizing of the body once we simply stop imposing on it behaviours and attitudes that otherwise disturb this most natural and consistently proceeding process. Effectively we give the body space to ‘do its thing’ and thereby get to know and honour the intelligence it holds.

    1. When you share that it is not just a self-healing modality Alex, I just felt the ripple effect of one person choosing not to carry all that tension around in their bodies. That what we put out in our movements and our expressions is so different when we make space to be responsible for our own level of tension first. I know I hug differently when I am relaxed and when I am stressed, I know I answer a question differently too, I would say I even hear things differently. So making space to re-connect through Esoteric Yoga is for all not just the one.

78. Yes, I could not comprehend just how much stillness I felt after my first session of Yoga. I remember going into the bathroom to brush my teeth, holding the toothpaste and just being amazed at how much I can feel the toothpaste in my hand – mind blowing!

79. This modality has blown me away with what it offers. It’s been the modality I resist the most and yet one of my most enjoyed. I Can feel it’s something that will support me for many years to come.

80. I agree that the Esoteric Yoga modality is the ‘foundation of true vitality’ as it offers the space to deeply connect to our bodies and allow harmony and healing on a profound level which is ever deepening. Truly heaven sent.

81. “Esoteric Yoga is a self-healing modality that can be done anytime, anywhere and it epitomises the truth of yoga.” Esoteric Yoga is a great way to start the day – bring stillness and connection to oneself – and is such a practical way to support daily living.

82. More and more I am able to connect to the absolute beauty of simplicity when I am connected to my body. And my body loves this simplicity, it gives it space to be, it is only my mind that can make life complex and intense.

83. Esoteric yoga brings an honesty to how I’ve been with myself in my day-to-day life. When you take a complete stop to feel and be with your body, you get to feel exactly where you’re at. Sometimes this can be very confirming and at other times, it shows how tired or depleted we are. Either way, it’s a marker and there is no doubt as to how your body feels.

84. “it is almost too difficult to fathom how something so simple could be so amazing in what it offers the body, and the being, and how one feels!” I am starting to realise the shear magic in simplicity. Simplicity offers us so much when we let go of our need to complicate things.Life becomes so much more fun. It is through simplicity we find God.

    1. Yes Samantha, definitely! Simplicity brings such clarity and openness.

85. Esoteric Yoga has allowed me to deepen my connection with my body, and each time I have an opportunity to feel how my choices have affected my body through the lack of connection or the hardness that I feel within my body.

86. The comparison of Esoteric Yoga with the freedom we embody as babies is very apt. What a marvellous space to return to, full of the same joy we can see in infants when they are relaxed and happy. How wonderful to have a tool that allows us to discard the layers we’ve imposed on ourselves – or allowed others to impose on us – as adults and return to the love and stillness we most assuredly and naturally are!

87. Esoteric Yoga is very different from any other kind of yoga that I have tried – in the level of connection and awareness of my body and being that it engenders and the supportive ripple effect this has on how I live the rest of my life.

    1. Absolutely Fiona, I have done a lot of yoga in the past, mostly Hatha but have never had the sort of experience I now have with Esoteric Yoga. Understanding that yoga is about union, which is first and foremost about the connection I have with divinity, which is connected to in my own body… was life-changing, and yes, most definitely changes the quality I can feel within me every day I practise it. That is what is life-changing about it… day by day a ripple effect, as you say.

88. Because of its very simplicity, Esoteric Yoga is an profound self-healing modality – “the simplicity of the Esoteric Yoga format does not allude to the depth and power of what can be felt in the body in a 1 hour session that is in the most part laying down, being still and creating the space to feel the body.”

89. Esoteric Yoga is so simple and initially on doing it I was not sure as my mind went into reaction with thoughts of ‘it can’t be this simple’, yet I stuck with it, and over time it’s completely changed how I am with my body, and shown me how simple movements made in connection change everything. It truly is a gift from heaven.

90. Esoteric Yoga offers a space for the body to do its work without any imposition. It is a natural compliment to how the body naturally wants to be in balance.

91. The beauty I find with Esoteric Yoga is once the re-connection is made to the stillness within, you can take that quality with you in everything you do; life itself becomes yoga, living in union.

92. I have loved developing a relationship with esoteric yoga, it has deepened over the years and as simple as the format seems, what transpires in every session is groundbreaking.

93. ‘There is an absolute honesty that I am shown during each session that allows me to look at the way I am choosing to live’. Expressed very simply and truly. This has been my experience of Esoteric Yoga too. It also shows us how to connect to our true still nature and bring the same quality into our daily lives.

94. Esoteric Yoga is a powerful modality that brings you back to your inner stillness – and shows us clearly where and how often we may lose connection to our inner being.

    1. Agree Mary esoteric yoga is the rock in the sand offering a clear marker of where the tide is.

95. Reading a couple of blogs on yoga is making me want to start it up again. It truly is innovative way of bringing the body back to connection and stillness, this quality of movement can then be taken with you all day if you choose to truly embody the session.

96. On the outside Esoteric Yoga looks like nothing is happening and you are just having a rest! On the inside, union, connection, expansion and love.

97. The profoundness of Esoteric Yoga is absolutely found in its simplicity whereby all it takes for us to connect to the body and feel the space of who we are is to simply stop and allow time to feel. I think that’s one of the important keys of Esoteric Yoga, it’s like a training session for how to stop, feel and move in a way that has no force but a simple flow of yumminess that we all innately have within.

