Vichara Inspiration (2026)

04/05/2025

Oh oh oh it’s happening!! The preorder is now LIVE! 🧡 This book has been a long time coming! These poems, koans of sorts, have been lifelines for contemplation and introspection. May they serve you too!

At The Entrance Of The Cave will be printed and shipped in June 2025. By participating in the preorder, you are helping me bring this book out into the world!!

Can’t wait to hear how these contemplations resonate with you! 🧡 A few words about the book from two dear sisters:

“Offering an invitation to your inner sanctuary, this collection of poems invites you to trust in the unfolding stillness of your own deepening companionship.” —Elena Brower, bestselling author of Practice You, Being You and Softening Time

“Generous. Spacious. Grounding. Nourishing. Every page an invitation. Every word a chance to see the world and the self more clearly. Hansa Devi steeps us in paradox and mystery—the universe pulsing in a handful of words. At The Entrance Of The Cave is a luminous celebration of being.” —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path

To get your copy, please follow this link 🧡🙏
https://www.vicharainspiration.com/new-release

The completion of this book has brought with it an enormous surge of creativity and inspiration for the second book which is well under way - so stay tuned for more!

Thank you for sharing this wild and beautiful journey with me. With love 🧡 Hansa

17/02/2024

BOOK STORE
We have partnered with Bookshop.org ✨

As you may know, I’m crazy about books. I’ve always envisioned having a book store or library filled with my favorites. With this in mind, I’m excited to share that I’ve become an affiliate with the AMAZING online platform called bookshop.org

Every time you buy a book through the “VICHARA bookshop portal”, you support global brick-and-mortar bookstores (who are all trying to survive Amazon) + you are supporting the VICHARA initiative and all the stuff that is to be birthed through this initiative.

GETTING TO THE PORTAL
Use the link in bio ✨ or use the BOOK tab on the VICHARA website (www.vicharainspiration.com)

BOOKS ON THE PORTAL
Explore our lists + search ANY title in the search bar via our bookshop portal.

OTHER FEATURES
Gift cards to use via our VICHARA bookshop portal are also available.

THE VICHARA BOOKSHOP PORTAL
Please bookmark this page and use it whenever you buy books.

I have shortlisted many favorites, yet most of the stuff I read is not currently in their system (as it’s a bit more esoteric) but we’re working on getting those hundreds of titles to their platform. So, this is just the beginning...

For full transparency, we get 10% of every purchase, so please know that your book purchases have ripple effects that are impactful for our continuous work.

Wishing you lots of inspirational reading!

Love / Hansa

22/01/2024

Simple joys. So much gratitude. Nothing taken for granted. Appreciating the daily golden nuggets hidden within the lessons of life. om

23/11/2023

FOCUS
What do you choose to focus on? What aperture is operating your perception of experience? Where does your eye fall? What are the senses drawn to? What does the mind perceive? What does your heart resonate with? All of these are legit questions. In each moment, we are invited to stay as the witness.

Notice that we’re not zooming in on the content of the experience. This is where we get sucked in and often trapped. There will always be different flavors and associations, good and bad, happy and sad, tied to it. What’s of interest is experiencing. Feeling. Sensing. Not what, but how. Not what, but why. It’s not about what we’re experiencing, but simply that it’s happening.

We train the mind to turn inward, away from distractions, untangling it from being caught in the content of creation. Once inward facing and over time, concentration becomes one-pointed focus. This single focus serves us as it can turn in either direction finding the underlying stillness amidst the plethora of name and form. But without the focus, it’s easy to get lost. So we turn inward first, lessen the distraction in order to get rooted in the seeing. Thus we change the aperture, at different stages for different reasons, in order to see that it’s all the same. It’s a funny paradox. But it helps to speak about it in this way.

At some point, we are invited to give up the effort of holding a focus and instead rest back into awareness, which is all inclusive rather than selective.

Once we have let the questions ruminate and we have been exploring at depth, we give it all up. No more effort. No more doing. We simply witness - and trust that our gaze will fall where it is supposed to, that our senses are permitted with divine intelligence, that our mind is a fractal and function of awareness, and so on.

It all becomes clear and flows effortlessly, as we tap into the current of being rather than strive to affect the perception by doing.

Seated as unbroken awareness we see that there is nothing that this moment is not.

om

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Excerpt from MANTRAS OF THIS LIFE by Hansa Devi [book coming soon]

26/03/2023

We often project our focus to the distant moment, where we assume the being to have changed. The change of name and form can never alter the essence of that which we already are. The lessons learned at the heart of the wish of becoming, is the true gold of the treasure chest of inquiry. The golden nugget is to be here now.

28/06/2022

“To the extent which you give freedom to others to be what they are, to that extent you are free.” -Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Repost from our dear sister 🧡 words of truth in crazy times 🧡

Picture from our Advaita Vedanta retreat with Radhaji in Del Norte, Colorado, 2015

“Shri Radhaji, Dr Carol Whitfield, Vedanta Teacher and Sanskrit Scholar, Teacher at the CIIS University in San Fransisco as well as an accomplished therapist and PhD in psychology. She studied with Swami Dayanandaji since the 1970s and was for many years the manager of one of his ashrams. Both of them (Radhaji & Swamiji) have the rare combination of understanding both the Eastern teachings as well as psychology and the needs of a modern mind and the Western mind.” - words by

07/06/2022

"It may be asked why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily the One is all of them. In that state there is no 'why'. Quarrels and disputes exist merely on the way. With whom is one to quarrel? Only while still on the way it is possible to have disputes and differences of opinion."

