Yoga Sanctuary, LLC

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

Well said! Worth the read…

Many people spend their lives believing contentment will arrive once they lose the weight, build the business, heal the relationship, buy the house, or finally accomplish the next goal.

InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt

Yoga teaches the practice of santosha: contentment.

Not complacency or the absence of ambition, but the ability to experience gratitude for the present moment while still continuing to grow.

There is nothing wrong with discipline, goals, or striving to improve yourself. But when every moment becomes consumed by chasing the next achievement, it becomes difficult to appreciate your life as it exists right now.

Santosha reminds us to value the process as much as the outcome.
To appreciate progress without demanding perfection.
To recognize that peace cannot always depend on external circumstances aligning exactly the way we want them to.

A steady mind is not created by building a perfect life.

It is created by learning how to remain present, grateful, and grounded throughout the ups and downs of the life you already have.

InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt

04/16/2026

Add this to all we’ve learned from Eric Schiffman….

“I become aware that in order to go beyond my present state, a greater concentration is necessary. When I understand this need, a movement takes place of concentration toward what is seeking to come into being in me. In this voluntary movement, my attention becomes active and refined, and the movement passes a threshold where words are no longer necessary, where my ego is pacified and my body is still. Who am I? In a state of questioning without words, I approach a void. I accept putting nothing there, knowing nothing, and am wholly attentive to the silence. I am entirely present to the question "Who ...?" as if it were a magnet attracting all the force of perception. Behind all our life, all our activity, the resonance of this question must be stronger than the insistent call of the movement toward life. "Who ...?" I wish to pe*****te the state before thinking arises. So, I observe from where this thought comes. Gently, very quietly, I pe*****te the state. Absolute tranquillity is necessary.”
~ Jeanne de Salzmann

Art by Hiromi Tango

04/06/2026

This is always GOLD, so I’m reposting:

This is what they call an 'embarrassment of riches.' A growing one, at that. For those who haven't noticed, Erich Schiffmann has created a fresh online offering (on Vimeo, and some now on YouTube) of scores of his talks at classes and workshops. He's been putting them out and sharing on social media in recent weeks, and the collection is like Christmas every day.

If you don't know who Erich is, I'll suggest it's worth your time to get a sense of him through these videos. If you already know Erich, you already KNOW what a phenomenal gift this is. Freely available to all, these teachings are gleaned from his insights from many decades of dedicated practice and authentic inquiry.

For what it's worth, here's how I tried to succinctly describe Erich in something I penned some years back:

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Erich Schiffmann’s discoveries about self-practice have influenced and empowered thousands of yogis teaching and practicing today, culminating in a style he calls Freedom Yoga. This unpretentious teacher has left an enduring mark on a generation of yogis and teachers inspired by his take on making the shift from doing someone else’s yoga to doing your own.

Erich dismisses any notion that the term is proprietary to him. He winces at the idea that anyone might dub it “Schiffmann’s Freedom Yoga.” The term is a shorthand one he fashioned after growing dissatisfied with the elaborate answer he used to give to the “So, what kind of yoga do you teach?” question.

It’s not on Yoga Alliance’s list of choices in the “I Teach ______” menu dropdown. It’s not a flashy or a headline-attracting practice. Most freedom yogis are too occupied enjoying and learning from their practice to talk about it much. It’s an approach that’s made all the difference for me. In part because its specific expression varies so much from one practitioner to the next (that’s the freedom part), and also because its only canon is that ongoing inquiry is paramount (that’s the yoga part).

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Find this generous teacher's online offerings here - and enJOY: https://vimeo.com/erichschiffmann

Erich Schiffmann/Freedom Style Yoga

04/01/2026