98. I also find the simplicity of esoteric yoga really supportive in developing greater body awareness – because I’m not concentrating on doing lots of different moves or complicated things it gives me the space to connect more with just how my body feels as I move and lay or sit still.

99. The wisdom of our body is very commonly overlooked and under appreciated but it is well worth making the space to connect more deeply with it and see what it has to show us…

100. Esoteric Yoga is an incredible modality. I’ve experienced times of feeling very tired before the session and coming out of the session feeling like I’ve just had the best night’s sleep of my life, and feeling energised and revitalised. And it is simply by connecting deeper with my body during the session and feeling how I’ve been living up to that point.

101. This is such an accurate account of the benefits of Esoteric Yoga and sums up my experience of it to a tee. It is heaven sent for sure, as it allows us to re-connect to a natural harmony and spaciousness in the body (and mind) that gets lost when we become too invested in the temporal life with all its trappings. When I feel out of sorts, the first thing I do is Esoteric Yoga, and it brings me right back to what is true. What greater support can we be given?

102. I love feeling the simple connection of Esoteric Yoga. For my mind it was not active enough and for awhile there I did not understand the value, but my body loved it and once I surrendered to the joy of it, being in the moment was awesome.

103. For the first year, I simply slept through most esoteric yoga sessions I attended. This was not so much because it was boring, but because as a Man I was not used to the simplicity of being one experiences when one brings the body to a complete stop, and one is not asked of anything from the world. At first it is uncomfortable, and yet once one gets over that initial discomfort, it is extremely inviting to feel that inner connection – so inviting and so lovely infact that often one finds themselves surrendering so much that they fall asleep. Of course, the other reason for doing so can simply be exhaustion – and sometimes it can be both.

104. Many years ago when I was first introduced to the Esoteric Yoga and having done other forms of Yoga for many years I found the experience excruciating for many reasons, mainly because it was bringing me back to stillness in my body which I resisting, and highlighted very clearly all of the aches and pains I had been living with on a daily basis. Now I love my Esoteric Yoga sessions, and yes it still brings things up for me and I still have the odd blip where I miss a session but I can now appreciate the enormous healing which is offered.

105. Following Esoteric Yoga apart from the most glorious grounding in my body and the depth at which I appreciate my body the most remarkable thing is the ‘extraordinary ordinariness’ I feel. It is difficult to put into words but to say that you feel taller and heart expanded does not really cover how it feels. I just feel more like me!

106. “It reminds me how we felt as babies, so open and feeling the tenderness and preciousness as perfectly natural”. To be brought to this awareness by being more present with our bodies is a gift, after years of living with pain and tension in my body, to now feeling spacious and pain free. Esoteric yoga is truly connecting us to what’s really there in the body to be felt. I did many other forms of yoga as well as dance and when I stopped, after 3 months my back literally seized up and I realised what I had been masking and not feeling. Thank you to Esoteric Yoga along with the other healing modalities brought through by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and the many practitioners I have been supported by over the years.

107. It is interesting how much can show up in a simple session of esoteric yoga, while it doesn’t require a lot of movement- it supports me to feel how I am holding my body and where all the tensions lie.

108. Esoteric yoga has been the medium through which I have for the first time met who I truly am and the stillness I am. There is are very few if any other ways I allow the space to truly stop and feel. Esoteric Yoga is a very precious and tender medium that has re-connected me to who I truly am.

109. Esoteric Yoga as a self-healing modality that can be done anywhere is a huge benefit. Traveling in hotels I would find even 10 minutes of time dedicated to myself made a huge difference.

110. I’ve just done some Esoteric Yoga earlier today and what I always feel is a great marker for me is how much (or how little) I am connected to my body. This morning, I found myself going into my head and thinking about other things, and I could feel that this was about me wanting to avoid this connection with my body because there’s some things that I don’t want to feel…

111. The body is the one that holds an intelligence and a wisdom of how to be in life. Unfortunately we live in a world where the mind is trained and championed. Esoteric Yoga has supported me to understand this fact and start to re-build life based on how I feel rather than following the thoughts and mental images that always fall flat.

112. This is one of the most wonderful discoveries about our body by practicing Esoteric Yoga…”the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony when I choose to get out of the way and treat my body in a most caring and respectful way…”

113. Yes who knew what wonders, what revelations are revealed just by lying down, sitting up, lying down. It’s quite incredible and inspires me to reconnect to my natural awareness – what am I not seeing in my everyday life because I’m so accustomed to seeking stimulation and excitement. I miss the real joy of being and observing what there is to observe in the everyday simplicity of life.

114. After a number of years with Iyengar, astanga, chi gong, tai chi and whatever else was going, my first experience of Esoteric Yoga was excruciating. My body could hardly be so still and sit in a way that supported me. Yet that was the whole point; the more I was willing to be with the yoga (union) with my body without movement, the more solid my movement became.

115. When do we create the space to lie down and feel our bodies? In ordinary life we just don’t do this. Esoteric Yoga offers us our bodies back to ourselves with all their wisdom. It is a truly awesome modality and in my experience, and that of many others I know, it takes us to a new level of honesty with ourselves and introduces us to a quality of life that we had not met before.

