This is an 8-part series of 5-minute practices inspired by the 8-limbs of yoga and offers something for everyone with an option to try something new outside of what modern life wants you to think yoga is.
To honour International Yoga Day, I’m sharing “The Path Within”, a FREE 8-part video series. Each practice is just 5 minutes. Each one inspired by one of the eight limbs.
Practice 7: Dhyana
Dhyana is the seventh limb of yoga — the space that opens after we’ve learned to focus. It’s often described as meditation, but it’s not something you “do.” It’s something you become.
If Dharana is concentration, Dhyana is absorption. It’s the quiet that comes when effort fades, when you’re not chasing the moment or resisting it. In neuroscience, this correlates with brain states linked to self-awareness and emotional regulation — but you don’t need science to feel the peace of simply being.
Dhyana is where the breath slows, the thoughts soften, and you remember what it feels like to be held — not by answers, but by awareness.
This practice invites you to sit in stillness, not with a goal, but with curiosity. Not to empty the mind, but to listen beneath it
Skip to 1 Minute 20 Seconds, to begin the practice
To integrate:
Dhyana is not about escaping your thoughts, it’s about creating space around them. When you practise resting in awareness, you begin to trust stillness, rather than fear it.
To integrate:
Take one quiet pause today: no phone, no music, just breath and being.
Use the phrase “And now, I return” anytime your mind runs ahead of you.
Begin or end your day with 2 minutes of sitting, doing nothing — just being present to whatever arises.
Stillness doesn’t have to be long to be profound. What if rest wasn’t something to earn, but something you allowed?
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