2024: Live Your Yoga

A 12-month journey through yogic philosophy to enhance your practice, reintegrate yourSelf, and live your yoga.

Seasons Greetings!

This is a little earlier than expected, but it came to me (it’s amazing what happens when we get quiet) and I want to share it with you.

Carrying on with the same concept and format that you can expect from The Yoga Letters (TYL), but with a fresh focus for each month, I invite you to join me on a unique year-long journey through the ancient teachings of yoga philosophy, to enhance your own practice and reintegrate yourSelf (who you truly are), so that you can more fully live your yoga.

Because yoga isn’t just about what we are doing.

It’s about how we do things.

And, even when we’re not ‘doing’ anything - not moving a single muscle - we can still practice yoga.

In this sense, yoga is about our being-ness.

Why do this?

By connecting (or reconnecting) with the philosophy of yoga, you will be empowered to connect with your practice on a more meaningful level. 

The world, now more than ever, needs people to be in touch with who they are and with what is most important, and yoga can help us to remember these things.

“True yoga is not about the shape of your body,
but the shape of your life.
Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived.
Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been;
yoga cares about the person you are becoming.
Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose,
and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.”

~Aadil Palkhivala, Fire of Love

How will we do this?

Together we shall experience yoga through many of its practices, such as: asana, pranayama, mantra, and self-study, all with consideration of The Yoga Sutras, as an attempt to better understand ourselves in relation to this ancient wisdom.

Each month we will focus on a particular area of yogic philosophy and, by having lessons spread out over a whole year, we are actively creating the time and space for ourSelves to more fully reflect on the teachings.

Allowing for the careful consideration of how yoga can be effectively integrated into our own individual lives.

Now I cannot mislead you and say that we will get everything covered.

These topics are vast and expansive - which makes them incredibly interesting - but I aim to give you more than just an overview and I hope it will enable you to delve deeper on your own terms.

I am really looking forward to creating these letters over the coming year. Not least because they involve aspects of my yoga practice that I, myself, need to revisit. Even though I’ve been through it many times before!

And this is why I want to share the journey, so that you, too, can see the process (and know the benefits) of engaging with these concepts, again and again and again - especially when we feel a bit lost - because it is all a part of the magic of following the yoga path.

However that may look for you.

What will it entail?

Over the next year, you can expect the following from me:

• 12 monthly letters: each with a specific focus (and with plenty of real talk).

• A corresponding monthly Spotify playlist.

• Practice guidance with further resources and reading suggestions.

• Journal prompts to deepen and enrich any insights that you may have.

• Plus the invitation to come together to talk about the topics (with the comments section open to everybody), and the freedom to ask me any questions that you may have.

Photo by Saffu on Unsplash

What will we be learning about?

To give you more of an idea of what we will be covering, the topics for the year are as follows (all of which you will be encouraged to think about in relation to yourSelf):

January - Sankalpa & Mantra

February - Introducing Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Eight Limbs of Yoga

March - Yamas

April - Niyamas

May - Asana

June - Pranayama

July - Pratyahara

August - Dharana

September - Dhyana

October - Samadhi

November - The Chakras & Nadis

December - Integrating Your Yoga

What do I need to do?

If you’re already a subscriber (this journey is free to all, by the way), you can relax knowing that from the 1st January 2024, you will receive each issue without having to do anything else.

But I do politely ask you a small favour:

To help me reach as many people as possible, please share this post with others so that they can join us.

By doing so, not only are you helping me to spread the word and to get as many people as possible thinking about yoga, but, also, it means that you may be helping them, too.

Together, let’s start the year with the best intentions!

If you’re new here and want to join in, simply click on the button below and you’ll be good to go.

So, that’s it for now. I will be back in touch on the 1st January 2024.

To finish, I’d like to wish everybody a peaceful close to 2023.

May we all look back with love, and forward with hope.

And, as always, thank-you - from the bottom of my heart and from the top of my soul - for reading my words.

With kindness,

Louisa x

P.S.

As a parting gift, please find here a copy of TYL 2024 planner and journal.

Each month I will still be including individual themed journal pages, but I thought it may be useful to have a space to pre-consider the year as a whole.

Oh, and I recommend listening to this beautifully reflective track: Somewhere In Between