116. Esoteric Yoga is bringing stillness back to the body. In a world that is so much about the constant doing this can be challenging.

117. I have found that the Esoteric Yoga has really helped me to reconnect back to my body, and each time I am amazed as to how much information my body is able to tell me.

118. Esoteric Yoga is a great modality and i love it because it offers an opportunity to deeply re-connect back to a stillness, and a simplicity that is profound.

119. The title..”Don’t judge a book by its cover” is a great statement, as, when you discover the exquisite quality of stillness and expansion from within your own body, through Esoteric Yoga, it is then very clear that every-body you meet has these qualities too, so there is no way, one can judge another (“a book”) based on the external look or appearance or behaviour, because we all have this same exquisite quality within.

120. It is simply powerful and profound what Esoteric Yoga brings to our bodies as we connect and feel it’s healing power.

121. ‘Esoteric Yoga is a self-healing modality that can be done anytime, anywhere and it epitomises the truth of yoga.’ It has taken a while for me to realise that the space that this powerful yoga offers allows me to connect deeply with my body, and as a consequence, the body realigns and heals itself. I’m in awe of its wisdom. It has taken a while for my mind to accept that the body is the smart one.

122. It is in the simplicity that we can connect to the wisdom that is inside us all.

123. “Benefits of Esoteric Yoga – Don’t Judge A Book by Its Cover”. Absolutely. It’s amazing to feel how something so simple can be so profoundly life changing. We’re so attuned to have to be doing to get results when this modality is simply asking us to be.

124. Esoteric Yoga invites the body to deeply surrender and to feel a depth of stillness that is exquisite in every way. I love this modality and the true healing it offers the body.

125. Esoteric Yoga is changing the world as we speak, as it is opening up the doors back to the divinity that we are from.

126. Before Esoteric Yoga I had only ever tried one type of yoga and I did it only once and it never inspired me to do yoga again until I tried Esoteric Yoga, which was like discovering a whole new way of being. I had never experienced such stillness and connection to myself which you can use as a marker to take into daily life.

127. Such a great reminder to read this blog as in my mind I easily would think ‘Esoteric Yoga, that is so boring’. But, it is true, having practiced Esoteric Yoga I have experienced the absolute profound beauty of this modality. I must say my body knows that my thoughts are not true when I think about Esoteric Yoga as dull as it is an absolute precious and divine modality.

128. I agree Jane, I have recently started to feel that there is a depth to the connection of my body of which I had not previously experienced.

     1. I can feel Julie too that there is no end to the depth we can reach, there is always an opportunity to go deeper into our stillness.

129. “…I am in awe of how the body knows exactly how to bring itself back to harmony…” Yes, I too am in awe of this… How, when in stillness and connection during Esoteric Yoga, the body seems to opens up into this spacious and expansion feeling. The body has an intelligence far beyond what we think it does. We have become use to thinking that brain power is intelligence. Being busy during our day keeps us distracted away from being with this. The only word that comes anywhere close to describing this space Love. Love in its truest form. It is something that we inextricably know, a feeling we recognise. All this, from our body, not our brain.

130. Yes, I love this part too Nico, treating our body and ourselves like a baby, gently, tenderly, with much care and nurturing.

     1. And it is in a way so actually so simple and I simply love it to be with myself that way but how easily do I forget and make my outer life more important then the inner life. But I know it is not it as my body will show that to me in becoming anxious as I do not treat it with the love and care it deserves and should be treated with.

131. It’s interesting what you share Anna, how you felt after doing other types of Yoga. Twisting and contorting our body into difficult positions is most unnatural, this explains the disconnection and discomfort. Whereas Esoteric Yoga supports our natural body positions, assists us to connect deeply to our body and to stillness. Truly simple yet extremely profound.

132. I so love the stillness that Esoteric Yoga reconnects me to. Its simplicity is truly profound.

133. The simplicity of Esoteric Yoga is what is so amazing. There is no trying or doing just being and feeling and connecting in stillness on a much deeper level. Stillness being restored which sets a new marker for the rest of my day. A very profound healing modality.

134. You make a great point about Esoteric Yoga’s hidden treasure. You could be fooled into thinking very little is happening. Think again.Through the stillness the session encourages, it offers an opportunity to go way deeper, if and when you get your mind out of the way and begin to feel the connection with the body.

135. Esoteric Yoga is an awesome modality, where it offers deeply a reconnection to yourself, and from thereon in, one can never feel lonely. And from there, you bring the fullness of you in whatever you do and wherever you go.

136. I can so relate to what you have written Caroline – my very first Esoteric Yoga sessions were introduced to me during a retreat in Vietnam and I found it excruciating to lie there and connect with my body. After having practised other types of Yoga for 6 years at that point I just couldn’t understand how doing so little could be that painful, and why I was struggling so much with the Esoteric Yoga when I thought I loved yoga. Then gradually the fight in me stopped and my body started to respond and release things which were held tight. Today I am pleased to say I have a totally different relationship with Esoteric Yoga and welcome my sessions.

137. What really struck a cord with me while reading this is that the body knows how to bring itself back into harmony. I have known that the body can regenerate itself but reading this part really brought me to stop for a moment. To return to harmony requires no effort or trying, simply choosing to follow the lead of the body that is following a greater lead or pull beyond it.

