Yoga Anatman: What if everything began with love?

This article is a synthesis of the Yoga Anatman session of November 6, 2026, guided by Alexandre Anatman, at the heart of the house of happiness.

A sound rises in the half-light of morning. A single breath in, long and full. Then everything settles ✨, like a feather finally coming to rest on the ground.

“I breathe in, I let go of everything.” These first words open the door. Behind it waits a state you may already know: a space where the mind falls silent and the body becomes an inhabited temple. This morning, Alexandre links sound to this altered state of consciousness, so that every future sound brings you back to it more quickly.

What follows is a journey. The body rises, stretches, trembles and laughs. The heart opens. Tears flow, welcomed with infinite gentleness 🤍. At the end of the path, a steaming cup of chai offers a revelation, as simple as dawn.

What springs forth before the gesture

Have you ever wondered where your desires are born? Where does that inner movement come from, the one that moves you to unroll your mat at dawn, to cook a meal for the people you love, to dream of a shared life?

This morning, the answer came through the breath. It fits in a single word, and that word holds everything: love. Before every intention, before every project, before every step, there is this silent source from which everything springs 💫.

Let yourself be guided. Close your eyes for a moment. Breathe. The veil is about to lift, posture after posture, mantra after mantra, until the birth of the phoenix.

The morning’s teaching

A warm cup between your hands. The spicy scent of chai, lovingly prepared by Amaya, rises to your face. Back straight, head upright, the blindfold still resting over your eyes. This is the elixir part, the beating heart of every morning ☕.

Alexandre reminds us: this practice is a journey to visit the inner world, to explore it, and even to change it. Why? Because it is the inside that creates the outside. Each person offers their own sound, then blows gently across the surface of the cup. This is the initiation of the sacred breath 🕊️.

The video game controller

First realization: the physical body is the joystick, the controller for this great video game we call life. This body can command through the sacred word. It can also communicate, express itself, through the sacred breath.

And it is the intention born of the heart, born of being, that brings forth the sacred. Its opposite? The relative identity lodged in the head, in the mind. The sacred is the moment when consciousness, presence, the soul, being itself express themselves fully.

Tears flow in the room 🤍. “Let the tears come,” Alexandre whispers. Each tear is welcomed like an offering.

You already have everything

Second realization, immense in its simplicity: in this video game, you have by nature absolutely everything you need to live, to be, to build your life. At every moment. Your body, your health, your joy, and above all this infinite love that each of us carries somewhere inside.

From this raw material, you can build, craft, manifest, embody your projects, your desires, your intentions 🌱.

The first pillar: intention

Here we are at pillar number one of the TCR, the Theory of the Creation of Reality: the pillar of intention. Everything begins with an intention. And intention itself springs from love.

“Before intention, there is love, the source of everything; that is where everything springs from.”

The examples flow like a river. Love for your body creates the intention to do yoga every morning. Love for health creates the intention to move, to eat well. Love for who you are creates the intention to awaken. Love for others creates beautiful relationships, perhaps a partnership. Love for the We gives birth to ecovillages, to the longing to live together 💞.

The more love grows in you, the more beautiful intentions spring from emptiness, from unity. With great tenderness, Alexandre also speaks of those who have cut themselves off from their hearts after childhood trauma: intentions dwindle, and the meaning of life seems to fade away. That is the other end of the scale. And the way back exists: opening the heart makes life thrilling, fabulous, magnificent, wonderful 🌅.

Making space for love

You have the power to create space within you to welcome love, to be love. For love is what underlies the universe. It is infinite, ethereal, it is everything. And it is precisely the relative identity, the creation of the “me” in the game, that makes it possible to embody, to manifest, to live every form of love in this body.

That is the beauty of the Non-Self: the absolute plays the game of form in order to taste love in all its flavors.

The elixir of rebirth

Then comes this morning’s magic elixir: an elixir of rebirth. Starting over from scratch, from what you are. “I am now. I am what I want to be. I start again from 0. I am the phoenix.” Dying and being reborn, every morning 🦋.

And you can share this infinite freedom with all your other lives, your parallel lives, in real time. Create a system of intercommunication between them. Share your ideas with all your lives.

The session closes in a shower of gratitude: for the house of happiness, for the ecovillage, for the We, and even for Isabelle’s cauliflower gratin, Maya’s soup, Kevin’s cookies and tarts, Alexi’s banana cakes and pizzas, Lilith’s chocolate mousse. The sacred also dwells in a shared plate 🙏.

