What Does Yoga Say About Living a Happy Life?

Yoga teaches that one of the most powerful paths to a fulfilled, healthy life is cultivating gratitude. 🙏🏻

We hear it so often that it starts to sound obvious. But most of the time, we're still focused on what we want, what we're missing, what others have that we don't.

That's raga and dvesha (attachment and aversion) quietly running the show behind the scenes of our minds.

Seeing Is a Skill

Gratitude is a practice. Seeing the beauty already in your life is a skill, not a circumstance.

It's not about WHERE you are. It's about HOW YOU SEE where you are.

And like every skill, it's built through consistency, not intensity. 🐄

A Few Questions to Sit With

So, when was the last time you actually:

→ appreciated having a strong, healthy body?

→ thought about the people who love you and choose to spend their time with you?

→ really saw the nature around you, instead of walking past it?

→ recognized that you don't have to worry about food or water today?

It goes on and on…

It's All Perspective

We don't find happiness. We choose it, and we work on it every day. 🧡

Practicing gratitude on the mat is a great place to start. Join us for a class and bring this practice off the mat and into your everyday life.