138. Esoteric Yoga offers the body the space to drop into the most exquisite stillness that it quite often is far more rejuvenating than an 8hr sleep!

     1. So true, these sessions can feel very rejuvenating. This shows that vitality is related to quality and not quantity of rest and connection.

     2. I agree Johanne and I also find it’s a great way to stop any momentum that I’ve been in and to start again with that “exquisite” marker of stillness in the body.

139. Esoteric Yoga is something that I have felt profound benefits from. I have felt a connection with my body more than I have ever felt, but also at times feelings of incredible discomfort. But at the end of the session, it has always ended up feeling amazing.

     1. I have experienced this too raegankcairney. It is amazing how much can be felt in the body when connecting to it.

     2. Yes, this is my experience too Raegankcairney, this heavenly modality is simple, accessible and truly amazing. It is like nothing I have experienced before, allowing deep stillness and connection to my body.

     3. I just had a yoga session and it was very revealing for me as it was really spot on to reflect back to me how I was living the days before – I was not as present as I could be and so it was not as easy to be present in my body as it could be in this yoga session. For me this is a such a good reflection to help me to get an understanding for me, what was going on in the days and what I didn’t like to feel.

140. Haha steffihenn – Fan club alert! I am in the fan club too!

141. Gosh I just love everyone’s comments – as I just relate more and more to them! “A very much needed modality that doesn’t ask you anything and gives you everything.” This comment of your’s rachelandras has said it all. It really turns the world on it’s head – when simplicity is the key to vitality, and complexity is a long rotten tool which we choose to not connect to everything that is there.
     Esoteric Yoga is truly and dearly life changing, as it allows you to see more clearly where we make life complex and hard for ourselves, which gives us a true choice – to change our life. Wow – how amazing is simplicity?

     1. Love it Arianne, “simplicity is the key to vitality and complexity is a long rotten tool which we choose, to not connect to everything that is there”. How amazing is simplicity and I would have never imagined how difficult it can be to stay in the simplicity of not doing anything having sold out into complexity for many years. To stop the momentum of doing and surrender to the body as our divine vessel of truth is absolutely amazing and a very joyful way to live.

     2. I agree Arianne Esoteric Yoga has helped me see where I have been making life hard for myself. And yes it’s amazing as it does give us the opportunity to make a true choice to change our life and embrace this wonderful body we inhabit.

142. What I love about esoteric Yoga is it can be a helpful tool that can be used anywhere. it highlights so much of how I have been with my body or not with my body and offers an opportunity to make changes in a gentle and loving way.

143. Wonderful expressed and I like how you bring the yoga qualities into your life, basically in everything you do. Once we stop controlling the body, the body has the opportunity to heal himself. Thanks for your inspirations.

144. Yes Vicky – Yoga gives us so many markers, we can use them during day, to check where we are at any given moment in time. And I like the responsibility aspect in your last sentence “My part is then to live this.” Very inspiring.

145. Yes shelleyjones44, if we allow, our body will show us the way. It is amazing how much wisdom the body offers – we just have to open up. Awesome.

146. I too have found it very challenging at times.

147. Agreed Jennifer. Esoteria Yoga has supported me in the awareness of how I am with everything -the way I apply suncream to my children,the way I open the car door to the way I put myself to bed at night. Exuisite is a great way to describe it.

148. I love that I can come to an Esoteric Yoga Session with an anxiousness and finish the session with a deep understanding of why I am feeling this way. I can build a relationship with myself throughout these sessions.

149. It can come as quite a surprise to many that a person doesn’t need to stretch the body to relieve tension. There is not one stretch involved in an Esoteric Yoga class, yet, upon completing a class, I feel my whole body deeply relaxed, tension dissolved and a beautiful sense of connection and being with me. I have done and taught thousands of traditional yoga classes over the years, but have never felt the depth of clarity that I feel from Esoteric Yoga in any of those classes. Esoteric Yoga redefines what yoga is, it brings yoga back to its origins of being about union with the soul.

150. Esoteric Yoga assisted me to feel what was really going on in my body, and at first I have to admit the experience was not pleasant. But what I learnt was that as we learn to surrender to ourselves, there is a stillness that is lovely beyond compare that exists within every single one of us.

151. There have be times I have felt the deep stillness in and exquisite connection to my body during an Esoteric Yoga session and then there are times when I have become quite frustrated and found it very challenging to stay so present with myself for a full hour. The times when I am struggling with myself are when I have being pushing myself so hard that I am exhausted. So even though my body is in desperate need of proper rest, the momentum within keeps me active even when I am lying down doing nothing. I can’t say I enjoy the challenging times but I learn heaps about the way I am really feeling when I give myself the opportunity to come to a complete stop – which Esoteric Yoga provides.

152. Haha yes Jane, I’ve had many clients over the years who subscribed to the ‘no pain no gain’ theory of massage… I was one of them many years ago. But one Esoteric Massage and they are converts… bodies totally let go, absolute connection to who they are, deeply nurtured and whole body at ease in less than one hour! That’s quite something and certainly not achievable by any form of massage l’ve ever had or known of.

153. Esoteric Yoga offers the possibility of connecting to my body and in the stillness feel the love within my inner-heart that expands and flows through my body.

