21/06/2026
“Liberation—also referred as mukti, kaivalya, or moksha—is thus the aim of yoga. The paths to this elusive, aspirational, and emancipated state may vary, but the teachings acknowledge a deep yearning within to expand our awareness of how we can free ourselves from our identification with the ever-changing material realm. The practices delve into how we can find release from physical-emotional-mental and spiritual suffering, to know and be in our truest essence. Yoga is a revelation of our primordial nature, which is beyond the limitations of individual mind-ego and sociocultural conditioning.
Although most of us in the contemporary world may not have the focus of gaining salvation as people did in bygone times (who can pursue moksha while navigating capitalism?), most of us are seeking to reduce and transcend dukka, our suffering, in some way. We long to be happy, to be healthy, to gain clarity of purpose and meaning in our everyday lives.
We long to belong.
Faith anchors us in the wild currents of a world that is increasingly challenging, violent, and complex. Most of us are engaged in the world, filled with the messiness of relationships and transactions. There is a yearning to find our ways out of intertwined oppressive systems that are desecrating the earth and dehumanizing each other in every way. Many of us are seeking a radical reimagination of the world we live in.”
— Anjali Rao, Yoga as Embodied Resistance
