During one of my recent sessions in my 6 week Esoteric Yoga program with Esoteric Yoga practitioner Vicky Geary, I experienced the most incredible moment where I felt that everything about life made more than sense to me in the most tangible way.
At the beginning of my 6 week program I didn’t know specifically what might happen during the program, but I knew what I wanted to focus on was to be around embodying stillness. By week 2, and after the support from another practitioner at a Universal Medicine clinic, I realised embodying this stillness meant to claim my delicacy and stillness as a woman and having it be there in every facet of my life, and especially in every way I express.
During this time I also listened to a Way of the Livingness audio about time and space presented by Serge Benhayon. One sentence stood out and it was around God being all the space around us, so when we are in the Atma of God, we are in his Space. From this sentence I got that we are always held by His love.
I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.
So we are each then responsible for how we are and treat every cell and fibre of our own body… treating ourselves with the love, the delicacy, the tenderness, the gentleness and the care we are and we deserve.
During this last few weeks I have been able to ask and pose such questions to myself as – how have I been knowingly holding myself back from claiming/living the light of my soul in my body? How do I confirm my Divinity? When do I allow my delicacy to be there? And when and how do I reject my delicacy, my stillness and ultimately God if I am not allowing myself to be, or remain, with my heart or my natural way?
During the Esoteric Yoga program I was able to be more aware of my body and I got to feel a quality of presence in my ankles, a freedom and stillness in my knees, a lightness and playfulness in my shoulders, some tension in a spot on the back of my left ribcage, a bit of a holding and locked feeling in my right hip, feeling the sacredness in my uterus and that my light is far grander than any tension or issue that I may still have in my body.
The most incredible part of the session was the moment when I tangibly felt the light and grandness I am, and that every part of me holds this love. I felt my deep delicateness and the responsibility of sharing this all the time with myself and others. I tangibly felt the delicateness in my touch, the way I tenderly held myself and how gentle I am. Feeling this has confirmed my knowing that we are vehicles of expression and that we can be reflecting God’s love through our bodies and movements in how we choose to be, or not. My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.
Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity.
By Johanna Smith – Teacher, Wife, Mother, Practitioner, Bachelor of Education & Early Childhood Cert, Perth WA
Further Reading:
Esoteric Yoga – To Do or To Be?
Esoteric Yoga: Union with Me and God…at last
Esoteric Yoga Audio – Editors Choice
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
We seem to have a problem accepting that God is within us and that we are very capable of being love ourselves. Question is: if we are capable of such great act, why hold back that which we are by origin?
Through Esoteric Yoga I too have felt the most incredible stillness and lightness, which has helped me treat myself far more gently and tenderly than before.
There is no image of stillness that is able to ever convey what is felt at that moment.
“I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God” – so true Johanna, and to actually live this truth is to live life. I too realised that we, everyone, in all our activities all live inside the womb of God. And that just like renting a property from a landlord and dutifully keeping that property clear, clean, tidy, in working order is the requirement of any property tenancy agreement, that all 7 billion of us have this same tenancy agreement and hence responsibility. When we break that tenancy through being irresponsible, disobedient, ruinous, careless, reckless, unclean as we could in a property, then we are only doing all this inside God’s womb aka Atma. God is the ultimate loving and observant landlord and so how are we squaring up on this account at the end of our tenancy??
“if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do, not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.” Wow this brings a whole new depth to our responsibility, if every step, every move, every thought is taking place inside God then every single little thing we do matters.
Esoteric Yoga is truly an amazing modality, it can confirm that God is not just all around us but inside us as well, and that we can live connected to the divinity we are a part of and come from. Yoga’s true meaning is union and Esoteric Yoga is union with all we are truly within, the divinity we come from. This has certainly been my experience of Esoteric Yoga as well.
There are moments when I can feel absolutely how we are all deeply held by God and there are other moments when I allow distractions (and or frustration) to cloud this.
The stillness and steadiness I have experienced in my body during esoteric yoga sessions has been delicious and priceless and has really shown me what is possible, so now I am in the process of asking myself is it possible that I could live with this quality in my body all the time during the day, not just in a yoga session. My experience so far says that yes this is possible but it will take time and practice for my patterns of not living with stillness are very old and ingrained.
Two things jump out from this blog … ‘How do I confirm my Divinity? ‘ … and how do we, we do this through our bodies and of course that them asks how are we with our bodies? So a great inspiration to ask how do we take care of our part of the Universe, of God, our bodies?
Yes, I like this question too Monica, how do I confirm my divinity – shall take this into my day.
The power of Esoteric Yoga is its simplicity – re-connecting with our innate essence and godliness through movement. Each session reminds us that the quality of every movement is our choice to make: it is not in grand gestures we change ourselves and inspire others but singular delicate movements practised consistently.
Its interesting – if we scan through the body we can feel little pockets of discomfort, tension, pain. This is all valuable feedback on how we are living – our bodies providing a map that can be quite easy to follow. And yet, we have so many distractions that divorce us from this feeling, games that we play that rob us of a birthright until such time as the body says :ENOUGH’ more loudly and we are forced to listen.
“Feeling the Divinity of God through Esoteric Yoga” – it is through Esoteric Yoga that I get to feel not just the way I am relating with myself but also the truth of myself and so of God.
Esoteric Yoga continually presents us the opportunities to re-connect to the exquisiteness of what lays untouched within us. We also get to feel all of the things that we place in the way of this exquisiteness. Its certainly not always easy to feel this and we can think that this complication is who we are. But its simply what we have allowed, bought into and believed is true. There is no complication in this exquisiteness, just an offering of a simplicity in life, that is always held completely in the arms of God.
The love we innately are is the light we are here live through all we do, as such we magnify the light of God through our bodies, expanding space with Divinity.
Feeling that our light or grandness is greater than any issue or condition that we have is such an important part of healing, for when we do this we can truly observe the issues and know that they are choices we have made, or layers we have placed on top of us, and not part of who we really are.
In 2014 my body was so accustomed to being in action/drive that Esoteric Yoga wasn’t supportive to where I was in my life. My mind was busy and so was my body, busy trying to keep up with it.
Every time I partake in Esoteric Yoga I learn something new about myself and my body. Another part of my body where I carry tension or coldness/numbness where It brings my awareness to, and explore what is going on for me.
Now this is Yoga of truth, this is the yoga of life, the yoga that brings us back to who we truly are – the breath of God.
“How we choose to be”. How many of us even know we have a choice. In truth we all do know. But it has been hidden by the seeming behaviour of our world to conform to fit in.
I’ve recently completed an Esoteric Yoga program with Vicky Geary and I’m learning more and more about myself, from the woman I was before, hard and driven, to a woman who is allowing the delicateness and fragility to be expressed.
I look forward to my sessions as I learn more and more about myself and it allows me to stop and really feel where my body is at and every program allows me to deepen within myself as a woman.
Love this – a reminder that God is not hard to find if he fills all the space. There is plenty of that all around us and plenty of opportunities to feel his presence.
Oh so intimate to be feeling we are a part of the universe, how would we ever want to lose this feeling of support and closeness?
Every time I participate in Esoteric Yoga, I learn something more about myself and my body. The tensions I am carrying but if I fall asleep, it is a marker that I have gone into drive or the doing.