Realizations during Yoga Anatman

Everything begins with an individual sound. Each person their own. Then the first mantra, the one that opens every door: “I surrender to my inner yogi, I surrender.” Breathe in. And the body lets go of everything, surrenders, gently dissolves into presence ✨.

Standing, the blindfold ready over your eyes, you first massage your jaw, where so many silent tensions hide. Your feet are pressed firmly into the ground. You press at the hinge of the jaw, you listen to what the body is telling you.

Suspended by the hands

Then the arms rise. You are planted like a tree, and you suspend yourself by the hands, in upward salute mountain pose (Urdhva Hastasana — stretches the entire back chain). “I rise, I rise, I rise.” The lower back lengthens. The shoulders awaken. You engage your calves, thighs, glutes and abs, and the body becomes a column of light 🌟.

The shoulders start to burn. The gaze rests on a single point. Alexandre expresses his gratitude for the sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and for the last three months of accumulated practice. Each morning adds to the one before, like pearls on a string.

The blindfold goes on. You gently stretch backward, face turned toward the sky (gentle Anuvittasana — opens the throat and the back of the neck). The neck lengthens, the spine stretches. Then your hands clasp behind your back and you fold down, head toward the floor, hands toward the sky (Baddha Hasta Uttanasana — opens the shoulders and stretches the hamstrings). The shoulder blades open like wings.

Your hands touch the floor, you push, you straighten your legs (Uttanasana — stretches the back of the body). Then the right angle, hands on the knees (Ardha Uttanasana — long, extended back). As you exhale, you let go of everything and simply feel the backs of your legs speaking to you.

Welcoming sensations

The right arm rises in a beautiful vertical line, then you lean to the left in an arc (Parsva Urdhva Hastasana — side stretch of the torso). Then comes a gesture of great tenderness: massaging the neck and the back of the head, in circles with the thumb, with this delightful mantra: “I surrender to the inner masseur, I surrender.”

On the other side, a second mantra settles into the whole body: “I welcome all the sensations of the body, I welcome, I am in the body.” Here is the first secret of the morning 🌿. Being in the body, fully, rather than in the head.

Then chin circles, in two stages. First the head alone, torso upright, “like a rolling marble” (Griva Sanchalana — neck mobility). Then the whole body follows the chin in wide circles, until the hands brush the floor. Lower back, abs, obliques: everything wakes up. “It’s a great posture for working the whole body,” Alexandre says with a smile. Each at their own pace.

The phoenix is reborn

A grounding into the earth through the feet, like roots (Tadasana — rootedness and stability). Then the arms open into a cross: a vertical suspension, a horizontal pull. The head tilts slightly back. And this is where the session tips over into the sacred 💫.

“To life, I love you. To the video games of life, I love you.” Then the great mantra of reconciliation, the one that sets you free: “I am sorry. Forgive me. I forgive you everything and I forgive myself everything. All is forgiven.”

“I start again from 0 now. I am reborn now. I am the phoenix.”

Your hands rest on your lower back to send love there, a true act of care. The head goes back, in the Five Tibetans posture (Anuvittasana — opens the heart and the rib cage). Thighs, glutes and abs are engaged. Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth. And this reassuring mantra: “I am safe.” You return to upright very slowly, welcoming every emotion 🤍.

The pelvis dances, the frog burns

Another right angle, another forward fold. Then the hula hoop: the pelvis draws circles, feet firmly planted in the earth, the arches of the feet awake. “I listen to the body. Everyone goes at their own pace.” The knees soften, the movement stays gentle and fluid.

Then comes the frog, three minutes, back straight, head upright, gaze ahead, with the breath of fire 🔥. After that, total freedom: your favorite posture, more frog, or push-ups to strengthen the muscles. The body heats up, the breath intensifies.

And here is a precious realization: physical effort helps you surrender more easily. “If I’m a little tired, all the better for letting go even more easily.” Lying down, you fill your lungs to the maximum, then you experience letting go, release, total surrender.

Laughter, our deep nature

On your back, hands stretched overhead, you pull, you press through your heels, you lengthen the spine (Supta Tadasana — full lengthening of the spine). And you welcome the Kundalini. If laughter comes, let it laugh.

“It is extreme relaxation that gives rise to laughter. My deep nature is to be laughter, to be joy and peace, and also to be ecstasy and euphoria.”

The right leg rises to the perpendicular (Supta Padangusthasana — deep hamstring stretch). The lower back stays pressed to the floor, the neck relaxed, only the forearms pull. The trembling arrives. And it is welcomed: “I surrender to the trembling.” The heart opens 💖. “I love you, I am love.” Then the left leg, with the same gentleness.

