Cultivate Balance and Harmony: Sattva

What is sattva?
In the yoga tradition, there is a beautiful word, sattva, which stands for the qualities of goodness, balance, harmony and serenity. These are the qualities that yogis aim to cultivate through their practices, and indeed the very qualities that most of us can attest to wanting more of in our lives

Sattva is one of the three gunas or elemental qualities that are described in the yogic traditional texts. The tradition describes how these three elemental qualities make up the essential aspects of nature: energy, matter and consciousness. They are:

• Sattva – the power of Light, harmony, balance, that which is uplifting, buoyant, and serene.
• Rajas – the power of Energy, action, change and movement, also passion, desire, agitation, and tension
• Tamas – the power of Darkness, inertia, form, materiality, also lethargy, heaviness, dullness

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