Illuminating Our True Nature | Free Book
Includes powerful and practical meditations, mantras, asanas, reflection questions, and more, to reduce our suffering—and the suffering of others.
We all get stuck in hurtful patterns that continue to create more suffering in our lives. In yoga philosophy, these patterns are known as the five kleshas. In this wise, practical guide, Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers us a path toward developing a deeper understanding of them and how they hijack us emotionally.
The five kleshas are: ignorance (avidya); overidentification with ego (asmita); attachment to desire or pleasure (raga); aversion or avoidance (dvesha); and fear of death or letting go (abhinivesha). Each one leads us to create tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a constant cycle of pain for us all.
Readers will learn to:
• deepen their connection with self and others;
• look at their relationship and attachment to pleasure and aversion to discomfort;
• notice more fully how their actions affect others;
• meet each moment as it arises and ride the waves of life as they come;
• and much more
Johnson offers us a way to find a sense of clarity, groundedness, and equanimity within ourselves by working through the kleshas one-by-one using asana, pranayama, mudra, mantra, reflection questions, and meditation.
In The Press
“The demand for healing tools has never been greater in these critical
times. Illuminating Our True Nature provides a comprehensive
framework for connecting with ourselves through yoga. This profound
work guides us toward personal healing and illuminates a path toward
healing on a collective level, making it an essential resource for our
current moment.”
—Dianne Bondy, author of
Yoga Where You Are
“Through her deep philosophical study and sharing of
vulnerable lived experiences, Michelle Johnson offers meaningful tools
for understanding and navigating the kleshas, afflictions
that cause suffering, while steering the reader back to the path
towards liberation.”
—Tejal Patel, yoga teacher,
podcaster, community organizer
“With remarkable generosity, Michelle Johnson equips us with the
essential tools to take deliberate and compassionate action,
facilitating positive change not only within ourselves but also within
our communities and the broader world. This is an important book that
should be read by anyone seeking liberation and desiring that same
liberation for all.”
—Seane Corn, author of
Revolution of the Soul
“In this immediately useful book, Michelle serves as a compassionate
guide to help you alleviate your personal suffering. When you do that
work, you can then remove obstacles to our collective
liberation. Her approachable writing explains what could be
opaque and inaccessible in clear language that will directly help you
to help yourself—and everyone around you.”
—Sage Rountree,
PhD, E-RYT500, author of The Art of Yoga Sequencing and
Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
“Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers a powerful and unique perspective
on the kleshas— five poisons rooted in ignorance that obscure the mind
and close the heart. She asks us to consider not only how they cause
suffering in our own lives, but how they contribute to systems of
oppression. Her wise and compassionate counsel, coupled with practices
of deep reflection, is the medicine we need to bring us home to our
true nature and, in doing so, work toward the liberation of all
beings.”
—Linda Sparrowe, author of
The Women’s Book of Yoga and Health and Yoga Mama
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