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 8: Samadhi
Samadhi is the eighth and final limb of yoga, and it holds all the others within it. It’s not something separate. It’s what naturally emerges when you’ve lived your way into the rest:
When your actions align with values (Yama), your inner world is tended to (Niyama), your body feels like home (Asana), your breath is steady (Pranayama), your senses soften (Pratyahara), your mind can focus (Dharana), and your awareness rests without force (Dhyana), then Samadhi arises.
It’s not a mystical achievement. It’s a grounded, neurological shift. In terms of modern life, Samadhi is a state where your nervous system is regulated, your attention is present, and your sense of self is no longer fragmented. It’s coherence, the body, mind, and breath functioning in rhythm rather than reaction.
Neuroscience shows that when we’re in this state — calm but alert, not grasping or fleeing… we’re able to access deeper clarity, compassion, and creativity. Samadhi isn’t something reserved for monks or mountaintops. It’s available to anyone, in any moment, when we pause and remember: there is nothing missing.
It’s not a big spiritual event. It’s not transcendence. It’s a quiet remembering, that you are already whole, and have always been.
Samadhi is a state of presence where nothing is missing. You’re not trying to become. You’re simply letting yourself be.
This practice isn’t about stillness or silence. It’s about noticing. even in the noise, that your wholeness is here, now.
Skip to 2 Minutes, 8 Seconds to begin the practice
To integrate:
Samadhi invites us to stop chasing and start noticing. You don’t have to be silent or serene to feel whole, you just need to be with yourself, fully.
Here’s how you might live into this:
The next time you’re washing the dishes, feel your feet on the floor. Let that be enough.
When you’re in conversation, practise full presence. Listen without needing to respond perfectly.
If something goes wrong today, a plan shifts, a moment feels messy, pause and say: “I’m still whole.”
This is how you integrate Samadhi. Not by waiting for a peak experience, but by returning, again and again, to the part of you that was never missing.
Even when you’re tired. Even when life feels noisy. Even in the middle of a busy day, you can remember.
Wholeness isn’t a destination. It’s how you walk through your life, one moment at a time.
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