Archives for July 2018

Isha Yoga Ashram Isha Yoga Ashram
Base of the Velliangiri Mountains
Tamil Nadu, India
July 27, 2018

Greetings from the jungles southern India 🙏

Most of humanity can trace its roots to southern India. In fact, anyone with ancestry outside of Africa has ancestry from Southern India. Scientists now say the first migrations of homo sapiens out of Africa traveled across the Arabian Peninsula and settled on the south Indian coast over 50,000 years ago.

Something else also has its roots in India, Yoga. Yoga, the science of achieving the ultimate in human happiness, bliss, and wellbeing, remains the foremost of India’s gifts to humanity. While the Sage Patangali, author of the eternal Yoga Sutras, lived roughly 3,000 years ago and is considered the father of modern yoga, the science of yoga existed long before Patangali graced the world with his concise yet exhaustive user’s manual. In a tradition of unbroken transmission from guru to disciple for untold thousands of years, Yoga has lived on as the very breath of the Divine itself with a living vibrancy generation to generation here in India. Now, we too in the West are to reaping the fruits of these yogis’ tireless labor.