Santosha / Contentment How Gratitude and Acceptance Can Bring Contentment

By Kyczy Hawk

Meditation, writing exercises and yoga are used to help the reader discover this jewel of yoga practices. Find happiness and peace but using some simple tools. This easy to read book will allow you to find a variety of ways to enrich your life with Santosha, the yoga niyama: contentment. If you are suffering from isolation, depression, or in recovery from an addiction; you may experience dis-ease and disharmony from time to time. Pick up this book and try one or more of the suggestions to reframe your attitude and find your bliss. Using simple techniques like gratitude practices and acceptance the world can take on a whole new look.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kyczy Hawk
• Release date: Jun 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311000354

Kyczy Hawk

I am a person in recovery and yoga teacher. I teach people in recovery in various venues - from jails to studios. I present workshops on various subjects relating to yoga and recovery, lead S.O.A.R.TM teacher certification courses and work closely with Nikki Myers, 500 ERYT and the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery trainings and classes. I have a great family life and stay close to my recovery principles. I used to work in accounting, most recently in industry, and I was able to bring my yoga and recovery to my daily life there as well.

Book preview

Santosha / Contentment

How Gratitude and Acceptance Can Bring Contentment

Kyczy Hawk

Copyright 2014 by Kyczy Hawk

Smashwords Edition

Smashwords License Statement

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Santosha / Contentment

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the blissful practice of contentment. Santosha is the sanskrit word defining the state of peace achieved through ultimate acceptance and awareness of grace. If it were only as easy to BE in santosha as it is to define it! In fact many practices in yoga come before this state is addressed. In this book we will go through a process to recognize and experience santosha. These practices can be done alone or in a group; the recommendation is that they are indeed DONE and not just read. It is the act of doing that changes understanding from the intellect to feeling; from the thought to play.

A majority of our discomforts with life come from a lack of acceptance or an unawareness of gratitude. Discord with the way things are can bring on feelings of frustration, impatience and disharmony. Seeing things as they are and being thankful can ease a conflict between I WANT and WHAT IS. Acceptance doesn’t mean approval or enjoyment or liking; it is the lifting of the veil between what one wishes and what exists. Only then can one make a decision about the next right