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June 4, 2024
World Environment Day: Integrating eco-conscious choices in daily life is true dharma
What does it mean to live your spiritual values beyond the yoga mat? This reflection explores how the principles of ahimsa, compassion, and reverence for nature can transform the everyday choices we make about what we eat, wear, buy, and consume.
January 12, 2024
Yoga—a Panacea for All That Ails Our World
What if the crises facing our world—from conflict and loneliness to environmental destruction—share the same root cause? This reflection explores yoga as a path beyond separation, awakening us to the oneness that connects us to one another, the Divine, and the Earth.
March 21, 2021
Let’s Do What is Right, Preserve Water
Water is life, yet the choices we make every day are contributing to its growing scarcity and pollution. Sadhviji explores how what we eat, buy and consume connects directly to the health of our planet—and how ancient spiritual principles of simplicity, nonviolence and conscious living offer a path toward protecting this precious resource.
May 12, 2020
It Took a Virus to Teach us a Simple Lesson
The pandemic brought the world to a standstill—and revealed just how quickly the planet could begin to heal when human activity slowed. Drawing on lessons from India’s lockdown, Sadhviji asks whether we can carry that awakening forward by consuming less, living more simply, protecting the natural world and remembering our fundamental interconnectedness.
October 19, 2019
Combat Climate Change 3 Times a Day
What if one of the most powerful ways to fight climate change happens three times a day? Sadhviji explores the environmental impact of what we eat and why choosing a plant-based diet can bring our everyday actions into alignment with our spiritual values.
June 15, 2017
Yoga and the Yoga Sutras
Yoga is far more than what happens on the mat. Through Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Sadhviji explores yoga as a discipline for how we live—from nonviolence and non-attachment to examining our relationship with scarcity, consumption and desire—and how these practices ultimately lead us toward true union and inner freedom.
February 27, 2015
Know Yoga, Know Peace
Yoga offers far more than physical strength, flexibility or even a calmer mind. Drawing on Patanjali’s eight limbs, Sadhviji explores how the full practice of yoga—from nonviolence and nonattachment to meditation and surrender—can transform not only how we feel on the mat, but how we live, relate and move through the world.
June 8, 2013
Overwhelmed By Ma Ganga
Writing in the aftermath of the devastating Uttarakhand floods, Sadhviji reflects on the awe-inspiring power of Mother Ganga and the consequences of treating nature as something humanity can control, exploit, and commodify. She calls for a different vision of progress—one rooted in reverence for nature, restraint rather than unchecked consumerism, and the recognition that spirituality must shape how we build, develop, and live upon the Earth.