First Light
How First Light worksTuesday 27 October·
- Sunrise
- 07:55
- Quiet hour
- 06:19–07:07
- Brahma Muhurta
- Moon
- Waning gibbous
- Next full moon: Tue 24 Nov
Autumn
The quiet hour (Brahma Muhurta) is the traditional time for practice, just before sunrise.
स्थिरसुखमासनम्
sthira-sukham āsanam
Posture should be steady and comfortable.
Yoga Sutras 2.46 · verse 97 of 196
Unfolding the thread
This is everything the Sutras say directly about posture: two words. Sthira, steady. Sukha, comfortable, literally "good space." A posture that is both firm and easy. Not a feat of flexibility, but a seat you can rest in.
Try today
Find your seat today and adjust it until it is both steady and easy. Stay there for five breaths.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”
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