In Yoga Journal's online course, Finding Connection Through Yoga: A Workshop on Our Universal Oneness, legendary integrative-medicine and meditation expert Dr. Deepak Chopra and his yoga teacher, Sarah Platt-Finger, lead a seven-week yoga and meditation experience that will help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself. Sharing tools, science, and wisdom from Chopra's best-selling book You Are the Universe and his acclaimed The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga, Chopra and Platt-Finger will help you experience greater health, joy, and peace in your life. Learn more and sign up today!

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Tap into your connection with the universe to discover endless possibility with this practice designed by Sarah Platt-Finger, co-founder of ISHTA Yoga in New York City and Deepak Chopra’s yoga teacher. The physical poses and purifying breathing technique can dissolve stress and align you physically and mentally, leaving you open to experiencing higher consciousness, or a sense of inspiration, awe, pure joy, peace, liberation, love, and hope. As you practice, visualize electromagnetic energy moving through you with each breath. Be mindful of your mind-body connection and how it allows you to feel open, expansive, and at one with everything around you. In each pose, reflect on how you, at your root, are consciousness. Remind yourself:

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“I am That, You are That, and All This is That.”

8 Poses to Connect to Higher Consciousness

So hum breath Use this breath to purify your body and mind and find inspiration. Take a comfortable seat—one that allows you to lengthen your spine. On your inhalations, either softly say out loud or internally recite the mantra so, also pronounced sah (the sound of pure energy and awareness, and of inspiration). Feel your spine grow long, the top of your head lift, and your side ribs expand. Visualize a line of energy running from the top of your head to the base of your spine; this is the internal cosmic superhighway (also called the brahma nadi) that connects your higher consciousness and higher chakras, or energy centers, to your lower consciousness and lower chakras. On your exhalations, resonate the mantra hum (the sound of transformation). Pull the low belly in and distribute that awareness into each cell of your body. You can use this technique any time you need inspiration—at the grocery store, sitting in traffic—or on its own as a meditation. For now, take 3–5 minutes to focus on so hum breath, then practice it in each of the following poses, clearing the primary energy channel along your spine and making room for awareness. See also Discover Your True Potential with Deepak Chopra 1 / 9

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Sarah Platt-Finger is the co-founder of ISHTA Yoga and the private yoga teacher of Deepak Chopra. She teaches trainings, workshops, and retreats internationally with her husband, ISHTA Yoga co-founder Alan Finger. Platt-Finger is also on the board of directors for Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit organization that teaches yoga to survivors of domestic violence. Her daughter, Satya, inspires her every day to live a life based on love and unbound potential.