20/05/2026
🪶There is an image in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad that I keep returning to. The teaching is shared through the shape of a bird, wings outstretched, head forward, tail behind.
Same form. Different contents.
Not a ladder to climb. Not layers to peel away. A bird. Five times over. Each one nested inside the last. Each one complete in itself.
This is the Pañcamāyā and it quietly overturns the way most of us were taught to think about ourselves. We were taught separation. Body over here, mind over there. Spirit somewhere above it all, waiting to be reached if we just practice hard enough, sit still enough, let go enough.
But the Upaniṣad offers us something different.
Not the goal of leaving the body behind but of recognising that Annamāya, the food body, is temporary and yet already a perfect expression of the whole. That Prāṇamāya, the energy body, animates this same form, carrying something subtler. That Manomāya, the thinking mind, is not the obstacle — it is the wing that catches the wind, allowing us to reflect, think and act. That Vijñānamāya, the wisdom body, is not reserved for the advanced practitioner — it is already present, waiting to be revealed. And that Ānandamāya bliss is not the destination. It is who we are at our core.
It was never absent.
What if the goal of yoga is not to rise above yourself but to recognise your own wholeness?
What if every āsana, every breath, every moment of sitting quietly is not about getting somewhere but about remembering that the bird already knows how to fly?
This is what we will explore together over five weeks.
Not five layers to work through. Five dimensions to inhabit simultaneously, completely, as one integrated whole.
Aham aham — I am, I am, I am.
Join Us — Revealing Your True Nature
🗓 Thursday 28th May — Thursday 26th June
⏰ 7:00pm – 8:15pm AEST / 10:00am – 11:15am BST
📍 Live on Zoom — all sessions recorded
⛓️💥Link https://the-ray-of-light-collection.teachable.com/l/pdp/revealing-your-true-nature-the-pancamaya