154. For many years I practised a form of yoga that was quite harsh on the body and was very competitive. When I first went along to Esoteric Yoga it was obvious my body could not handle the stillness, I found it quite challenging in the beginning. I have just completed a 6 week Esoteric Yoga course and I noticed I was able to connect more deeply with myself and found I had more energy and vitality during my day. Esoteric Yoga is a beautiful modality that truly supports my body to re-connect and let go of any tensions I am carrying.

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156. Esoteric Yoga is nothing short of an Amazing modality that can be practised everywhere and anywhere in the world at any give moment. What I pondered on it while reading the blog and comments I felt that Esoteric Yoga actually speaks the words that we often use as missing in our lives: stillness, harmony, confidence, yumminess, connected, etc. Personally I love those feelings, but I have to be honest and also ran away from it. As it being ‘too good’. Telling myself that I wouldn’t be able to hold it all of the time. There’s a deep sense of having missed myself that I come accross when feeling my profoundness in Esoteric Yoga. There’s willingness to go there, but to go deeper is still work in progress. But it doesn’t take away the fact of the Amazingness of Esoteric Yoga.

157. Yes Michael, if we can feel this even once, it is marker for who we are and the level of surrender and openness that is possible. Without defence and protection, we offer a priceless opportunity to not only build love in our own bodies but let others in with that love so they too can experience this. This is a work in progress for me as I know I still have much protection come up.

158. The stillness that I have felt with esoteric yoga, has mostly been something I feel while lying or sitting still, then as soon as I get up, my mind is off and running into the day. My regular walking practice has me deepen my awareness of my body, whilst I am walking, and to a lesser extent, when I finish my walk and go about my day. I don’t always have the same awareness of my body, although that is gradually increasing. The other day I had the gorgeous feeling of being stillness in motion, pure joy and playfulness would be the only way to describe this experience, being able to bring this feeling into my body consistently is only a matter of time.

159. I have had a few Esoteric Yoga sessions and they have been profound in their effects, I often lay myself down to sleep at night in the way that I did during a session, it felt completely amazing, to be so caring and delicate with my body and to treat myself each night with such preciousness makes for a gorgeous nights sleep.

160. When I started with Esoteric Yoga I missed the activity the doing and I didn’t understand the benefits of “laying around” I wanted to do something to get vital and fit. Its this doing monster that holds us in this state of non connection with our bodies and makes us not feel what our bodies are communicating. The quality Esoteric Yoga brings into the body is groundbreaking and no other modality ever has been able to offer this as it has never been truly about the body. Traditional yoga or meditation feels to me like domesticating the body, controlling, subordinating to the mind and that is exactly the opposite of Esoteric Yoga. Esoteric Yoga lets the body speak and brings the mind in harmony with what the body is doing.

161. I remember my first Esoteric Yoga session. I was unlike anything I had experienced in the world of yoga. There was no postures just some sitting and lying and bending of my knees. It was not relaxing at all and I found it quite uncomfortable. It was afterwards, days afterwards that I was noticing the effect of the class that I attended. I began to really feel the impact of even so called small choices on my body, the tension that I carried everyday and the way I control myself in the way I lived. This was so much more powerful than a yoga class focused on stretching and breathing. In Esoteric Yoga I got to feel me, rather than feeling a muscle that was tight and needing a good stretch. I got to feel into my muscles were tight and tense and that this was a result of the choices I was making in how I lived. Esoteric Yoga is such a beautiful modality with the power that we are only uncovering now all because we become our own practitioners and see the part we ourselves play in the results of the life that we live.

     1. Yes Jennifer, we get to feel any state of tension and distraction that we are in. Asking for mw to connect to a deep stillness, the honesty of Esoteric Yoga shows me everything about myself.

162. Yes Amelia this is the truth – our bodies do know harmony _ I love that you have written this. Esoteric Yoga offers a very gentle simple opportunity to feel the level of harmony I’m allowing and accepting for me in my everyday. It is an open invitation for 100% allowing no other thought process required just feeling and accepting. It’s very delicious when I just allow what ever is there to be revealed. This then offers the letting go that is possible. But it is a moment by moment process that unfolds. Trying to start Esoteric Yoga with the focus on an outcome or how it should finish feels like trying to eat tinned fish without opening the can.

163. The well is deep and endless. What is accessible with esoteric yoga is just amazing and as mentioned above, it is so very simple but very powerful.

164. What this blog so beautifully points out is how our body offers us constant wisdom and understanding – and that we simply need to re-connect to it, feel, listen and observe. It tells us the way we are living and who we truly are as it holds our essence – to treat our body any less than the sacred divine vehicle that it is, is to not accept our true power and responsibility.

     1. Hear hear Sarah Davis, true power comes from us being in connection with our bodies where the wisdom lies within.

165. So true Rachel. In fact esoteric yoga is so simple that initially I wanted it to be harder on my body and more challenging or else it could not be doing me any good! It just shows us how we seek complexity to hide behind and shy away from simplicity which can be so much more exposing and totally gorgeous.

166. Well said, rachelandras. It is also for me a gift from heaven, because it brings me back every time to the truth of what is really going on inside me, it re-connects me to the bigger picture, and then life becomes simple again.

167. It is the ‘endless depth’ that I find so inspiring and exciting. As I feel one thing there is always the next invitation to accept. Thank you, Vicky.

