In most lineages of yoga, the five elements of life: earth, water, fire, air and space are considered sacred and seen as the underlying forces of existence for all life.
Because our bodies are made from these elements, we too are sacred.
The warmth of the sun and the warmth of the heart are different in degree, not kind. The air in our lungs is the same air that the wedgetail eagle rides.
Our flesh is formed from the elements of the earth and will dissolve back into the earth.
The space in my yoga studio is the same space in which my thoughts arise, and the same space occupied by stars and galaxies.
A sacred relationship to life is a conscious perspective of viewing ourselves as divinely interconnected to everything around us.
For many people these sacred relationships do not exist.
If we have no sacred relationship to the environment, to other people or to a faith teaching, then this means that this sacred aspect of our lives is dead or has never been accessed.
We cannot find the sacred in our internal experience because it hasn’t found a match in the external world.
So, it disappears from our lives and our cultures and is reduced to mythology or psychology.
Developing faith and gratitude opens the door to sacred relationships with everything in our reality.
The world becomes larger and all of it is recognised as alive.
We then start to live a meaningful, sacred life.
