Yoga & Consciousness by Paulus Yoga, Playas del Coco, Sardinal (2025)

28/07/2025

The Scholar-Mystic's Razor

Tonight, as I sit with this well-worn copy of Shankara's commentaries, I'm reminded why jnana yoga remains the most misunderstood of all spiritual paths. Western seekers often mistake it for mere philosophy - another conceptual prison for the seeking mind.

But true jnana is the anti-philosophy. It's the systematic dismantling of every belief, every assumption, every comfortable spiritual identity we've constructed. The great sage Ramana called it "killing the mind with the mind" - using thought's own penetrating clarity to transcend thought itself.

This isn't New Age wishful thinking or feel-good spirituality. It's the most ruthless form of self-inquiry imaginable: the relentless questioning that leads you home to what you've always been beneath the layers of conditioning and cultural programming.

In our time of spiritual marketplace confusion, jnana yoga offers something radical: the recognition that you are not the seeker, not the practitioner, not even the one who becomes enlightened. You are the unchanging awareness in which all seeking appears and disappears.

The book in hand becomes the pointer. The teacher dissolves into teaching. The path reveals itself as pathless.

What remains when everything falls away? This is jnana's eternal question - and its timeless answer.

Have you ever glimpsed the one who witnesses all your seeking?

08/07/2025

THE EGO BUILDS WALLS, THE SOUL OPENS GATES

What happens when your ego has done its job perfectly, yet something still feels missing?

The ego creates boundaries—your "I," your identity, your safe space. Essential work. But only the soul allows us to experience meaning.

🔹 Ego: "Here I am, there you are"
🔹 Soul: "Perhaps we are one"

We live in a culture that barely recognizes the soul. We experience it mostly "between the cracks"—crisis, loss, transition.

Liminal moments when the soul calls:
- Life transitions and thresholds
- Midlife questioning
- Confronting mortality
- Deep love and loss

Ancient cultures had rituals for these passages. We have therapy and antidepressants.
"In the shadow lie not only demons, but also golden potential." —Jung knew this. We live it.

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23/06/2025

🔥 Ever heard of the philosopher who escaped death 4 times and predicted our current crisis?

Meet Jean Gebser (1905-1973) ✨

This man had one of the most dramatic lives among 20th century thinkers:
🚂 1931 - Fled N**i Germany (before most saw the danger!)
💥 1936 - Survived Spanish Civil War bombings
🎨 1940s - Became friends with Pablo Picasso & Einstein
🏔️ 1940 - Dramatic escape to Switzerland
Instead of breaking him, these experiences led to a revolutionary discovery... 🤯

Gebser identified 5 structures of human consciousness:
1️⃣ Archaic - original unity, deep sleep
2️⃣ Magical - vital energy, connection to nature
3️⃣ Mythical - symbols, archetypes, storytelling
4️⃣ Mental - rationality, analysis, science
5️⃣ Integral - synthesis of ALL levels

Here's the mind-blowing part: 🌟
According to Gebser, we're RIGHT NOW transitioning from mental to integral consciousness.

What we perceive as "civilizational crisis" is actually the birth pains of a new level of human awareness 🦋
This explains SO much:

Why technology doesn't make us happier
Why people seek meaning beyond material success
Why old institutions are losing credibility
Why we crave both science AND spirituality

Current chaos isn't the end - it's evolution! 🚀
Gebser wrote this analysis in 1940 while literally escaping death. His friends Picasso and Einstein recognized his genius.

Today, his work is more relevant than ever ⚡
Have you noticed different levels of consciousness in your own life?
Which structure resonates most with you right now? 💭

06/06/2025

🚗 Are you just polishing the hood or do you care for the engine too?

Doing yoga only as asanas is like listening to the radio in a parked car.

You have the keys in your hand, but you're not driving...

Yoga isn't gymnastics of the body. It's a very practical tool for finding yourself beneath the masks you hide behind because of family, society, the world. Real yoga begins where the body ends and awareness, emotions, love, joy, meaning and consciousness begin.

You can have a beautiful form on Instagram, the flexibility of a snake and the strength of a lion, but if you don't give the same care to what's inside, you're just beautiful fools and sad people without purpose in life.

Yoga is much more than what they teach in fancy yoga studios. Your body is a temple, but you are the one who dwells within it.

So finally turn off that radio that's just distracting you, start the engine and set off on an adventurous journey.

29/05/2025

Psychology of Midlife Crisis

What if your midlife crisis wasn’t a failure…
but a sign that something deeper is trying to awaken?

For many, midlife brings restlessness, doubt, or an unexpected sense of loss.
Not because life went wrong — but because a new part of the self wants to emerge.

In Jungian psychology, this isn’t a collapse.
It’s the beginning of the second act — the journey from achievement to authenticity.

You may feel:
🔹 disoriented in roles you once mastered
🔹 emotionally overwhelmed without clear reason
🔹 or deeply drawn to questions like “Who am I really?”

This phase can be a turning point — if we’re willing to listen.

