Today/Tonight is Mahasivaratri, the great night of Siva. It’s when your consciousness explodes, and you realize you’ve been in a fog all winter. Or that ‘this too shall pass’ is, actually, true. It might have grief in it. Or joy. Or relief. Feelings being varied, it might have some of all of that.

Sivaratri is when the God Siva comes down from his mountaintop meditation and joins the world. Consciousness comes to being. Or Consciousness marries power and action (siva, pavarti).

Sivaratri is when Siva did his cosmic dance, thrumming the cycle of reality into being with beginning, happening, and destruction.

Sivaratri is celebrated as the return of the light, the victory of light over darkness, and/or inner awakening.

It’s a good time to pray or reflect.

It’s a wonderful time observance.

I wanted to make a video for someone, and that turned into a bit of a tutorial on āsana in general. Enjoy!