Aum Unlimited Yoga

17/06/2026

The advanced yoga is beyond the body in your mind and in your life. ✌🏼

In the ‘Yoga Sūtra, Patanjali offers a practice called pratipakṣa-bhāvanā: cultivating the opposite thought.

When the mind moves into a familiar pattern, pratipakṣa-bhāvanā offers a compassionate next step: notice the thought, then cultivate the quality that can meet it.

Instead, it invites a gentle redirection.
Comparison can become contentment.
Criticism can become compassion.
Control can become trust.
Rushing can become presence.
Reactivity can become reflection.

This is one way yoga “inverts” ordinary life. Not by asking us to deny what we feel or force positivity, but by helping us consciously orient the mind toward what frees us.

Try it now:
Notice one pattern that’s been active for you today.
Name it simply.
Then ask: What quality would help turn my mind in another direction?

Let that quality become the practice.
Breathe with it.
Feel where it lands in your body.
Return to it as often as you need.

Save this as a simple practice for the next time your thoughts need a new direction.

Then read Georg Feuerstein’s full article, “Cultivating the Opposite Thought.”
https://yogainternational.com/article/view/cultivating-the-opposite-thought-the-most-challenging-inversion-in-your-pra/

12/06/2026

Practice over time makes the difference

The pose is where the training begins.

Breath under pressure.
Presence in discomfort.
Staying connected to the body when the mind wants to escape.

But the real test isn't on the mat.

It's later.

When life hits.
When stress rises.
When an old reaction reaches for control.

And somehow, there is a little more space than there used to be.

A steadier breath.
A clearer response.
A stronger ability to stay standing inside what you feel.

The pose ends.

The power stays.

24/05/2026

The miraculous world is here to see the amazing you it has created. 🙃

"I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything. But I forgot to see just outside my house a dew-drop on a little blade of grass, a dew-drop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

30/04/2026

Totally valid.

23/04/2026

Can you handle savasana?

"Savasana does not agitate you. It reveals how agitated you already are." -JHL

13/04/2026

Go on I dare you 🤍🌟✌🏼

The permission that no one other than you can grant.