I haven’t mastered this stillness but I am discovering more of it and I know that it asks others of it too. Esoteric Yoga provides a reflection to others as to how far away they have moved away from God too – I absolutely love it.
It’s a beautiful paradox in a way that how we are with our physical body directly impacts our relationship with our multi-dimensionality, our divinity.
We are not taught to understand that as you say Johanna that God is the space all around us and within us, surely if we were taught this from day dot we would have far greater respect for God and ourselves? Would we trash our bodies or be so abusive to ourselves and one another if we were taught that our very particles make up the universe which is God’s atma.
Esoteric Yoga, allows us to explore every aspect of our body and then be able to take that newly achieved awareness into the day so that it becomes part of our movements. A yoga on wheels if you are driving!
Esoteric yoga, the Yoga of Stillness, offers the space in the stillness to be aware of Divine Love that permeates every particle.
The space that is offered by Esoteric Yoga is extremely valuable in the path of evolution.
“Feeling the Divinity of God through Esoteric Yoga” – beautiful Johanna, and also feeling the divinity within myself and in others too, it’s why i adore this modality so deeply.
Esoteric Yoga brings us back to the tangible quality of divinity in our bodies. No other form of yoga has come anywhere near this in my experience. Having felt this quality in a session we can then bring this quality into any activity in our daily lives. This has the potential to change our lives forever.
I have the deepest feeling of intimacy about heaven and with God, so remembering this relationship will always remind me of what love is and how I am to be with myself then.
In reading this blog today I was triggered by the sentence: “if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart”. When we can appreciate this as being true, that we are constantly held in the love of God, and that we also have God within us, means to me that we are like in a toaster, roasted by the love of God on all sides until we are done and surrender. Do we ever stand still and appreciate this possibility that God is so close and always with us and that it just a matter of choice? Or are we to busy with our issues and everyday routine to let us sense that perhaps there is a truth that is being shared in this blog?
I love your blog Johanna, you inspire me deeply to say yes to embrace responsibility and that is to reflect God’s love continuously. His love is always present and available for all to feel, to live and to reflect to others.
God is… Will always be… Will always hold us… and Love us.
Very simple Chris, and that is what God is. The only thing is that we have to surrender to his simplicity love is, and eventually we all have to.
God is the bigness inside us, reminding us that we are not small, but an intrinsic part of the all, connected to the all, with the potential of the all inside each and every body.
Universal Medicine presents, with such grace and simplicity, and in so many ways, the opportunity for humanity to return to their true selves, and to know who they truly are.
The word Esoteric is a most beautiful word and, when it is placed before another word such as yoga, the union of their meanings introduces something spectacular and divine to life.
We can have ideals and pictures about what it means or should look like to be religious or in connection with divinity but bringing our awareness to our whole body can actually give us a tangible sense of what that can mean in our daily way of living.
Our bodies naturally attune to that which is divine; it is up to us to create the space for us to connect to that which is natural within us all.
How amazingly wonderfull it is to feel God in every particle of our bodies and to be held in a sea of love continually. Thank you for a gorgeous sharing Johanna.
Yes it is Jill, and the first time I can remember feeling God in every particle of my body was at one of the amazing Universal Medicine courses. It was absolutely incredible to feel the love that we are all held in.
There have been times when I have felt such exquisiteness throughout my body during a Yoga session that feels divine, also at times I have felt soreness pain and hardness which at times seems to dissolve when my attention has been brought to it without any fixing trying or judgment.
‘How do I confirm my Divinity?’ great question and after just having done an Esoteric Yoga session I can absolutely say yes you can definitely ‘Feel the Divinity of God through Esoteric Yoga’ it is such a stunning and supportive modality.
This line ‘jumped out’ at me this morning. A powerful and humbling reminder that I am /we are never alone and always held in this great love whatever events are going on around us. A moment of stop to appreciate the space that is always present for us to move and be present in and with
“One sentence stood out and it was around God being all the space around us, so when we are in the Atma of God, we are in his Space. From this sentence I got that we are always held by His love”.
It all comes back to our choice and where we align ourselves to. We can have the internal critique that is always there ready and poised to tell you how many ways you can’t or are not doing something or we can choose to realise ourselves, let go and surrender ourselves to whatever we are seeing or feeling and keep coming back to this surrendered place of stillness. It doesn’t matter what has happened or who has done what it all comes back to how we are, how I am and what I am putting out into the world.
‘Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity.’ So true Johanna, this is a beautiful reminder of the divinity felt when we are in deep connection with our body, the Esoteric Yoga allows us the space and grace to experience this depth and quality and then to live this in our everyday lives.
Esoteric yoga is such a powerful modality in that it offers us the opportunity to explore our connection to our stillness within through our bodies, in which we come to know and feel our divine inner-sacredness, our union in and with God, so we can bring to life this quality that defines who we really are in essence. This is our natural way of being and the more we live in connection to who we are the more freely we live moved by our divinity.
Beautiful Johanna – it sheds the light on how our body is our absolute goldmine to bring back connection to our life.
I have felt in my Esoteric Yoga sessions that God is in the space I feel within and through me. When I feel areas of tightness or heaviness that are stuck, I can feel I am not letting God into that part of my body and instead choosing something other than love. It is in the space that I feel an absolute connection to everything, like there is no me, just oneness
Dropping deeply into our body; dropping deeply our body in surrender mood allows us to connect to a beauty that is innate in us and that has no end. Doing so is deeply honoring to both ourselves and God.
I like what you say Eduardo, I can feel the deep quality of beauty in my body during my yoga sessions. It’s taking that sense of beauty out into the world, to a world that currently rejects such beauty because humanity doesn’t want to be reminded of how lost it actually is and it finds such pure beauty confronting.
Thank you Johanna , that is truly beautiful. Can connect to what you offer us here – to start to understand that we have a deep divinity inside – and that it is a matter of choosing to connect.. Connecting to who we are from our hearts. A beauty that is beyond word or thought.
“If I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God” – this is so beautiful, and I can feel my whole body nodding a big yes. Space is not empty, it is what holds us in and together, it is love.
I have been recently swapping with a friend, an Esoteric Yoga session, and it’s been fantastic to feel how this half hour session helps to bring more clarity and presence to the rest of my week. Little but powerful things like how I get into bed have completely changed and what movements I am in through out the day have been magnified due to this wonderful modality.
This is super cool – what if the key to knowing who we are is through our movement and our bodies? What if every little movement could be a precious reminder of exactly and precisely who we are?
That we are surrounded by God, in God is not something we often consciously consider and when you do, even for a minute the question becomes how do we live, not as a stricture but as an honouring of us and the fact we are from God.
Great to read this again, there is literally unending love of a magnitude we could barely comprehend surrounding us constantly, gosh we must work hard to both keep it out and not be one with it. Considering it’s also we are in essence it must take tremendous energy to not be and express love.
Esoteric Yoga allows us to confirm the divinity within our own bodies.
Great question ‘how do I confirm my divinity?’ I feel to take this and work with it with the knowing that this comes from my body, the choices I make and the appreciation I have for moments where this is confirmed through the way I am, live and my movements ✨ thank you
What an amazing question – how do we confirm our divinity every day? This is definitely a topic we don’t consider enough, so what a great experiment to take into life.
Johanna I have read and commented on your blog before, and today I felt to come back to it again and I’m glad I did because I found this part
“I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.”
