The Sacred Yoga
By Gurudev

•Experience the sacredness of yoga. Enter the sanctuary of your soul.

Treat your body as a temple, explore the sacredness of the embodied soul. Let consciousness sanctify your physical, mental and emotional bodies and awaken the soul consciousness.

• Explore the Ancient Guarded Wisdom and Secrets of Yoga.

It is simple to integrate the sacredness of the soul into your practice of postures. Experience the presence of the spirit and the glory of the divine. Manifest it as peace, love and joy in your heart.

This practice offers you direct passage to the soul's innermost corridors. It retrieves, recaptures and integrates the sacred wisdom of yoga. It elevates the ordinary practice of yoga to a level of sacredness of the soul. You experience it more like a prayer than posture; more like a divine dance than strained discipline.

• During the practice of Yoga, dark, unconscious Forces surface.

They manifest themselves through physical, mental and emotional bodies and are transformed into light by the presence of integrative consciousness. This depth retrieves the treasured principles of ancient yoga that have been lost or ignored in popular yoga practices.

The yoga of depth recaptures the spiritual roots that are missing in a body-centered practice. It makes your practice deeply soothing, contemplative, relaxing and healing.

• A Yoga Practice that Integrates Authentic Principles of Hatha and Raja Yoga into a Holistic Practice is Meditation in Motion.

Only when your practice becomes a prayerful integration of body, mind and heart does it awaken and release the deepest healing forces lying latent in the body.

Postures with an inner dimension can be adopted regardless of your physical ability. They enhance and deepen your present practice.

The major integrative benefits of yoga have nothing to do with physical skills or flexibility. It is the right attitude and awareness with which you encounter and eliminate mental and emotional blocks that surface during the practice of yoga.

In this posture, you will learn how to integrate the primal wisdom that animates your body. You can then eliminate emotional reactions that inhibit the flow of divine shakti.

• Proactive Yoga is a Tribute to your Soul rather than a Condemnation of the Body's Limitations.

No matter how far you progress in a body-centered practice, you cannot bypass limitations that are inherent in the body. You are still bound by those limitations. No matter how far you progress in mental discipline, you cannot bypass the limitations within which the mind functions.

When body-mind feelings (the heart center) act in a complementary fashion, you suddenly enhance the capacity of both the body and the mind, even though you haven't yet entered the domain of the spirit.

When actions (postures) and thoughts move with the same intention under the guidance of the ego, they produce external achievements. But when they move together as tools of consciousness, it brings spiritual unfoldment and integration. Then - yoga happens.

• Resources are outside. Source is within.

You can maintain your unconscious attitudes, fears and inhibitions and still be successful in creating resources. But to connect with the Source, you must let go of all that holds you back.

For resources, you can adopt a spiritual master and even adopt spiritual disciplines, but you cannot be happy. Your ego-self that brought you success is in the way.

The yoga system I have developed is very unique, but it is not new. The ingredients are ancient. What is new is the recipe. When I tell you the principles and techniques that are integrated into this yoga, you will recognize for yourself that is it yoga of depth.

Concentration can be a tool of ego, but meditation is the transcendence of body, mind and ego.

Copyright Yogi Amrit Desai 1998