168. Esoteric Yoga is a truly amazing modality, simplicity in action. It helps me to build presence, stillness and a deep connection with my body, the benefits are eternal.

169. ‘the more surrender you feel is possible’ – I love this acknowledgement of the depth of healing available the more we let go to the power of our body’s dialogue and what it shows us all the time.

170. Love this Sandra – “to be a fan of my own body” – so great to bring about more appreciation of our own body, I feel that way we treat it with more love and care 🙂

171. I never understood it when I first tried… and the reason was I just did not like the idea of it – it just seemed too simplistic. Then last year Simon Voysey ran a programme for a few men and it absolutely blew me away. Yes – super simple. But the staggering effect it had on how I feel, deeply connected and in my body, and the subsequent effect on my day was nothing short of a miracle.

     1. I can relate Simon – I often used to fall asleep during a session! Now I can appreciate so much more of how it enables me to connect with my body on such a deep level that a session can be more rejuvenating than a nights sleep!

        1. I too can relate Simon. It has taken me a while to allow my body the space to connect without needing to do or be anything. I have found this modality to be truly supportive.

     2. Neither did I understand it when I first tried it Simon – making a comparison to a previous yoga that I used to take part in. I would be achy from all that pushing and holding but, with Esoteric Yoga I’d end the session feeling absolutely amazing, the gentleness in my body from connecting in ways I’d never had before, so refreshed and ready for the busy day ahead. An amazing Esoteric Healing modality.

     3. Agree simonwilliams8, it was so hard to understand at the beginning as there was nothing to be done, just to be and it was so boring for my mind that I would fall asleep instantly. And thats the whole point it challenges your mind to be present with the body and not to take off and indulge in stories. It only asks you to truly be with and in your body, so beautiful!!

172. Thanks goodness for Esoteric Yoga, offering the true meaning of Yoga. The true meaning of yoga has been lost and bastardised in its practise, it has been made to be about the postures and breathing in a certain way. This is not what Patanjali presented in the teachings of yoga those thousands of years ago. Having tried a daily practise of postures and breathing for many many years, it did not offer me an ounce of true connection with me. Esoteric Yoga on the other hand from the very first class offered me the opportunity to experience union – no fancy postures required, no special breathing. Just the opportunity to be left to be with me, to feel what is not me, so that it can shift so I can feel more of the true me.

173. The power of Esoteric Yoga lies in it’s simplicity. If we are left with ourselves with no distractions a whole range of ways of being, ideals, beliefs, patterns and behaviours will be revealed to us. The simple movements and the support in becoming aware of the quality in which we move trough life offers the opportunity for true healing and deep connection to all that we are.

174. The first time I had an Esoteric yoga session, I could not stay in place and felt quite frustrated. With time I learnt how to be with myself, in stillness, and as time went by, each session became very different one to another and much more powerful, just delightful.

175. Esoteric Yoga is a doorway to the stillness, harmony and truth that exists within all of us but we rarely feel as business, raciness, distractions, stress, etc all mask these qualities. Esoteric Yoga then gives you a foundation to remain connected to those qualities as you go about your day.

176. The yoga brings us to a place where we can stop the rushing and tension of our daily lives and feel ourselves again. It allows us to come back to this foundation and then walk each day from that place. It becomes the place where we can fall back to for support.

177. I would love to see this amazing modality sent from heaven taught in schools at the beginning of the day, this would support the kids especially teenagers to deeply connect back to the body, letting go some of the baggage they may bring. To arrive at school and learn how to leave my baggage at the door. Thank God for Esoteric Yoga !

178. ‘In fact, it is almost too difficult to fathom how something so simple could be so amazing in what it offers the body, and the being, and how one feels!’ With no striving or driving the body, the effect Esoteric Yoga has had on my body has been profound.

179. I love esoteric yoga, it is so healing for my body. I stop and feel my body and it slowly adjusts and releases any tension or any energy I have been holding onto. Then the body presents messages in a way that allows me to see how I have been living and how it feels in my body. The session continues on throughout my day and it feels so yummy in my body.

180. The Esoteric Yoga is helping me to understand the stillness within me doesn’t need to change when I move and I’m working on bringing this into everything I do in my daily life.

181. It’s so true that Esoteric Yoga can be done anytime and anywhere. What is connected to in a session can be taken into everyday life. It is the beauty of stillness in motion.

182. With no doubt Esoteric Yoga is a self healing modality, one that is simple and profound at the same time. It always amazes me that by focusing and bringing presence to the body, I feel so clear the rest of the day, so connected and deeply enjoying being in my body. It is so much easier to be at ease and not interfered by unwanted thoughts, the body feels yummy and lovely to be in it.

183. The potential for us to deepen our connection is ever present – Esoteric Yoga allows space to feel that potential and surrender to the body in full. For me it is a great and very needed stop moment to feel the difference from living in my head and being in my body.

184. I have definitely found the way in which Esoteric Yoga is such a powerful modality that really allows us to deepen the connection with our bodies, as currently most other modalities are promoting us to feel a numbness or a peace within our body while Esoteric Yoga gives us the opportunity to feel a reflection of where our body is at and therefore we can begin make different choices and let go of all that is not us

     1. True Oliver, Esoteric Yoga is s helpful tool to feel where we are at in accordance to our stillness. And yes sometimes what we feel in a session is not quite comfortable as it reflects our choices and unrest. But definitely with Esoteric Yoga we are able to come back more and more to our true stillness and inegrate this deepening marker in our daily life.