It was the last five words that brought me to a halt that what I do also affects God too be honest I had never thought about this before and it feels huge to feel the enormity of this in my body. And too be honest has given me a new marker to live by.
Amazing to know and feel God’s love all around us and within us, every cell and space within our body, Esoteric yoga is a powerful modality in connecting us to the living stillness within our body.
A fantastic modality that can bridge our way back to our body, which is the instrumental in our connection to God.
I find that the Esoteric Yoga sessions connect me back to something very grand. It provides me with a space to step back from the daily tasks and to gain a clearer and greater perspective on life. This then offers me the opportunity to make choices that are more honouring of myself throughout the day.
I deeply appreciate everything Esoteric Yoga has done for the way I live with myself and others, life has become a far deeper humbling experience because of how we can now feel much more in our body Thanks to these Esoteric Yoga presentations. Esoteric Yoga is all about our divine connection and never about the position or stretch. So it is different In that it is inviting the body to be in that divine connection with God and then a deep harmony that is felt as we connect with our body, which changes our relationship with our body because we learn to feel what our body is telling us. Listening to our body comes about from the connection to the stillness that is felt from within so that so a true understanding of what is happening in our body at all time is understood because our body is realigned to feeling again and this is to the best of our ability as we evolve.
Esoteric Yoga is very gentle and simple in practice, and yet it is profound in all that can be reconnected to in relationship with our stillness. Divinity can be felt in every cell of our body.
“Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity.” This is so beautiful Johanna. Esoteric Yoga is an amazing modality that supports us to rediscover the stillness (a reflection of divinity) within, that we can then take out into the world,
How deeply beautiful Johanna, ‘God being all the space around us’ and we have a piece of divinity, our bodies and how we are with us in that impacts all around including God. We are grand if we choose to be.
If we are in the body of God, it makes absolute sense then as to why, if when we are not expressing our Godliness, our divinity, our truth, we feel life is a struggle, a fight, a mess…… For we are like a mutated cell in the body at that moment, going against the flow of the natural harmony with the whole body of God. We are effectively swimming against the tide and flow of love and harmony so it’s no wonder it feels hard!
In a session recently with Esoteric practitioner I got to feel how I was resisting going deeper to connect to the stillness within. It made absolute sense as I had been living in a raciness and pushing myself for some time with bouts of overeating and at times I felt I couldn’t get to the root cause. Just over 24 hours after the session I could feel a level of stillness that I had not experienced before in this life time setting a new marker for me. It felt real, powerful and gigantic with a deep surrendering and as I walked out of the room about to quicken my pace something stopped me… I simply could not walk at the pace I had been living and was so accustomed to.
Reconnecting to our true quality within allows us to understand the power we hold in our bodies to do away with all the impositions of life and to surrender more to the infinite love of God.
Esoteric Yoga is incredible, mostly because it supports a re-connection with the body and from there is where the deepest intelligence resides – an intelligence that is able to write such a blog as this.
Beautifully said Johanna, Esoteric Yoga offers a place of stillness that confirms God within and around us. We then get the opportunity to feel how it is us that step away from this truth.
‘I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.’
Today I met a teenager who has left school and is staying in his parent’s house and being rude but still expecting to be fed and housed without considering his way of living is having a detrimental effect on the rest of the household and seemingly not caring. This is actually like how I am in God’s house and the universe. I haven’t even considered how I am affects God. It’s like I’ve given myself carte blanch to behave how I want, only sometimes considering how this affects other human beings or animals or plants around me but really there is a bottom line of not caring. Yikes! And then I expect to have a relationship with God but if I’m not coming to the equation with at least a minimum level of respect then how do I expect there to be any more than what I put in? Time to burst apart these notions of entitlement and dependency (God please save us stuff) and start a relationship at least based on respect and decency. One where, dare I say it even, claim myself as a responsible equal.
The beauty of this article is the way that it supports others to not only connect with their own stillness, but offers ways to return to it, to remember it, to claim it and to live it. Written by a true world leader.
To connect to God and our divinity is one thing, but to bring this into everyday life is another. Esoteric Yoga provides a bridge and helps us focus on bringing divinity into our movements.
“My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.” this is powerful, as it highlights the responsibility of walking our talk and treat our bodies as an instrument for God’s work through the tenderness and gentleness innate to us all.
I am starting to realise that hardly any of us in the world today (myself included) are ‘treating ourselves with the love, the delicacy, the tenderness, the gentleness and the care we are and we deserve’….
Very beautiful Johanna, your blog confirms how powerful Esoteric Yoga is and how powerful we all are because everyone single person on earth has access to stillness and a deep connection to God.
I have found the 6 week Esoteric Yoga programs extremely supportive – being able to do them at home and integrate them into my routine has been great. The more I simply surrender to the love that I am the more everything unfolds and makes sense and no longer is life the struggle I used to think it was.
It is beautiful how a yoga session allows us and supports us to connect to the divinity within us, esoteric yoga is a great way to truly build the connection to our stillness.With coming to understand our relationship with our delicateness and tenderness. When we become more aware of all this, we are able to go deeper within the yoga sessions as we allow space within and around us to support our stillness.
‘My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.’ Thank you Johanna for detailing our responsibility to God in every movement and the more I claim my divinity the more I can feel the level of responsibility that I have avoided throughout my life.
Esoteric Yoga has supported me to connect to my inner stillness and it feels totally life changing, the challenge is living that every day. It has been a journey, getting to feel the different parts of my body, and the depth of stillness and tenderness that I can allow when I let go is amazing, and the more the contrast of how I am in the rest of my day exposes the lack of delicacy in so many of my movements.
We have the opportunity to reflect our divinity through the way that we live and move in connection with our body – through the physical showing that we are so much more than physical beings!
Johanna, I have just finished a 6 week course of yoga based around self-worth. I could feel each week how my body was asking me to go deeper and discovering that there is no such thing as a lack of self-worth, which I always felt held me back from life. I discovered for myself that this is just something I made up as an excuse for not being all of me and participating fully in life. At the end of week 6 my body brought me to a total stop. I’m completely floored I cannot do anything as I did before this yoga course, everything has changed including my food, I just have to think about food I used to eat and I feel sick. I thought I could carry on and go off on a business trip arrange everything but on the day of departure I could hardly get out of bed, in fact I have spent all day in bed resting. All I can say is even though they are such small movements when lying down or sitting up, they pack a powerful punch, you get to feel so much within your body and the deep stillness that is there, which for most of us we are not at all aware of, nor the vastness of universe we all come from. The true group work unfolds between the people participating on the course who come from all walks of life and all corners of the world, I am very humbled by my experience.
Esoteric Yoga supports me to be in my body – and stay there. After years of leaving my body at every opportunity this was a revelation for me.
And me also. it was also a revelation that to be with my body was to walk with God.
Esoteric Yoga is a powerful yet gentle way to raise awareness of our connectedness (or lack of) to our bodies, and stillness. We are defined by the quality of our movements and each one affects everything we do and those around us. This awareness supports me to be consciously present and with my body as I move. Anything less is a choice to dis-connect from God. We either move with or without God, there is no in-between.
The delicateness and stillness I can now connect to makes me feel that I am part of a grander whole and that I have an important role in it, while when I am racy in my body and busy in my mind I am lost in our self created world and you can say, I lost my connection with that grandness I am part of and completely unaware of my part in it.