🔗 Read the full reflection on the psychology of midlife crisis here:
https://en.paulus.yoga/blog/the-psychology-of-midlife-crisis

20/05/2025

What is yoga?

https://en.paulus.yoga/vedas-yoga

The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, which means to unite, unify or bring into harmony. Yoga, then, literally means unification - of body, mind, breath and consciousness, as well as connecting one to the deeper essence of existence. At its core, yoga is not just a physical exercise, but a comprehensive system of personal and spiritual development rooted in Indian philosophy and the Vedic tradition thousands of years old.

Yoga encompasses not only asanas (body postures) but also pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation, ethical principles, concentration and life energy work (prāṇa). The aim is to calm the mind, harmonize the nervous system, self-knowledge and ultimately achieve inner freedom (moksha). Yoga leads one to wholeness, balance and a deeper conscious being - not only on the mat, but especially in everyday life.

11/05/2025

✨ Most people live only 1% of their potential. Yoga awakens the other 99%.

We weren’t born to merely survive.
We were born to wake up — to remember who we are, what we carry, and what’s truly possible when mind, body and spirit unite.
This is not about touching your toes.
It’s about touching your truth.

🧘 Discover how yoga can become a path of inner power, clarity, and deep transformation.
Start living fully. The other 99% is waiting.

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08/05/2025

🧘‍♂️ What is meditation – really?
It’s not about silencing the mind.
It’s not about feeling good.
It’s not even about escaping the world.

Meditation is a structured and intelligent path that helps you stabilize your mind, expand your awareness, and return to your essence.

It is the art of learning how to be fully present — in your body, in your breath, in your life.
Not to transcend your humanity, but to embody it deeply.

In an age of distraction, meditation is a radical act of attention.
In an age of speed, it is a return to stillness.

🌀 Through traditional techniques, we can rewire our perception, reconnect with our soul, and open the inner door to insight, clarity, and joy.

💡 Meditation is not something you “achieve.” It’s something you remember — because the silence is already inside you.

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22/04/2025

"You can't heal what you don't allow yourself to feel."

In a world where pain is often masked by smiles, allowing yourself to feel is a radical act of courage.
You can’t transform what you keep hidden.
The body remembers. The heart knows. The soul waits for you to listen.

🔸 In our Integral Path, we combine the wisdom of yoga, psychology, and deep awareness.
🔸 Healing begins when you dare to feel your truth.

18/04/2025

Creativity and Illness: Thyroid & Reproductive Health

Your body speaks the language of the soul.
And some areas speak louder—especially when they’ve been ignored for too long.

There’s a deep mirroring between the reproductive system (pelvis, sexual organs, lower back) and the audiovocal system (throat, voice, thyroid, mouth).
One expresses the desire to feel, to connect, to experience.
The other expresses the urge to create, to speak, to leave a mark.

This energetic axis – from svādhiṣṭhāna to viśuddha – is not just a yogic idea.

🔹 Chinese medicine sees a link between kidneys (vitality, sexuality) and lungs (expression of spirit).
🔹 Ayurveda sees the pelvis as the seat of karma, transformed through the fire of awareness in the mouth and throat.
🔹 Jungian psychology views the voice and creativity as the soul’s attempt to be born into the world. When this is repressed, it builds in the unconscious—often in the body.

Today, even science acknowledges:
🧠 The body and psyche are not separate.

Neuroendocrinology, epigenetics, psychosomatics, trauma studies—they all show how frustration, meaninglessness, and lack of creativity affect hormones, immunity, and even gene expression.

🔻 Harsh truth of modern life?
Chronic inflammation in reproductive organs

Lower back pain

Loss of libido

Thyroid disorders

Voice issues & burnout

These are not just “illnesses”.
They are embodied stories of unfulfillment.

We live in a system that:

silences meaning,

suppresses creativity,

splits desire from voice, body from soul.

When we don’t live the truth of our soul, the body will start carrying it for us.

🌿 True healing begins when:
we stop silencing our pain and start asking what it’s trying to say,

we stop reducing sexuality to instinct and reclaim it as a creative force,

we stop using the voice to conform and start using it to speak truth.

🌀 Illness is not a failure. It’s a message.
Desire is not sin. It’s a path.
And disease is not the end – it’s a call to return home to yourself.

07/04/2025

“Your trauma is not your identity. It’s your initiation.”
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Your trauma didn’t break you. It cracked you open.
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What hurt you wasn’t meant to define you — but to awaken you.
To lead you back to yourself. To truth. To healing.
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On the integrative path, we don’t bypass pain — we work with it.
We alchemize it into power.
We stop being victims of the past and become creators of the now.
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💬 If this speaks to you, share it. Someone might need to hear that their pain has a purpose.

31/03/2025

Not every truth can be told.
Some experiences go beyond words.
A moment of stillness.
A sense of being deeply home.
A vast presence.
A collapse of boundaries.
A silent knowing.

And yet — every culture gives it a different name.
God. Energy. Emptiness. The Big Bang. Light. Love.
No words can fully capture it. And that’s okay.
Because these experiences aren’t meant to be explained — they’re meant to be lived.

This is why the path must be personal.
Why yoga is not a belief, but a direct experience.
And why your truth may look different from mine — and still be real.

✨ Have you ever touched something you couldn’t explain?
Let me know in the comments. Your words might help someone else feel less alone.

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