🌒 The Stages of Grief, Through Yogic Wisdom 🌕

Grief isn’t linear. Yoga has never asked it to be.

Long before psychology named the stages of grief, yoga understood this truth:suffering moves through the body, the breath, the mind, and the soul in cycles.

Here’s how the stages of grief mirror yogic wisdom ⬇️

Denial — Avidyā (Ignorance)

The mind protects itself by saying “this can’t be real.”In yoga, this is avidyā — not a failure, but a veil.The nervous system is buffering reality until we have enough ground to feel it.

Anger — Rajas (Activation & Fire)

Anger is prana with nowhere to go. In yoga, rajas shows up as heat, restlessness, agitation.This isn’t wrong — it’s life force demanding movement, breath, and expression.

Bargaining — Attachment (Rāga)

“If I do this… maybe it won’t hurt as much.”Yoga calls this rāga — clinging to outcomes to feel safe. It's the mind trying to negotiate with impermanence.

Depression — Tamas (Heaviness & Stillness)

Tamas isn’t laziness — it’s gravity.Grief pulls us inward, downward, slower. Yoga doesn’t rush this stage. It invites rest, ritual, and being held by the earth.

Acceptance — Santosha (Peace with What Is)

Acceptance isn’t happiness. It’s truth without resistance, it's yoga, this is santosha — a quiet steadiness that says:“I can live with what is, even if it changed me.”

✨ Yoga doesn’t erase grief. It teaches us how to stay embodied while moving through it.

Grief is not a problem to fix —it’s a practice in presence, compassion, and remembering love.

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