Stillness is a movement that aligns to another movement; the one of the universe, while helps us to confirm that we are part of it. We are a point of light.
I love that Eduardo, ‘stillness is a movement that aligns to another movement’. Stillness is the movement back to God.
Esoteric Yoga is the bridge to know our own divinity and to understand we are not the raciness, worries, and tensions of daily life but that there is something more godly that can be lived at all times and it is just a choice to develop this relationship with our self through the practice of this Esoteric modality.
Same here Rebecca, I have also experienced moments of stillness and exquisite connection to my body, to people and God. But I am finding it challenging to sustain a consistent connection to stillness and a consistent connection to my soul. I am learning to let go of all the things in life that are stopping me from connecting to this divine way of life, living and moving in stillness and in union with God.
Beautiful blog Johanna, this is what I love about Esoteric Yoga, it supports me to connect to the stillness in my body and become so much more aware of how I move and the responsibility of my choices. If I am choosing to not be aware it is then so easy for me to drift back into my old pattern of moving and expressing in disregard, and completely out of rhythm and connection with God.
Perfect timing for me to read this as I feel I have come to a point in my life where enough is enough, meaning for my body/life not to be run by my spirit but instead the innate essence within and so this morning I have given myself the space to reconnect to this, to me. Your blog is exquisite and confirms how every move or action we make has an affect on the all ‘I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.’
Our bodies do connect naturally to the stillness of nature as it is from the same origin. The problem is that we, from our mind, think that we have to do something for it, that we have to do any action or whatsoever, as our mind likes the doing and busyness and in that is the fact we are avoiding the stillness that lives within.
I am in complete agreement with you Johanna – Esoteric Yoga has inspired me beyond measure in returning to the innate stillness within and to feel and then know a connection with God, never experienced in this way before.
“Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity”.
If we are the cells of God then it is testament to his great love that he does not have cancer with so much waywardness being held in his great body.
Well said Liane, what an amazing body of love we are held in.
Johanna Esoteric Yoga is just as you say it is, it introduces and allows stillness into the body which then allows us to get a sense of it. Most of the time we go around in racy bodies so there is no way the body can let you know what is going on for it while we are racing it with the types of ‘fast’ food and liquids we are now consuming. So to feel the stillness and how beautiful it feels in the body during an esoteric yoga session is just sublime.
It’s amazing how Esoteric Yoga opens us up to an understanding of God. The quality of our particles are divine and can be felt as such. I have found that if I am checking out in my life I then check out in a yoga session therefore missing out on what I could potentially feel and take back in to my life. It’s worth taking time to live in a way that prepares me for a yoga session so I can actually feel my divine quality and have a chance of taking this into my life.
“I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.” We can so easily forget how close God really is. To contemplate this truth feels expansive and helps me feel my multi-dimensionality.
“I realised embodying this stillness meant to claim my delicacy and stillness as a woman and having it be there in every facet of my life, and especially in every way I express.” To come to this realisation is most liberating.
I love what you have shared Johanna, and how very tangible the experience of being connected to God is.
Thank you Johanna, what a powerful line “God being all the space around us.” It’s too easy to get caught up in my individual life, make it about worries or challenges, personal goals etc when all the time I actually live in the body of God and can be connected to that grandness in every moment. It sure highlights how reduced life can be made, instead of it being the wonder, awe, sacredness, power and love it can be from simply understanding we live in the body of God. If God is in the space around and inside me then how easy is it to connect to God? 🙂
We are always held in God’s love. This feels true, and, it ignites the possibility that every person on earth is a son of God, and so to feel his love, we need only to look to each other and be that love that is in us with ourselves and with each other, then God’s love is being lived on earth, which at present is quite a loveless place.
Thank you Shami, it’s a beautiful way to look at how we can connect to God – through each other. From organised religion I had the belief that God was “out there”, if not “above” and kind of unreachable. Instead the truth is we live in the body of God, and we can connect to God via our inner most heart and body, and live God’s love in every moment if we so choose.
“The most incredible part of the session was the moment when I tangibly felt the light and grandness I am, and that every part of me holds this love. ” This is so beautiful Johanna. I love the stillness that I feel when practising Esoteric Yoga.
This is a consciousness shattering realisation “then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.” The responsibility we have is immense and yet should be completely normal.
In the Stillness we feel the union of ourselves with God. Every particle in our body at One with every other particle in the greater body of God, this gigantic Universe we are held in.
Thank you Johanna for sharing the truth of how through our connection to who we are within and our bodies, is where we truly discover what it is to be ourselves and bring this presence to all we do.
Posing such questions as ‘How do I confirm my Divinity?’ completely changes the self-dialogue and contemplation. It offers an opportunity to expand from the reductionism the world is in and brings understanding to how we may be living and why — but from an energetic perspective thus allowing the expansion.
“So we are each then responsible for how we are and treat every cell and fibre of our own body” Through Esoteric Yoga I’ve learnt to be with my body in a way I never used to be. I’ve noticed how I can be loving, attentive and playful with myself which has naturally come to my other relationships also.
I really enjoyed reading this again. One of the astounding benefits is in revealing who we truly are. Through the deep reconnection Esoteric Yoga offers I have gradually gotten to know my true essence again as a woman. To now realise I am grace, stillness, love, beauty and truth, to feel all my gorgeousness when I speak and share who I am, and move emanating all these qualities is deeply profound. There is nothing to aspire to just a deep surrender back to being in union with all that I am. There are no words to truly express all the appreciation and wonder I have for what has transpired for me in Esoteric Yoga sessions.
I love what you share here Johanna, after many years spent experiencing very physical forms of yoga it was difficult at first for me to let go of all the physical postures I had felt yoga to be. Esoteric Yoga offers the body something completely different and much grander than any physical posture ever gave me – an opportunity to connect with my body and to experience a deep stillness that allowed me to feel God and divinity as you so beautifully share here.
I just finished a Esoteric Yoga session, we are in week 3. I am constantly amazed at what we can actually feel in our bodies and what our bodies share with us when we tune in. And I also saw how much I tune out. And that I have a choice to build consistency to keep tuning in. No giving myself a hard time, just keep tuning in to what is there. And gosh, what a wonder that is there for us.
Me too Sarah – also in week 3 and my body communicated loud and clear all the patterns I choose to distract and hold back the enormity of light I could live. Even though at the time I was just plain irritated and wanted the session to be over, that was a good sign that the session was super powerful!
When you understand the connection you realign to in Esoteric Yoga, you understand why traditional yoga has strayed so far from the truth. It has become about striving, about physical posture. Ironically, true yoga is about posture, but not in the sense that it is about postures. Rather it is about movement of the physical body, and the quality of that movement. And through such movement, one creates what is called the kingly body, or a body that energetically reflects out true divinity. In other words, it is through movement that we get to know the truth of God, not through the pondering of the mind as we have been taught. So, back to traditional yoga, the problem is that it has created movements that in themselves do not encourage one to truly connect to stillness or their essence, but keep one in a movement that is actually disconnecting.
I love the conversations around Esoteric Yoga and what a difference this is from other forms of yoga I’ve tried in the past. Esoteric Yoga is purely about union, and about connecting to our bodies. The stillness it allows us is so deep and my body simply loves it. It sets a foundation for the rest of the day, and is very confirming.
