25. June 2026

Cultivating the four foundations into your yoga practice and routine.

Embodying these four pillars is not a rigid discipline; it is a gentle, daily return to love and awareness. Here is how we tend to these roots together:

• Body (Rupa): become aware of your body in all its constituent parts. This is where meditation integrated fully with yoga practice comes into its own. Sit comfortably on a chair, cross-legged or astride a cushion and block. Gently close your eyes or have a soft gaze, this allows you to shut the external world away and bring your focus inwards. Perform a gentle body scanning starting from the top (crown of your head) or from the bottom (your feet). Become aware of the crown of your head, then gently move your focus downwards towards your forehead, the point between your eyebrows, your eyebrows, eyes and back of the eyes, gently moving down towards your nose, your cheeks, lips, chin. Continue moving your awareness down towards neck/shoulders and so on..
• Feelings (Vedana): as you continue to breath, notice any feelings of comfort or discomfort with loving-kindness (an itch, pain, tingle etc). It is in this phase that the four foundations really start to come to fruition. Notice and let go knowing that feelings are impermanent, passing, and have no substance of their own, but they are purely an interpretation of the mind.
• Mind (citta): as we funnel in further and further, we notice thoughts passing like clouds in the sky. We observe them with detached awareness and let them go, knowing that these are also impermanent and subject to change.
• Truths (Dhammas): as we finally enter deeper levels of consciousness, we funnel into what we call one-pointed concentration, a state of consciousness where we can truly become aware of reality as being impermanent, subject to suffering (Dukkha) and Not-Self (devoid of any permanent substance).

Step into the sanctuary of the present moment. If you are seeking a more spiritually aligned approach that goes beyond a stretching class, book your free introductory class on my website for a different approach to yoga, life, mindfulness and a journey into spirituality. Book