This month in class, we’re working with ‘Dhyana’. Dhyana is the 7th limb of Patanjali’s eight-step yoga system, and is described in the Yoga Sutras as ‘the continuous flow of consciousness towards one object’.

What Patanjali is really describing here is a state of meditation, or total absorption, in the present moment.

In modern yoga especially, we can get quite pose-orientated in our practice (try searching #posegoals on Instagram, for example).

We might be working towards a particular pose or action (touching your toes, anyone?!) – and whilst there isn’t anything wrong with this, what you will learn the more that you practice is this…