I find Esoteric Yoga helps me to give myself the time and space to reconnect and feel my body. Whilst I can do this myself, attending a class in person or live online, infact even a recorded session offers me a space where I feel held to go deeper within myself.
This is what I love about Esoteric Yoga Katie it really support me to connect to my body and hence to everything around me and beyond.
Esoteric Yoga is an incredible modality, absolutely divine. I love what you’ve shared Johanna that we are in Atma of God and always held in His love, this means we are constantly surrounded by His love. How we are not able to feel this shows how disconnected we have become and Esoteric Yoga supports us to reconnect to stillness and therefore reconnect to God and the love that surrounds us all.
‘…God being all the space around us, so when we are in the Atma of God, we are in his Space. From this sentence I got that we are always held by His love.’ This is so humbling and at the same time awe inspiring Johanna! We really are held in absolute observant love by God.
‘…how have I been knowingly holding myself back from claiming/living the light of my soul in my body?’ What a wonderful question to ask of oneself. It astounds me how much I shy away from claiming and living the light of my soul – I’ll constantly sabotage myself. Now when you think about it, that is astounding – and not in a good way. The next question to ask is; ‘And why would I do that?’.
Great understanding to share Johanna, thank you – that we are in the beholding body of God. I hadn’t quite grasped this before, and what it means to be anything less than honouring of, well, everything and everyone. Anytime we’re not, it’s a dishonoring of God, and ourselves as godly beings.
Beautifully confirming blog, through Esoteric Yoga we get to feel very tangibly the divinity within us and also all that can get in the way of us connecting to our natural essence.
‘I tangibly felt the light and grandness I am, and that every part of me holds this love’ … I love the absoluteness shared here, how every last bit of us has this innate lightness, grandeur and holds the divinity we are, no part of us is excluded. We are all of God.
Esoteric Yoga, very simple but very effective in helping one to connect back to their essence
I also love Esoteric Yoga! The stillness and openness I feel when I take the time for me in this way is truly supportive. It shows me instantly how I have been living day-to-day as a point of reference.
This is beautiful, my heart sings and I allow myself to really feel the stillness of love that is within and all around….”I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.” I often have had picture of God, to look, sound a certain way, it is not it, I feel God deeply, that is all there is to it, no need for words or pictures…God is a feeling, a Lived Way.
Esoteric Yoga allows us to get to know ourselves for the true quality that we are and the more we deepen the relationship with it the more we can surrender to the divine.
Esoteric Yoga with practice becomes every move we make as we offer ourselves a deep connection to our inner stillness, love and God.
Great sharing Johanna, esoteric yoga really brings connection to the body, and the stillness that can be felt deep in the body is a great way to start asking ourselves if the way we live supports this depth of stillness.
Reading that was like doing Esoteric Yoga, I got to feel and confirm the stillness within and the importance in letting this be felt by all I encounter. Thanks Johanna.
“. . .my light is far grander than any tension or issue that I may still have in my body.” It’s just a matter of a change of focus. By focusing on an issue we can magnify it and it seems to be who we are but once we take our focus off it and feel how the body is beneath the tension we will find that the joy, love and light is still there within us unchanged. When we acknowledge that it expands and any darkness diminishes.
Esoteric yoga is such a simple yet profound modality. Having done other forms of yoga, I now see that they are bastardised versions of what is true yoga…union. No poses necessary. In fact the poses take us further away from ourselves. Esoteric yoga has offered me an opportunity to know the stillness inside me and how to move with this.
I so love that stillness is not about being still, but it is a quality within ourselves with which we can move our body – if I try to think it or figure this out in my head it’s actually upsettingly confusing and I want to throw a tantrum, but Esoteric Yoga amongst other Esoteric modalities offered by Universal Medicine supports me greatly to connect this quality that is already within me and makes it so simple and I just love how simple and natural it actually feels to be that way.
We are held in love, yet most of the world is seeking it from sources that cannot express it mainly because true love is not being lived. Space holds everything, and that space is God, and God is love and we are made in his light as the same. So… space feels like an absolute confirmation of what is within and our bodies hold space for us to express the love of God, if we choose to know and live it. I love how this all works.
Thank you Johanna for a truly inspiring article on Esoteric Yoga, it is so powerful in all that it reveals. I love these words “I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do, not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.”
Esoteric Yoga is so powerful in that through deepening our relationship to our body we can have a deepening relationship to God. I find it interesting that in some religions and forms of spirituality there is the idea that the body is sinful in some way, or to get away from the body, or to reduce caring for it we can be closer to God, ascend or gain enlightenment. I have found the complete opposite, that it’s actually through a deep connection to the whole body and my self love and self care that I allow a greater awareness of and connection to God.
I listened to that audio too about space and time and remember that is was a great revelation to me that space is not empty as we like to think it is, and that we are held by the love within it. How do I move myself through that, do I let that love in?
I have a great love of Esoteric Yoga. It has supported me to deepen the stillness within, to allow surrender and delicacy, to have greater awareness of my body and with that awareness of everything around me.
We can have a relationship in our bodies or spaciousness, where we allow our particles to be light, expansive and allow space in, so we need not feel much separation between our physical nature and our divine one.
The wonderful thing about Esoteric Yoga is that it supports us to be more aware of what is going on in our bodies. The more connected we are with our bodies the more we can take responsibility for what is occurring for us.
If God is the space around us, the quality of our movements become key to the kind of relationship we have with divinity.
Beautiful Johnna, just recently with my partner I have seen that if I am not appreciating life and with this spaciousness of God you describe, I can really notice that issues and problems can come in. I can get stuck in needing to fix them and resolve them in some way, when actually all I need to do is to choose to come back to this quality in my body that is grand and profound. Wow – this way I can see that every day literally is about the yoga of life, with my heart and body the key to knowing harmony inside and out of me.
A beautiful reminder to come back to the wisdom of the body and be aware that our movements are felt by all because we are all held in the same space.
I love how each session of Esoteric Yoga is always different and uncovers little pockets of energy that we can let go of and surrender to the body’s natural alignment. It really is an amazing healing modality.
The body awareness that I get from using the simple Esoteric Yoga techniques is life changing and all from the simplest of movements.
It is also amazing how play-full I feel in my body after these simple but body changing ways of feeling!
it really is wonderful when we start tuning to our bodies at the depth and level of presence and awareness that Johanna is referring to.
To consider every moment can be chosen in the graciousness and equalness of God’s divine love and reflection is a truth that the inner heart and body know in absoluteness. It is choosing this knowing that is up to me. If I’m not choosing this the reality is I’m saying no to the divine. There is responsibility in every choice in every moment.
‘My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.’ In every movement we either reflect the divine or not, it is a choice and through Esoteric Yoga I am becoming aware of this quality in my movements and to take this out in my everyday live, everyday movements and to feel what gets in the way of my divinity and to let this go.
In order to feel ‘all that we are’, we need simply let go of ‘all we are not’ that we have chosen to live in place of the great love that we are.
I love this Liane – the simplicity of letting go of ‘all that we are not’ is the key to being all that we are.
“my light is far grander than any tension or issue that I may still have in my body.” this is so awesome to hear, and so perfect for me to day. Though my body maybe feeling a tension, but to completely surrender and know that my light is far grander to allow this tension to fade away.
