The Five Points of Yoga: Return to the Heart of Classical Practice

Do you remember what yoga felt like when it first changed your life? 

For most of us, it wasn’t one practice that did it. It was the totality found within it; the posture, breath, deep rest, simple food, and the quiet moments. Somewhere between teaching schedules and a field full of new approaches, from nervous system protocols to mindset work to plant medicine, it’s easy to keep teaching asana while losing touch with the deeper healing that brought us to this path in the first place.

The Sivananda tradition offers a way back, and it is beautifully simple. Proper exercise, proper breathing, proper relaxation, proper diet, and positive thinking and meditation. These five points are so familiar that they’re easy to overlook. Yet practiced together, they form one complete system that reaches every layer of who we are and serves the original aim of yoga... to reduce suffering.

In this three-part live…