~ Anandamayi Ma

14/03/2022

UPCOMING EVENTS
Join us for a 3-part workshop series on the topics of mantra + mala + meditation ✨

Virtual Event - Sundays March 20, March 27, April 3 (10-11:30am MST)

This series is a collaboration with and .gate

OVERVIEW
This series is intended for beginners and advanced practitioners alike, as it serves as an injection of inspiration, helps us attune to presence, refines our perception of what is, and supports us to dive deeper into silence and the mystery of life.

Over the course of the three weeks, we will journey from external expression of mantra to silent repetition (japa to ajapa-japa) and explore the different benefits and nuances of both. We will start each session with a talk about the theory around, and the esoteric meaning behind, the topics of the week, after which we’ll spend time chanting the mantra. It will be a beautiful combo of theory and practice.

You can sign up for each class separately or as a bundle. We highly recommend committing to the full journey as each session will build upon the previous one. Each session is 90 min and will be recorded for those who cannot join live. However, since we nurture each other with presence, we encourage you to join us live.

We will share more info about each upcoming session as we go. In the meantime, FOR MORE INFO + REGISTRATION link in bio!

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16/02/2022

Hello fellow wanderers… Tonight’s Ashtanga yoga class will be a guided meditation + Reignite Your Practice talk, instead of a postural yoga class. You don’t have to be into Ashtanga yoga to join this session.

Join in person @ the Old Firehouse in Ridgway, CO or via Zoom. Donation based. All welcome!

5:30-7pm MST
Zoom info linked in bio

The session will be recorded for those of you who can’t attend live.

See you tonight!

09/02/2022

Tonight’s session in our Study of Self immersion was all about Silence. This is a topic very close to home, as the most profound teacher and teaching is That :: Silence :: Stillness :: Presence

We’re in awe of the brave ones who’ve embarked on the journey of this 3 month Study of Self immersion. It’s because of showing up for/with/as ourselves that we find that which we are seeking :: that which is always with us :: that which moves through us :: that which we are.

Grateful to share this magical and mystical journey with the guiding light of Jyotiji

Om

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30/01/2022

ASHTANGA YOGA info
We are thrilled at the response to start Ashtanga back up! This post is to clarify details. We DO have limited space, so come early to snag a spot. If you are planning on coming, please read ALL of the below + info on the website.

Mond & Thurs 8-10am MST
Wedn & Frid 5:30-7:30pm MST

MYSORE STYLE
Self-practice with individualized supervision and guidance. Everyone works at their own pace and at their prescribed version of the Primary Series (Yoga Chikitsa; Yoga Therapy). Your practice is as short or long as is appropriate for you. We all share the space and show up for our own deep dive into presence with ourselves. Do not compare yourself to your neighbor, or previous versions of yourself.

DURATION
Do I have to practice for 2 full hours? No. You can show up whenever you want within the 2-hour time slot to do your practice. If you are a beginner, see below.

BEGINNER
Come early to get introduced to the Ashtanga yoga system and for us to build your practice over time.

LIMITED SPACE
8-10 spots available. Peeps with memberships/monthly donation have the right of way. Drop-ins are available depending on space.

PRICE
Donation based; membership or drop-in.

ATTITUDE
Together we hold a quiet nurturing space full of reverence. We show up non-competitive (this is not a place where we focus on performance) and eager to connect with body, mind, breath and spirit. We are attentive, receptive, humble and respectful.

RETURNING TO PRACTICE
If you’ve paused your practice, welcome back! Please take this as an opportunity to reset your intention and GO SLOW as you move towards regularity and increased intensity in your practice. Please please please work gradually (over time) and DO NOT compare yourself to what you used to do. Drop any expectations you may have on yourself or the practice, and be fully receptive to what the practice wants to teach you. BE HERE NOW please and thank you.

With that said, we can’t wait to dive back into the beautiful energy of being together.

PLEASE READ THE INFO ON THE WEBSITE BEFORE SHOWING UP - linked in bio ✨

20/01/2022

・・・
May all who come
here in search of Truth,
and whose hearts and minds
beat only to discover the real,
awaken to the full realisation
of the imperishable Self
inside their hearts and
be timelessly happy and content.
Know that the true heart
and the illumined mind are one.
God and Truth are similarly one.
Know and acknowledge this
with your entire being.
Go in peace.
And may all those who meet you
along the way be so touched
and inspired by your light,
your loving kindness and compassion,
your wisdom and silent presence,
that they are compelled to search
within themselves to discover that
which they see in you,
and so find everlasting freedom.
For blessed is the one
whose life is the evidence of Truth.
May the power of Truth prevail
in all its glory and perfection
in the hearts of those
who love and honour
the Supreme Being.
This is my heart’s blessing for you,
that you will always recognise
the ever-present Grace
that is your heart’s divine activity.
And may your presence be
a true introduction to the face,
light and love of the living God.

Amen Om

~ Mooji

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