Esoteric Yoga is a god send! I really appreciate that the practitioners live in a way that is so full of integrity that they can present this gold to the world.
I’ve just started my 6-week esoteric yoga program with Vicky and it has been amazing thus far. When stillness is brought to our everyday movements much can be achieved.
I am inspired by the choice that we can so obviously make to honour our Divinity in equalness to God, or not. It could be as simple as choosing to avoid the evolution such a modality brings by not choosing to do it when the opportunity arises. But the choice is there always. It is our way of living.
‘ God being all the space around us, so when we are in the Atma of God, we are in his Space’. Gorgeous line and makes so much sense to me today as I have been feeling so much more connected and aware of all the space around me……in other words I have been feeling deeply connected to God and with this connection brings a knowing and a trusting that everything I need is already there.
It’s a big responsibility and yet we are all a part of God and we have always been part of God, It is an awesome fact about us that we live in God and God lives in us. We are divine and making our way back to the truth of who we are.
Esoteric Yoga has helped me feel that stillness is not a checking out but a checking in to my body, it has a very tangible feel.
I really love how you have expressed here in such details that it touches the same within my body and brings it up into my awareness so tangibly. Thank you Johanna for your sharing. “How do I reject my delicacy, my stillness and ultimately God if I am not allowing myself to be” – this is a big stop sign. We are more space than we appreciate, and for the part we ARE, our job, the responsibility – is simply to just be.
Johanna, what a great feeling and it is so true when you make it about more than just you how everything changes. When we focus in on ourselves life can be a struggle but when we look at the bigger picture everything makes sense. Esoteric Yoga is great at bringing things back to the quality we live with.
Being reminded of this responsibility that all I do affects God’s body because we are in it, brings more awareness to how I choose to live. It seems sometimes I am polluting God’s body and sometimes I am growing it and supporting it. My body belongs to God so therefore I must be loving with how I live in this body.
It is always beautiful to read of people touched by a moment of deep connection and awareness, sharing their learning and reflections and in doing so inspiring others with what is possible to feel and live as they move through life. Gorgeous.
The quality of stillness that I have felt during esoteric yoga I have not felt through any other yoga class or program. Relaxed yes…stillness no. It’s quite a profound feeling of space within and I have felt this no matter what is going on in my body. Which says to me this is available all the time, only if I choose this way of being and it only depends on my connection, nothing else.
This is beautiful Johanna, learning to reconnect and recognise the enormous light we are and that we hold, grander than any issue or tension that resides in our body, brings back the true perspective to living here on earth and what we are here to bring and to learn together.
Thank you, Johanna. When we have the awareness of living within God’s body, we cannot but be making more responsible choices in terms of the way we move, what we eat, how we speak etc. Everything we do has a ripple affect of greater proportions than what we consider when we limit our awareness to me in my little world.
Further confirming how everything is connected.
I have recently started another Esoteric Yoga course and I am astounded once again at the deeper levels of stillness and reflections that are available to me. This time I also felt a complete re-imprinting of my general movements which meant I was more aware when I ran into things, knocked things over and hurt myself being too rough! All this from one of the most simple disciplines I have ever taken part in.
Johanna, thank you for sharing. Esoteric Yoga is great at helping me connect my self and my stillness. It is very simple yet its effects are very profound.
I love how you have summarised this power truth, Johanna, that we are in fact confirming God with every moment of presence and gentleness in our movements. This feels very humbling, but also to live in this way and with this awareness feels simple and natural at the same time.
“How do I confirm my Divinity?” This question made me stop and ponder. How do I confirm that I am divine? What actions do I do, or support do I have in place to remind myself that I am indeed one with One? It is something to ponder further, but I know that since beginning to follow The Way of The Livingness I have been given a vast array of tools and ways to acknowledge that I am indeed divine. These tools need to come out and have a polish!
It is so super important to know where our body is at all of the time, not just in how we generally feel but in how each area of the body truly feels with regard to held tensions, tightness, pain but also deliciousness, lightness and flow.
Johanna, I adore the way you write and what you have to share. You write in a way that has such strength and power, is relate-able, down-to-earth and real whilst also connecting us to something much grander and I always gain great insights into whatever you are writing about. I could feel the delicateness of myself as a woman and how Esoteric Yoga connects us to this and supports us to be in our bodies and to feel the grandness that is there. Thank you.
Esoteric Yoga is very different from any other yoga that I have ever done. There is a stillness that Esoteric Yoga supports you to connect with that really is a gateway to feeling God in the body. It is exquisite.
Johanna, there is such beauty in this blog, I have never truly connected to the fact that we are in the body of God and thus everything we do affects all of us and God. Actually I’ve deliberately shied away from that, and wanted to come back to just me, and not see the wider picture, but I know innately that is not true, that I am of God and so everything I do affects everything, including God, so now to allow myself to truly feel that in my body is the next step.
It is essential that humanity understands and experiences the quality of stillness and opens the doorway to our own inner being… And Esoteric Yoga is a wonderful doorway to open.
Johanna – what you write here – ‘I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.’ – this is responsibility through and through – to know in our bodies that there is so much more than just our personal behaviours and actions – that we are all connected and each movement effects another.
I finished an online Esoteric Yoga program yesterday. I went out for lunch and decided to take my time eating for a change (I usually rush). Its hard to describe what was different, but I enjoyed my meal, felt more connected to my husband who was with me and felt a whole body sensation of well-being. When we make a choice to be consciously present with each move we make, even chewing our food, it changes our experiences of the everyday things. The impact of esoteric yoga is far reaching.
So great Johanna, feeling divinity through Esoteric Yoga sounds so amazing, using this heavenly modality as a way to connect to your essence, very inspiring. My own experiences have been to feel such incredible stillness in my body, to feel all of me and who I deeply am from within.
In reading this it feels like the space in which we live is forever permeated by the essence of God and in every moment of the day we have the opportunity to align to that or not.
I am currently on an esoteric yoga programme as well, and I have been noticing that I am checking out in my thoughts or falling asleep more during the session, and wondering what I was checking out from. I feel see how so many of activities in my life are actually being actioned to avoid awareness. Your sharing has offered me something to ponder on deeply. Thank you, Johanna.
It is a great responsibility to be living in the space that is god, and it shows the quality we are in is so very important. We are grand and it is our responsibility to live this in all that we do.
“Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity.” Absolutely we a part of the grand love of God and sure is our responsibility to reflect it to others.
Johanna, reading this today I could feel my body open up and be the delicacy I carry and how it’s about living and being that in each moment how I move, how I am everything, thanks for reminding me.
‘So we are each then responsible for how we are and treat every cell and fibre of our own body… treating ourselves with the love, the delicacy, the tenderness, the gentleness and the care we are and we deserve.’ Esoteric Yoga is making me aware how my body responds on my loving and tender attention and dedication to be with all I feel and experience, this modality is simple but takes me to a depth of love I never have been able to feel.
‘My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.’ I feel how dismissive I have been towards my body and how this has been a choice to not feel my connection with God, I am following an Esoteric Yoga program at the moment and it is an amazing support to be tender and loving with my body and to feel how we are all connected with each other and with God.
So beautiful to read Johanna, thank you, esoteric yoga is a very gentle but powerful modality. A time to surrender to what our body is revealing in the deep tenderness and sacredness that we is hold within.
