Bhakti / Devotional Yoga

Sankalpa — a quiet inner offering at the start of practice. 'This is for love.'

Speak or sing a single name of the beloved. Hare Krishna, Om Namah Shivaya, the name you trust.

Mala practice — 108 repetitions of mantra, daily. The body learns the rhythm.

Slow daily reading of the Bhagavad Gita. Let Krishna speak through Arjuna's confusion.

Devotional listening — hearing stories, songs, teachings about the beloved.

Offer food before eating. Receive it back as grace. Eating becomes practice.

Call-and-response devotional singing with community. Voice surrenders into the group voice.

Seeing and being seen by a sacred image, person, or place. The eyes carry the heart.

Devotional service — sweeping the floor, feeding the hungry — as worship without ego.

Madhurya — feeding the heart's tenderness with poetry, song, story.

Sustained devotional mood — the heart in the orientation of love across the day.

The love-grief of separation. Longing itself becomes the practice.

Visiting a holy place. The journey, the company, the threshold, the return.

Prapatti — total handing over of the small self to the beloved. Not resignation; release.

Personal home worship — altar, offering, song. Practice as a thread through the home.