yoga of attention
Yoga of Attention is a practice-centered space rooted in the understanding that yoga is not something we perform, but something we live. It is a way of learning how to place attention through the body, breath, mind, and daily life, so that practice extends beyond the mat and into how we relate, choose, and move through the world.
This work is grounded in the classical foundations of yoga while remaining deeply practical and relevant to modern life.
Yoga offers practices that help us slow down, sense more clearly, and meet ourselves as whole beings rather than problems to be fixed. These practices help you meet yourself honestly, so life itself becomes the practice.
Practice here is a way of returning through attention, breath, and daily life.
Purpose & Orientation Before Practice
Before yoga is something we do, it is something that clarifies how we see. This piece introduces sankalpa as purpose and orientation, why understanding the aim of practice must come before technique.
Sankalpa: What is Intention in Yoga
An introduction to sankalpa and why orientation must come before technique in yoga. Clarifying purpose, attention, and the inward path described by Patañjali.
Sankalpa: Clarifying Purpose (Not Setting a Goal)
Sankalpa is not a goal or personal preference. It is orientation. The steady remembrance of why one practices and what yoga is meant to resolve.
A Note on the Word Sankalpa
Sankalpa is more than intention. This reflection explores its Sanskrit roots and how meaning in yoga unfolds through relationship, context, and practice.
Samādhi Pāda: Orientation to the Aim
An introduction to Samādhi Pāda, outlining the aim of yoga as clarity of awareness and freedom from identification with the movements of the mind.
Sādhana Pāda: The Discipline of Practice
An introduction to Sādhana Pāda, exploring discipline, kriyā yoga, and why ethical clarity and purification are foundational to yoga practice.
Vibhūti Pada: On Results, Discernment, & Restraint
An introduction to Vibhūti Pāda, examining yogic capacities as natural outcomes of practice, and why humility and restraint are essential.
Kaivalya Pāda: Liberation is What Remains
An introduction to Kaivalya Pāda, describing liberation as clarity and non-attachment rather than escape, transcendence, or attainment.
A Note on Liberation and Responsibility
Liberation does not absolve responsibility. This reflection explores kaivalya as integration, where clarity deepens ethical discernment and the need for identity falls away.