To me, sadhana is a daily spiritual practice allowing time and space for an individual to turn inward.
As Yogi Bhajan (of the Kundalini yoga tradition) says, "Sadhana is self-enrichment. It is not something which is done to please somebody or to gain something. Sadhana is a personal process in which you bring out your best."
Sadhana could be taking a walk in nature, doing breath work or yoga asanas on a mat, spending time meditating or chanting, reading and reflecting on a poem, or simply watching the sun rise.
Please accept this post as a possible starting point for your own practice today.
"Ten Years Later" by David Whyte
When the mind is clear and the surface of the now still, now swaying water
slaps against the rolling kayak,
I find myself near darkness, paddling again to Yellow Island.
Every spring wildflowers cover the grey rocks.
Every year the sea breeze ruffles the cold and lovely pearls hidden in the center of the flowers
as if remembering them by touch alone.
A calm and lonely, trembling beauty that frightened me in youth.
Now their loneliness feels familiar, one small thing I’ve learned these years,
how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.
Innocence is what we allow to be gifted back to us once we’ve given ourselves away.
There is one world only, the one to which we gave ourselves utterly, and to which one day
we are blessed to return.
