Svadhyaya

Svadhyaya is the movement to understand one's self on an intellectual, emotional, and mental level.  As we become more conscious of our body, mind, and breath, our yogic practice allows us to become more aware of how we react or rejoice to each moment of success, challenge, or stillness.

It is when we can understand the nature of our thought and feeling that we can discover what we are not.  Finding out who you are not gives rise to the spaciousness in which you find your Self as you really are--Unknown, Mysterious, and Unconditioned.

Svadhyaya allows us the opportunity to learn about all the little ins and outs of our little person, and how we've come to believe in this story called "me".  When we see that our lives have been toward living out this little story, there is the grace of something much more vast taking over our lives, our being.