19/10/2026
BHAKTI YOGA — THE YOGA OF DEVOTION
Last week, we explored Karma Yoga, the yoga of action, and the idea that how we do things matters just as much as what we do.
This week, we’re turning towards the heart.
Bhakti Yoga is traditionally understood as the path of devotion: cultivating love, reverence and connection with the divine.
In traditional practice, this might be expressed through prayer, chanting, mantra, song or offerings. But there’s something in the heart of this philosophy that gives us plenty to reflect on, too.
What do we give our love to?
What do we hold sacred?
Where do we direct our attention, our energy and our care?
And how might our lives change if we approached the things that matter to us with a little more wholeheartedness?
Think about the people you love.
The work you care deeply about.
The small acts of kindness nobody sees.
The moments when you show up for someone, not because you have to, but because you genuinely want to.
Bhakti invites us to consider the role of love and devotion in our lives, not simply as feelings we experience, but as something we nurture and express.
Karma asks us how we act.
Bhakti asks us what we love, and what we offer our hearts to.
One speaks to the way we move through the world; the other reminds us that love and devotion can be part of that movement, too.