Bringing Ancient Wisdom to Modern Life by Creating Daily Rituals
I loved this conversation with Kori Hahn. It was a true pleasure to dive into the ancient practice of yoga from a holistic perspective! She has a book out which dives into the ancient and modern day practices of yoga for the modern mind seeking more understanding, self-study and compassion for the human condition. Rituals of the Soul: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern and Meaningful Life by Kori Hahn

Is your life a wild exploration, or does it feel mundane and lack excitement? Is the life you are living based on logical reason and society’s expectations, or are you doing exactly what makes your heart beat a little faster with passion and enthusiasm? If you listened more intently to what your heart wants, what would you be doing? What are your dreams, and why aren’t you living them at the moment?

These are the questions that author Kori Hahn poses in the introduction to Rituals of the Soul: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern and Meaningful Life (New World Library, October 5, 2021). She dedicates the rest of the book to showing readers how the eight ancient steps of yoga can help them answer them.

What We Talk About

Learn about Sanskrit and what the Yogic terms are that we use to talk about Yoga from ancient to modern times

What are the Yamas and Niyamas

How do you practice the 8 limbs of Yoga in a modern day context

Why do we practice yoga and what is the actual goal

What does Yoga Asana actually mean

How to move Yoga beyond the mat, what does it mean to live your practice on and off the mat, "Outside of the Studio"

If you have ever wanted to learn more about Yoga, Sanskrit, Ashtanga or the 8 Limbs of Yoga - then this episode is for YOU! Rituals for the Soul empowers readers to create a customized yoga prescription that will help them hear and start acting on their intuition. The eight-step strategy Kori offers is based on the teachings of the world’s greatest (and oldest) yogis in an ancient text called the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, which can be challenging to understand in its original form. So Kori offers her own interpretations and real-life examples from her life as a yogi, bohemian, surfer, and mama to make each of the eight principles easier to integrate into modern life.

While yoga is often seen as a form of exercise or meditation, Rituals of the Soul offers an easy-to-digest understanding of the deeper, fundamental principles of yoga. Kori offers readers new ways of using tools like meditation and breath work, affirmations, visualizations, and journaling to cultivate more spaciousness, presence, awareness, worthiness, and heightened focus in their daily lives. In fact, readers can use the formula explained in the book every day without ever setting foot on a yoga mat.