soul health
bhuti was born to be an antidote to the modern western lifestyle, a place to breathe, heal and reduce stress.
When I was training as a Yoga Therapist in 2015, we learnt about the link between the modern western lifestyle and the biggest causes of death such as heart disease and cancer. Constant high levels of stress trigger and amplify our addictions, making us slaves to poor lifestyle choice that cause ill health and also the increase in fucntional illnesses (unexplainable) such as chronic pain, fibromalygia and so on, which interestingly were 65% more prevalent in women than men.
So over the last 10 years we have built a business offering the healthiest food, a plant based cafe, a plethora of yoga classes, and other offerings to help people reduce and manage stress, and look after their phsycial body- which as we know correlates with our mental body.
BUT there seems to be something missing?
Yoga is ultimately a psycospiritual practice but despite the fact that we as students and teachers can spend good time on a mat, or in a circle, at a retreat - still often return to feeling like something's missing. Still left feeling off kilter, easily toppled by life, not deeply self-loving.
There is more awareness through neuroscience etc of how are brains are wired and programmed in our early years and that despite 'work' on ourselves, breaking this unconscious patterning can seem impossible as despite how far we journey on this path we can find ourselves rebounding to our default patterning time and time again.
Is it time to simplfiy? To actually do less 'wellbeing' to get more still. Ultimately all the healthy food and physical practices, can not reach the deepest part of ourselves our innermost layer, our, in yoga terms 'ananda maya kosha': our bliss body or what we love to call JOY.
This is the ultimate- to be so intact physically mentally, and aligned with our higher self, that we feel JOY no matter what, truly, and on all levels.
So we are redefining our mission at bhuti- inspired by the yoga koshas.
The yoga koshas are our layers or 'sheaths' that the practice effects part of yoga philosophy as expounded in various texts including the yoga sutras by Patanjali.
Annamaya: The physical, made up of bones, muscles, organs and matter.
Manomaya: The mental, which includes thoughts, emotions and the five senses.
Pranamaya: The vital energy, which includes breath and life force.
Vijnanamaya: The intellect.
Anandamaya: Our bliss body, which is the finest and thinnest veil covering the soul.
This inspired us to review our intention and distill the essence of what we offer in order to be more clear and deeply serve our community.
The essence of bhuti wellbeing lives through the:
Body - Rejuvenate through our yoga/movment classes, transformative treatments and nourishing food.
Mind - Master your mind through meditation and mindfulness.
Energy - Realign with practices like yoga, sound healing, reiki and more.
Heart - Feel supported and uplifted through community connection, singing and shared experiences.
Ultimately to connect with our SOUL- that is JOY
This is soul health. The soul can be described as the energy that is beyond our phsycial body in which we incarnate, a higher self, that energy we connect with when we are in LOVE when we are feeling boundless JOY, when we are in nature, when we are living according to our purpose.
This is the missing peice we believe and sometimes the wellbeing journey can miss the turning for the SOUL all together and we end up on another highway missing what was underneath our nose all the time.
Let go, liberate yourself, connection with your soul and JOY is available to you in this moment right now as you pause, breathe and release attachment to anything that is not.
Time to do less and be more.
With love,
sama
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