Esoteric Yoga is an incredible modality. “So we are each then responsible for how we are and treat every cell and fibre of our own body” I love that this is with the awareness of being within the body of a greater being and affecting every other cell/body within that space.
Esoteric Yoga is an amazing technique to connect back to things of ours that we have ignored for so long and make them part of us. A true re-union.
My first experience of Esoteric Yoga was on a Vietnam retreat many years ago and it was compulsory to attend as it was part of the retreat and obviously had a grand purpose, but I struggled every minute of it and dreaded those early morning sessions – every part of my body ached, especially my lower back. And here I am just about to start another Esoteric Yoga program with Vicky and just love how it brings up so much for me to look at and every time I take part in a yoga session it is totally different than the last, and yes at times parts of me still ache but now I welcome what my body has to show me.
Esoteric Yoga is for me a moment to feel my body at a deeper level, which allows me to establish a mark of love in it, where I’m able to come back when I feel tension, anxiety or whatever feeling that makes me feel disconnected to who I am. With each session, I re-imprint the cells of my whole body, for them to flow with my true essence.
I have been committing to a 6 week Esoteric Yoga program just recently, this is the 3rd time I have done one of these programs. As part of the program, instead of dialling in on the actual morning, you can do it via a recording if should there be any reason you cannot attend. In the past, I always went for those options, not ever being able to fully commit to ‘myself’ that I was going to be present for each morning across the 6 weeks. But this program, I have been able to do just that. I have been feeling such a difference in each session, how much more I have been in my body, which has been an amazing marker and confirmation for myself of developing my conscious presence.
Recently I have just started to do 5 minutes Esoteric Yoga a day where I use the opportunity to reconnect back to myself, so far I have been amazed at how quickly and powerfully I can get back to me and feel the quality of stillness again that I may have lost during the day. Esoteric Yoga is simply profound!
Esoteric Yoga is a powerful modality, one I treasure deeply in my life, for the healing that I receive within every session… within every program… is immense.
Johanna on re-reading this blog I deeply resonated with these words ‘I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.’ I’m realising more and more how this happens on a very micro scale, not just the obvious. Esoteric Yoga gives me the opportunity to feel how the body reflects every little choice that has been made, and the opportunity to allow the particles to realign with the space around me. It is amazing feeling the whole group expand into this space together.
Thanks Johanna, I had the joy of experiencing yoga everyday in the morning and afternoon at this year’s Universal Medicine retreat, it felt amazing to have time to deeply connect and in that connection feel the universality of everything. I was also intrigued as to how much my mind wanted to control and bring me back to the smallness and individuality.
Esoteric Yoga is indeed a heavenly sent modality. Through its simple movements it connects us to everything – our bodies, our fellow brothers and sisters, to God, to the Universe – we get to feel that we are all connected and the responsibility and exquisiteness of that is quite sublime. It also supports you – in very practical ways – to learn how to be with your body and to support yourself in each and every moment.
I too have experienced some amazing things during an Esoteric Yoga session, the stillness, the connection, the ability to truly feel our divinity and wisdom of the universe that we come from is so wonderful and worth the time and space to develop this connection with oneself.
That is so cool Johanna, I have found the Esoteric Yoga sessions help me to deepen the level of stillness in my body, to give myself the time and space to feel me. I have always been the quick fix kind of person and so to actually be with myself for 30-60mins eyes closed for most of the time was challenging at 1st and the change in my quality before and after a yoga session is well worth the time spent as I then take it into the rest of my day and life.
I love what you share here Johanna, “I felt a responsibility: if I am in God, that is, all the space around me, including the space and particles in my body – while also God being in my heart – then all I do not only affects me and others around me, but it also affects God.” How different would our world be if we lived with such awareness and responsibility?
Your words Johanna so beautifully confirm the deep connection that is possible when we surrender through the body and meet our naturally divine selves. It was very beautiful to read thank you. Esoteric Yoga sessions are profound in their simplicity.
“God being all the space around us” – I got this understanding when I was reading your words Johanna. I got what this means from a body experience. What a contracted body looks like and what an open expanded body looks like. From these visions I came to be more aware when we feel things in our body that are stiff or tight. It is something that needs freeing so there is space to allow the Divine flow.
I am in the last week on an esoteric yoga program with Vicky and as always, it feels so supportive. It shows me that there is no end point or result that I have to go to. With every yoga program I do, I am experiencing new and deeper levels of stillness and surrendering. It supports me with connecting to my body and like you share, deepening my relationship with God.
‘My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.’ Lately when walking with our dog I felt my body and my surroundings and I could feel that yes I have a physical body but there is no boundary between my body and the outside world. It was a beautiful feeling and it confirmed me in being one with God.
A beautiful sharing thank you Johanna, I love the questions you ask yourself, especially this one:’ how have I been knowingly holding myself back from claiming/living the light of my soul in my body? Such a simple question but an awesome opportunity to reflect upon our day and notice where we have held back.
Esoteric yoga is the best, I just started an online program this week and it is an absolute joy to be part of it. There is never an end result but always a deepening of the relationship with my body, myself and God. This blog is a great reminder to remind myself that God is everywhere.
To have a modality on earth that can support this type of realization to occur is nothing short of pure divinity at work –”Inspired by Esoteric Yoga, I have been able to feel we are all equally part of God’s grand love and it is our responsibility to reflect this divinity.”
Recently, I experienced the deepest connection to my body in an Esoteric Yoga Session I have ever felt – the stillness was exquisite. I could feel that in the space there is no separation from divinity and in truth we are never separated from Divinity but there are times we choose distraction rather than connection. Being in this connection feels amazing and knowing that this is available makes me question why we would ever choose any other way. Thanks Johanna – I can total get what you are sharing and it is beautiful.
The truth of this sentence is what stood out to me Johanna, – ” My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.” I love the fact that we can in a very tangible way know God through the body.
Our body is the vessel through which we express, and this expression is felt by all. So it is great reminder that it is our responsibility to listen to our body to support it to be a vessel for true expression and not neglect it like it us our enemy.
Mary it is a great reminder that our light is grander than tension and issues in our body,. We are the beams of light, reflecting Gods love . As we connect deeper to the light within us the tension and issues start to dissolve.
“I tangibly felt the light and grandness I am, and that every part of me holds this love.” I was part of esoteric yoga twice a day recently on a retreat, it is beautiful to confirm, I felt the light and grandness I am, and the delicateness in my touch and stillness in my body. And knowing this body is within the space of God, I could feel the great responsibility in bringing my stillness and reflection to everyone.
Having just spent last week on retreat where we practised Esoteric Yoga twice a day, re reading this blog this morning has confirmed all that I had been feeling from what I have been experiencing with the practise of Esoteric Yoga in that by connecting with my light and my love in stillness, I know that I am part of the All and that the All is part of me.
Johanna what a fantastic reminder of our responsibility we have to the all and to never hold back our love, tenderness and delicateness. Thank you.
I have been experience esoteric chair yoga and it has been amazing, feeling the stillness in the room at the end of the session, and within myself compared with the first few moments. Making the choice to stay with my body is slowly becoming easier and more consistent. I love the opportunity provided by esoteric yoga to conform my divinity, through stillness. A fantastic modality.
