If you’re ready to apply yoga philosophy to your own life—or teach it with clarity and feeling—my classes and workshops create space to sharpen your thinking, steady your inner life, and connect your practice to what matters now.
Why finding your dharma is harder than it sounds
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Hi Reader, One of the questions I hear most often from yoga practitioners and students is some version of this: “How do I know what my dharma really is?” It sounds like it should be a simple question. But in practice, it rarely is. Part of the difficulty is that we’re usually trying to answer it while standing in the middle of competing pressures. Career expectations, family dynamics, financial realities, and the constant comparison culture of social media all influence how we think about our lives. Over time it becomes harder to tell the difference between what we genuinely value and what we’ve simply absorbed from the world around us. Another challenge is that most modern conversations about purpose tend to focus almost entirely on career. But the yoga wisdom tradition approaches the question of dharma much more holistically. It looks at the alignment between your nature, your values, your responsibilities, and the way you contribute to the world around you. In other words, dharma isn’t just about choosing the right job. It’s about learning how to live in a way that feels right. That’s what the Finding Your Dharma course is all about. Through guided reflection, discussion, and practical exercises over the course of four live sessions together, we look at the classical framework for understanding the many meanings of dharma and how to tie them together in a personally meaningful way. Participants often tell me that the most valuable part of the course is simply having the time and space to think about the questions we explore carefully, in the company of others who’ve been asking similar ones. If this is a topic you’ve been curious about, you can learn more about the course and enroll here: https://hari-kirtana.com/finding-your-dharma/ The early registration rate of $147 (regular price $197) is available through April 4. Wishing you all good fortune, - Hari-k P.S. If you’re considering the course but aren’t sure whether it would be helpful for your situation, feel free to reply and let me know what you’re wondering about. |
Hari-kirtana das
If you’re ready to apply yoga philosophy to your own life—or teach it with clarity and feeling—my classes and workshops create space to sharpen your thinking, steady your inner life, and connect your practice to what matters now.
Hi Reader, Enrollment is now open for Finding Your Dharma, a live online course designed to help you explore one of life’s most important questions: What kind of life am I actually meant to live? In the yoga wisdom tradition, this question is explored through the idea of dharma—the alignment between your natural talents, your values, and the way you contribute to the world. When that alignment is missing, life can start to feel slightly off track. You may notice that: • you feel boxed into...
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