Mantras to the physical body

This is the moment for a declaration of love to your own body: “To my physical body, I love you, I take care of you every day.” Then the reconciliation: “I am sorry. Forgive me. I start again from 0 and I take care of you.”

Gratitude for sharing joys together. Gratitude for being together. “I release in love everything that would have me live in my head. I live in my body. I honor and celebrate my body.” Then: “I allow myself to love. I allow myself to be loved.”

Then comes a courageous release 🌱: “I release in love everything that makes me smoke. I release in love all the toxic substances I have put into my body.” With the grace of Mary, the body purifies itself. “I surrender to the Kundalini, the life energy. I let it cleanse me.”

And ancient figures awaken within you: “I find the healer in me again. I find the shaman in me again.” Gratitude to this body that purifies itself. “I transform, I alchemize everything, I transmute my body.” You welcome all of Mary’s light, peace, the Christic energies 🕊️.

The toes, roots of balance

Your knees come up toward your chest and you pull on your little toes (Apanasana — releases the lower back). Energy flows through the whole body. The toes matter enormously for walking barefoot and finding balance. With humor and depth: “I release in love everything that wants me to walk in shoes.” Then the legs rise toward the sky, the hands catch the big toes (Ananda Balasana — opens the hips). “I reconnect with the yogini, the yogi.”

And then everything lets go. Silence settles in, inhabited. “It is all of life that will live through this body. Without programs, without a mini-identity. It is life, the absolute.” A question hangs in the air: what does it feel like to you, living the absolute?

The answer arrives on its own: when the thoughts fall silent, there is peace. Just a presence that welcomes everything. Loving awareness. Loving presence. Welcoming presence 🙏.

Conscious walking: living from the pelvis

After the elixir, it’s time for integration. Eyes still closed, you roll up your mat, learning to do so many things without sight. Then you press yourself against a window: shoulder blades, glutes and head aligned, suspended from the crown of the head. “Memorize it.” Feel this verticality, then walk with it.

All your awareness descends into your bare feet: the changing temperature, the texture of the floor, your balance. Hugs spring up from chance encounters. Walking backward offers “deliciously pleasurable” stretches, precisely because it is so unusual.

And here is a great revelation of the morning: consciousness also dwells in the pelvis. The impression of living in the head simply comes from the fact that the eyes, ears, nose and mouth are located there. In truth, consciousness is just as much in the pelvis as in the eyes. “I live from the pelvis. I feel from the pelvis.” Then: “I am in my feet.” A balance system watches over you at every moment, and the more you practice, the more fluid it becomes 🌿.

On three, the eyes open. Visual reality is added, and the presence in the feet remains intact. It observes. It walks all by itself. It stays grounded, because presence permanently inhabits the feet. So you let the soul, being itself, live a beautiful day. With an invitation: thirty minutes of conscious walking in nature today 🌅.

The postures of the session

🧘 Jaw massage — Anatman movement
The posture: Standing, feet pressed firmly into the floor, you gently open your jaw and massage the muscles at the hinge of the jaw with your fingertips. The breath stays calm, attentive to the sensations.
Benefits for the body: Releases the chewing muscles, relaxes the face and the temples, encourages freer breathing.

🧘 Mountain with raised arms, suspended by the hands — Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: Feet grounded, arms stretched toward the sky, you imagine yourself suspended by your hands. You engage calves, thighs, glutes and abs, gaze straight ahead, and rise with every inhale.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the whole spine and the lower back, opens the shoulders, strengthens the core and the legs.

🧘 Neck backbend, gaze to the sky — Anuvittasana (gentle variation)
The posture: Blindfold over your eyes, you gently tilt your head and upper back backward, as if looking up. Breathing in through the nose, the neck and spine lengthen.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the front of the neck and the throat, mobilizes the cervical vertebrae, opens the chest.

🧘 Forward fold, hands clasped behind the back — Baddha Hasta Uttanasana
The posture: Back upright, you interlace your hands behind your back and draw them backward, then lower your head while your hands rise toward the sky.
Benefits for the body: Opens the shoulders and stretches the shoulder blades, lengthens the backs of the legs, brings blood flow to the upper body.

🧘 Standing forward fold, hands on the floor — Uttanasana
The posture: Folded forward, hands touching the floor, you press into it and push to straighten your legs, exhaling deeply.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the hamstrings and calves, makes the back more supple, calms the nervous system.