185. Esoteric Yoga is a very beautiful modality, I find it brings me very quickly into my body and supports me to a deeper connection with myself. I found it hard to do initially but I know now, that was because I was resisting feeling what was actually going on for me, for my body. The body never lies and it is never more obvious than here in the stillness of the Esoteric Yoga.

186. Very rarely are we given the opportunity to be truly still and to become aware of our bodies without needing to DO or BE anything else. This is truly profound in itself and reveals how simply we can begin to re-connect throughout our day.

187. Elodie, I have a prerecorded online esoteric yoga session scheduled today and I can feel how I am resisting it as I do not want to face some of the choices I have made in the last few days. When I read your comment I can feel that I am placing a need to be perfect on myself. Esoteric yoga exposes where I am at 24/7 but your comment reminds me to continue to see this for the blessing it is.

188. Have you ever had an invigorating sleep after which you felt all parts of your body vibrating, warm, every move feels full of joy and dance, you open your eyes and just want to love the world? That’s how I experience Esoteric Yoga.

     1. Totally agree felixschumacher8 – and I would just add that my movements feel super smooth afterwards as well… like I’ve had an oil change!

189. What I love about esoteric yoga is that my body feels honest and comes to its own truth and wisdom so naturally, from this point I find a sense of ease and simplicity in who I am and in my day and this to me is so precious and absolutely priceless! Movement I am learning is a profoundly beautiful science and how I move in yoga with myself affects everything.

190. I’ve found esoteric yoga great for helping me to tune back into my body and give myself the space to feel what is there to be felt. Even if a part of my body aches or is sore I then have the opportunity to reconnect back with the innate harmonious flow that is always there underneath and from that feel how I’ve been living that has gone against it.

191. I find it surprisingly challenging to be in my body with such presence. We are often far more comfortable with contorting or pushing our bodies. Yet when we are asked to stop and really feel it is much harder that imagined.

192. It sure does offer a stop. Esoteric Yoga is a moment to stop and feel what is really going on. It is so simple and at times I don’t even realise that is what has happened. It’s a stop and a deep connection to ourselves.

193. Esoteric yoga is the bridge by which we can connect back to our body as our biggest friend and support. Esoteric Yoga enables us to feel that everything that we need to know and feel is inside our bodies and if we just observe it and learn from these observations, magic is going to unfold itself.

194. After reading this I have a new appreciation for esoteric yoga. I find the yoga challenging yet I love it. I do often fall asleep and have a tendency to wonder how muchI really got out of it. But having read this I realise that post-class I have a huge level of spaciousness in my body. I hadn’t been appreciating that.

     1. Surrendering to the power of Esoteric Yoga and then appreciating it – a truly divine combo and an expansion to add to this discussion…thank you, nikkimckee.

195. Esoteric Yoga cracks through all of the ideas about what we need to ‘do’ to our body in order to achieve something, an end result. There is nothing to achieve in Esoteric Yoga. It is profoundly stilling and deeply connecting by allowing you to just be with your body and the exquisiteness of your soul. This turns traditional yoga on its head…oh but hang on, traditional yoga is already on its head;)

     1. So True Sara. Esoteric Yoga is the place where I have discovered there is a difference in how I can “BE” in what ever it is that I am doing. There is no need to stand on my head!

     2. Ha ha, that’s very good Sara! Having also tried conventional yoga in a couple of its forms over the years I’ve come to see also how profoundly different it is from Esoteric Yoga. There are poses in conventional yoga where one is encouraged to a version of stillness, i.e. lie down, but it never felt like Esoteric Yoga does. To most yoga people Esoteric Yoga would look like nothing much at all – no obvious challenge, no muscular workout, no ‘yoga body’ to be proud of. Yet it can be extraordinarily difficult, as it exposes exactly how you’ve been living – it’s very true in this respect.

     3. ha ha Sara, there is nothing ‘upside down’ about Esoteric Yoga, when we surrender far beneath the depth of our own skin it just makes sense.

     4. Ha! Spot on Sara – I love how you said ‘There is nothing to achieve in Esoteric Yoga.’ This is so true and deeply humbling – there is no where to go and no place to reach – just a willingness to be with ourselves.

     5. Beautifully expressed Sara and a great reminder, I do not need to achieve anything – but just be me. This sentence alone puts me in a state of harmony that I still too often forget.

     6. I agree Sara, there is nothing to ‘do’ in Esoteric Yoga only the surrender of our bodies to the stillness within us all.

     7. Love it Sara, so true. I use to do yoga involving all sorts of twisting and contorting requiring lots of strength. I have never felt the level of connection with my body while performing all of the contortions that I do in the stillness of Esoteric Yoga. This is turning yoga on its head!!

     8. Traditional yoga is definitely about doing and achieving more. Stretch further, hold the pose longer, etc, etc. This breeds competition, and if you have ever been to a yoga class, it is pretty easy to spot. This is also the antithesis of the meaning of the word yoga: union. How can you be in union if you are competing?

        1. Yes, there is so much competition in traditional yoga…so true Naren. Everyone is trying to outdo each other. There is no union in this…and therefore, no true yoga.

