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I benefit from the art of sakshi so much that it
is one of the principles and practices I explain
in my new book, The Yoga Mind: 52 Essen-
tial Principles of Yoga Philosophy to Deepen
Your Practice.
I’m grateful that Eric’s body is still around
to keep me warm and hold me, his mind is still
around to make me laugh, and his intellect is
around to teach me. But, it’s his spirit that I
love and cherish. And his spirit is imperish-
able, immortal, and unchangeable, just like
yours. This experience simply reminded me
that no accident can break that.
Each one of us is here to serve: in good times
and in bad. When you increase your capacity
Rina Jakubowicz is the founder of Rina Yoga. She
teaches at Electric Soul Yoga in Los Angeles and
leads workshops and teacher trainings in English and
Spanish worldwide. She is the author of The Yoga
Mind: 52 Essential Principles of Yoga Philosophy to
Deepen Your Practice. For more information, visit:
rinayoga.com
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PRACTICE SAKSHI:
THE WITNESSOne of the most powerful tools you
can adopt from yoga philosophy is this
tool of becoming a sakshi—a witness.
Our days are spent in reaction to
outside influences, which makes us
deeply involved and attached to our
surroundings. This is exhausting and
stressful. Instead, when you can step
away from a “personal” situation and
observe it from the outside, there is
nothing personal about it. We can then
find resolution and act consciously.
Consider when you are in traffic:
You hate it and react (overreact?)
to everything (that person who just
cut you off, maybe?). But when you
watch traffic from a building, it doesn’t
affect you at all. This is being a witness.
Ideally, you could be in the traffic but
see it as if you were in the building
so it doesn’t affect you. You remove
yourself from the situation emotion-
ally in order to intellectually respond
in the best possible way, so peace and
harmony are cultivated instead of stress
and suffering.Practice reprinted from The Yoga
Mind: 52 Essential Principles of Yoga
Philosophy to Deepen Your Practice.