Agreed Sue I have been doing the Esoteric Yoga and it has been a joy to do, I can feel how quickly my body will drop into the stillness. Before I used to be struggling with trying to quieten my thoughts, but this time I have gone straight into feeling my body and the gentle movements that we do. It really is an amazing modality that as you say Sue, confirms our divinity through stillness.
Love it – light to issue ratio. Check. Will take that into my day today, thanks Alexis.
That is so true Mariette there are so many people being engaged with looking at this dot on the wall instead of seeing the bigger picture. This is how we keep ourselves busy so that there is no time to feel how grand we really are.
“The most incredible part of the session was the moment when I tangibly felt the light and grandness I am, and that every part of me holds this love” – I can very much relate to this. Esoteric Yoga takes me into deep stillness, so deep that I get to have a magnified view of minute parts of my bodies (physical and emotional) and there I find exquisite magnificence of God and His design, and I know I am perfectly imperfect.
It is so supportive kevmchardy and what I find is that it gives me permission to allow my body to share what it wants to share without me telling what it wants/needs etc….. and to feel that incredible stillness that exists within us all.
I agree Sarah, it is crazy how in this day and age stillness amongst society is quite rare, we go out of our way to avoid it by choosing all sorts of distractions, yet stillness is always there inside us we just cover it up! Esoteric Yoga is an amazing way to reconnect to that amazing feeling inside that in truth we never lost, we were just choosing to avoid it.
“How have I been knowingly holding myself back from claiming/living the light of my soul in my body?”
In my experience, when I fully surrender what I have been investing in to hold myself back from claiming the light of my soul, the energy that is available to me is just there, burning steadily to hold me to continue expressing what is needed, not for me but for all.
“My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.”
Esoteric Yoga is a beautiful way to feel our expansiveness, our tenderness and delicacy and re-connecting to these innate qualities makes it natural to then move like this through our day. I have found that by practicing Esoteric Yoga regularly, this way of being with my body is becoming who I am.
And as you say Johanne, the responsibility is naturally there – we are God and God is within us. We are required to hold this divinity for one and for all.
“I realised embodying this stillness meant to claim my delicacy and stillness as a woman and having it be there in every facet of my life, and especially in every way I express.”
This makes a lot of sense as what we do in each and every moment becomes who we are. So if we are aware of our delicacy as we express, in every interaction, it confirms and supports us to simply live like this.
As a man I initially found esoteric yoga to be quite a challenge – and I initially had much resistsance to sitting still for that amount of time. Yet, even through that I could not deny the warmth of connection that flooded my veins whenever I chose to surrender and be still. – and yes, often it sent me to sleep, not because I wanted to, but simly becauase it felt so lovely.
Having the techniques to re-connect with God through our physical body is a gift that Esoteric Yoga introduces in to our lives. It is worth noting that this connection is never lost or taken away, it is always there. The technique supports you to be aware of it, and to bring it in to your everyday life, because actually living in connection with God from within you is a very most normal way to be.
Esoteric Yoga provides an amazing way in which we can connect with our bodies, something many of us strive very hard to avoid feeling. I have recently been on an Esoteric Yoga program and it has allowed me to go deeper in my connection with my body and has been truly amazing.
“We are all equally part of Gods grand love”. When I reconnect to who I truly am at heart I know this to be true. The simplicity of Esoteric Yoga belies its profundity.
I so get what you are sharing here, it is through the yoga that I have become more aware of how my body feels on a very subtle level. This in turn means that I become much more aware of how I am with and in my body after the sessions. The fact that it is a program means the conversation is an ongoing one which builds a good foundation of ‘normal’.
What is so great about embarking on a program is that you really don’t know where it will end or what the results will be, there is just an awareness that something needs to change. And a program can support you with that, can give structure to the change, and point you in the right direction should you at some point go a bit off the rails.
I find programs a great support when you surrender and allow it to unfold. Having that awareness that something needs to be changed the structure is a great support. The program provides beautiful unfoldments when there is not expectations.
This line really is superb and a very good reminder for today, as I had allowed some reactions to stick, I wasn’t quite able to surrender and feel fully what the reaction was about. This stayed with me all day, it felt pretty yuk, but reading this line…..’that my light is far grander than any tension or issue that I may still have in my body’, is just such a great reminder.
What a beauty-full awareness and sharing of your amazing experience in an Esoteric Yoga session Joe. It is inspiring me to allow myself to surrender more in the Esoteric Yoga session which I am soon to attend. Very timely reading. Thank you.
Esoteric Yoga brings me to a place of stillness, where sometimes I am not able to go during my work. Every time I was taking part in a course there was an invitation to feel my body and connect to my deep inner stillness.
Participating in esoteric modalities such as Esoteric Yoga brings greater awareness of what’s happening with our bodies and confirms our connection with god.
Yes, agree Joe, participating in Esoteric Yoga is is like pressing the ‘reset’ button (if there was one) where the check-in into the body and being WITH it, allows you to feel your true quality and presence, and reveals how this quality is always WITH you, it never goes away, its only us that step away (by distraction) from it… A truly formidable modality that is medicine to the body.
I agree Johanne, it is true medicine to the body makes us feel and know who we truly are and where we come from.
Thank you Mariette for this reminder that all the tensions and issues are just a small dot on the wall. It can appear massive at times because we live in a world that is so intensely focused on the tension and issues, but the earth is not the centre of the universe. I also loved this line “My confirming of God is felt in the way I choose to be with my physical body.” When we choose to take a step back and feel the greater picture we receive the greater picture.
Susan I agree that reading this blog confirms all I have experienced from the Esoteric Yoga sessions and inspires me to bring this into my daily life more deeply.
Well said Annie C. As a society we continue to shoot the messenger and fail to listen to the message. Esoteric Yoga is a great antidote to this pattern of ill-relationship with the body.
Mary I love your comment, and the analogy that we are amplifiers, and if choose to amplify God’s love, the universe expands. Just beautiful.
That’s so beautiful Mary, ” we are amplifiers of Gods love, pure and simple. By amplifying his love the universe expands.”
Recently I did a trio esoteric yoga workshop after a long time, so I was expecting to be stiff or tight, so that’s what was in my head. So when I laid down I could feel the tightness in my back and in my legs. As soon as I started to surrender to my stillness this tightness faded and my body expanded and I felt lighter. It was a beautiful feeling, how quickly surrendering to our stillness causes expansion in the body.
What a wonderfully revealing list of beliefs that Alexis starts of with… so much of what society proffers to us is exposed here , and as is stated… the list is indeed endless.
We are indeed held in the womb of God, with grace and love abounding, and knowing this we still have, with every breath , the free will to connect with the Divine or not… the choice that faces humanity.
I recently had my first one-on-one esoteric yoga session and found I had a huge resistance to it. The resistance was because I have been living a life out of connection with my body and have not been wanting to feel what is there to be felt. And even though there was a lot of discomfort in my body while doing the yoga, the amazing thing is that I could feel my particles shifting and reconfiguring, releasing deeply held emotions. Esoteric Yoga is something I want to continue with as I can really feel the deep healing that can come from it.
Through Esoteric Yoga I come to know my essence, I come to know me and through coming to know me, I come to know God.
Having recenty finished a Trio Esoteric Yoga course which was a practise of Esoteric Yoga three days in a row, I was reminded of the absolute power and self healing that takes place in every single session of Esoteric Yoga.