Most of today’s Yoga-studio Yoga philosophically stems from Patangali’s Yoga as described in “The Yoga Sutras” in which the body is viewed as an obstacle to transcend. The same goes for most schools of Buddhism, Christianity, Advaita Vedanta, and contemporary non-duality lineages. Believing the body as sinful or is an obstacle is not only spiritually problematic, it is also disease promoting. In contrast, the mid-first millennium CE Hindu and Buddhist Tantriks viewed the body as a temple. In fact, that is where the term “the body is a temple” likely originated, and their understanding of the chakra system along with kundalini energy enabled them to unlock powerful Siddhis. Sanskrit: सिद्धि, are extraordinary, supernatural, or magical powers/abilities attained through advanced yogic practices, meditation, and spiritual discipline, representing spiritual accomplishments or perfections, often described in Hinduism and Buddhism as "yogic superpowers." In Relationship Yoga, your body and its conditions are the path itself.

Most of today’s ‘Yoga-studio Yoga’ philosophically stems from Patangali’s Yoga as described in “The Yoga Sutras” in which the ego is viewed as an illusion to transcend. The same goes for most schools of Buddhism, Christianity, Advaita Vedanta, and contemporary non-duality lineages who hand-wave the ego away as a simple obstacle in the path to enlightenment. In contrast, Relationship Yoga believes in training and developing the ego along the path of awakening (awakening = moments of ego relaxation). This helps in maintaining a stable psychology and creates less contrast between meditative reality and default reality. We utilize the Ego Development Model of Dr. Susan Cook-Greuter & Beema Sharma of VeDA along with our own process to grow-up your ego along with brainwave entrainment technologies to induce ego-relaxed states of awakened consciousness.

Western culture has almost completely destroyed tantra. Neo-tantric practitioners, books, and workshops focused on sex and sensuality have taken over the mainstream’s understanding of what tantra is and in actuality it isn’t any of that. Tantra is a living Sampradaya (lineage), which discovered and intricately documented teachings regarding the chakra system, kundalini energy, and healing techniques which have been largely lost to our contemporary society. The tantra espoused through Relationship Yoga is a blending of texts from multiple non-dual traditions spanning the 3rd to the 13th Centuries CE as translated and taught by Doctors Christopher Wallace and Christopher Tompkins.

Most Westerners equate Yoga with postural yoga, but postures (asana) are in actuality only a small aspect of Yoga. Yoga is a vast spiritual and philosophical body of teachings and practices. Contemporary postural yoga is a relatively new invention which delivers only one slice of the yogic pie regarding deep healing. Through the Relationship Yoga website, you will receive traditional postural practices as transmitted by a Himalayan Yog-Vedantic Master, sequenced through a trauma & illness-informed perspective. You will also receive instruction and practices for meditation, breathwork, energy mastery, ego mastery, and relational love-growth perspectives as well. Yoga for on and off the mat, so to speak.