     9. Love that comment as it had not occurred to me to that point – there is nothing to achieve. It leaves you to be just you, and the key is in bringing how you are to your awareness and then allowing space to open up around and within you. We all move at our own pace, get something different from the session, but always there is more space available no matter what state we are in.

     10. It is Sara, ‘It is profoundly stilling and deeply connecting by allowing you to just be with your body and the exquisiteness of your soul’ and this feels so exquisite.

     11. so funny and so true Sara.

         1. I know Heidi…I cracked myself up writing that one:))

196. ” I can go into a session feeling quite tired, and come out of a session feeling restored and ready for my day.” I have felt this too. What it has exposed to me, is that it is not so much about what I have been doing but the energy I have been choosing that makes me feel a certain way. And this can happen any time throughout the day, not just after a yoga session, though this does allow me to connect deeply with the truth. When I live from my head, rushing and stressing I feel drained, anxious, indecisive grumpy, exhausted … when I live from my body – I feel clarity, joy, lightness, stillness and simplicity.

     1. I am coming to realise this more and more gylrae – that the way I feel is a result of the energy that I have been choosing. Esoteric Yoga is supportive in reconnecting to me, to my body, and feeling the strength and stillness within.

     2. Absolutely, gylrae and Lee, so it is not what I do but how I do it. What has also blown me away is that the more I connect to my body and the constant feedback it is giving me the more I feel connected to life and everyone else. It is like my body recognises everyone else’s as a part of the same.

197. “There is an absolute honesty that I am shown during each session that allows me to look at the way I am choosing to live ” is there any other modality on earth, apart by those from Universal Medicine that offers us this? This is huge. The truth is, there is no other modalities that asks us to stop, look at how we have been living, know we have caused whatever we may be feeling, allow us the opportunity to reflect, does not ask us to give our power away, know that we can make different choices and take responsibility for ourselves.

     1. I agree Gyl, I know of no other modality/modalities that ask us to do this. In fact I would say most other modalities, if not the whole of life, are geared to preventing us from doing exactly that – stopping and connecting with our bodies. Which raises the question: why might this be so? Could it be to prevent us from connecting to the amazing wisdom, power and glory that lies therein – a wisdom, power and glory that, if we did all connect to it, would change the world in a nano-second? To me it feels like there are forces with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and they will encourage anything and everything that keeps us from knowing and feeling who we really are.

198. I have found that Esoteric Yoga brings me back to my body and brings me to stillness. Its so powerful.

199. Rachel I am with you on this as its deeply profound and simple all in one. When I first started esoteric yoga it was a challenge to consider that allowing myself to connect with myself was in fact yoga – union. Yet when I did I felt deeply expanded and naturally tender. What I also came to understand is that what most of society call Yoga today missing the very core and meaning of yoga.

200. Absolutely – I am doing a 6 week program at the moment online and have found it to be challenging and amazing, in that it shows me so much about myself and its all up to me as to how deep I want to take it. I am seeing just how much that I run with avoidance instead of choosing connection. For I know there is such great wisdom and awareness within us all just waiting to be given the green light to express out into the world.

201. I agree Jenny – I have had the experience of reconnecting the the Universe during an Esoteric Yoga Session and all I was doing was laying down and then sitting up and moving my legs….they must smile at us from heaven and said ” lets see how they handle this”. So much love and awareness unfolds in each session.

     1. I love this Simone. When we keep things simple so much is possible. Complexity makes it harder for the divine to be felt. Yes, they must have a giggle and say “let’s see how they handle this.”

202. This is so great Ch1956 – and that is exactly what each Esoteric Yoga session offers us. To know ourselves free from everything that the world has told us that we are. I agree Thank God for Esoteric Yoga!!

203. Zofia this is so true the stillness that is connected to is the energy we are from. To integrate this back into our every day expression is indeed true vitality and the pulse of the Universe.

204. Yes Jenny, when the common understanding of yoga is pushing the body into awkward postures and dynamic moves a yoga that is subtle and slow in pace could easily be judged as ineffectual. The transformation in our way of being that occurs from Esoteric Yoga if we so choose is huge. I am constantly amazed how profoundly powerful connecting to the way our body is feeling is. It’s Esoteric Yoga for me every time.

     1. Yes Fiona, I was a Hatha yoga devotee for a few years, then migrated to the more active forms as they started to become more popular, but once I experienced Esoteric Healing I found I wasn’t drawn to go anymore. It was many years later Esoteric Yoga was introduced and at first I didn’t like it much, but now, absolutely love the opportunity to be with myself and restore a depth of connection with my body that is unlike any other modality. Very powerful in it’s subtlety… and so not so subtle really.

205. When the connection that is developed with oneself in Esoteric Yoga is lived by humanity, the world will indeed be a very different place. Yoga has been bastardised in the sense that traditional yoga talks about yoga being union, however, after over a decade of going to classes and teaching it myself, I never felt union in not one of those classes, that is, until I experienced Esoteric Yoga. Esoteric Yoga doesn’t ask anything of us, it allows us to simply ‘be’ and it is only in the ‘being’ is there union. So any postures, breathing etc are actually taking us further away from union, they are taking us further away from who we really are. The pure evil of traditional yoga is that it leads us away from union opposed to towards it.

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