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.

As a Scorpio sun, this season always calls me deeper — into the spaces most people avoid.The places where endings hum with wisdom and death isn’t something to fear but something to study. In yogic philosophy, the great teacher of death is Shiva —the silent witness who sits in meditation among ashes, teaching us that what we lose was never truly ours, and what we are cannot be destroyed. Scorpio energy is this same fire of dissolution. It burns illusion. It strips away the false self so the soul can stand naked in truth.Every heartbreak, every letting go, every silent metamorphosis is a small cremation — an offering to the divine. Through these deaths, I’ve learned that loss is not the opposite of life —it’s what keeps life sacred. It is what keeps love honest. So if you’re in a season of endings let the ashes remind you:something holy always survives the fire. 🦂Death is the yoga of Scorpio —not an ending, but a return to the eternal.