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.
बलेषु हस्तिबलादीनि
baleṣu hasti-balādīni
Through saṁyama on strengths comes the strength of an elephant, and so on.
Yoga Sutras 3.25 · verse 131 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Focus deeply on a quality, the text says, and you take it on: the elephant's strength, for example. Behind the image is a truth any athlete or artist knows: we grow into what we give sustained attention to.
Try today
Choose one quality you want (patience, courage, steadiness) and dwell on it for a few minutes today.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.”
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