🧘 The right angle — Ardha Uttanasana
The posture: Hands resting on your knees, your back forms a straight line parallel to the floor. As you exhale, you release everything and feel the backs of your legs.
Benefits for the body: Lengthens the spine, tones the back muscles, stretches the backs of the thighs.

🧘 Side bend, arm raised — Parsva Urdhva Hastasana
The posture: One arm rises in a vertical line, then you lean in an arc toward the opposite side, the opposite heel lifting slightly. Then the other side.
Benefits for the body: Stretches the sides of the body, the intercostal muscles and the top of the glutes, makes the spine more supple laterally, opens the breath.

🧘 Massage of the neck and the back of the head — Anatman movement
The posture: Still leaning to the side, the free hand massages the neck and the back of the skull in circles with the thumb, accompanying the mantra of the inner masseur.
Benefits for the body: Relaxes the trapezius and the neck muscles, encourages circulation in the cervical area.

🧘 Chin circles — Griva Sanchalana
The posture: The torso stays upright, only the head turns in small circles guided by the chin, like a rolling marble, first in one direction, then the other.
Benefits for the body: Gently mobilizes the neck, stretches the neck muscles, releases the shoulders.

🧘 Wide whole-body circles — Anatman movement
The posture: The chin draws the whole body into wide circles, backward and then forward until the hands brush the floor. Each at their own pace, in both directions.
Benefits for the body: Mobilizes the entire spine, works the abdominals and obliques, makes the lower back more supple.

🧘 Grounding into the earth — Tadasana
The posture: Standing, feet parallel, you feel your legs like roots plunging into the ground. The breath is full and steady.
Benefits for the body: Improves balance and posture, activates the arches of the feet, stabilizes the pelvis.

🧘 Arms in a cross, double suspension — Tadasana with arms in a cross
The posture: After raising the arms toward the sky, the arms open into a cross and pull to the left and right, while the spine stays suspended upward. The head tilts slightly back.
Benefits for the body: Opens the rib cage, strengthens the shoulders and upper back, lengthens the spine.

🧘 Five Tibetans backbend — Anuvittasana
The posture: Hands resting on your lower back, you lean backward, head released back, supporting the posture with engaged thighs, glutes and abs. Breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth.
Benefits for the body: Opens the chest and the front of the body, strengthens the glutes and thighs, mobilizes the thoracic vertebrae.

🧘 Hula hoop, pelvic circles — Anatman movement
The posture: Feet firmly planted, knees slightly soft, the pelvis draws slow circles, backward, to the side, forward, then in the other direction.
Benefits for the body: Makes the hips and lower back more supple, massages the abdominal organs, develops balance.

🧘 The frog and breath of fire — dynamic Malasana with Kapalabhati
The posture: For three minutes, back and head upright, gaze ahead, you flow through the rising and lowering of the frog with the breath of fire, quick and rhythmic.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the thighs and glutes, boosts circulation, tones the diaphragm and the abdominals.

🧘 Free posture or push-ups — Chaturanga Dandasana
The posture: Your choice: your favorite posture, more frog, or push-ups, body aligned from heels to head, arms bending and straightening.
Benefits for the body: Strengthens the arms, the chest and the core, builds muscular endurance.

🧘 Lying-down release — Savasana
The posture: Lying down, you breathe in through the nose as fully as you can, then breathe out through the mouth, letting go of everything, until complete surrender.
Benefits for the body: Releases all the muscles, slows the heart rate, supports recovery after effort.

🧘 Lying stretch, arms overhead — Supta Tadasana
The posture: On your back, arms stretched behind your head, you pull through your hands and press through your heels to stretch the spine in both directions.
Benefits for the body: Lengthens the entire spine, decompresses the vertebrae, opens the shoulders.

🧘 Right leg vertical — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: On your back, lower back pressed into the floor, neck relaxed, you raise your straight right leg to the perpendicular. Only the forearms pull, the left heel presses lightly into the floor. The trembling is welcomed.
Benefits for the body: Deeply stretches the hamstrings and the calf, relieves the lower back, makes the hip more supple.

🧘 Left leg vertical — Supta Padangusthasana
The posture: The same placement on the other side: left leg stretched toward the sky, right heel pressing down, lower back on the floor, neck relaxed, forearms pulling.
Benefits for the body: Balances the stretch between both legs, mobilizes the hip joint, relaxes the lumbar region.

🧘 Knees to chest, little toes — Apanasana
The posture: Lying down, the knees come up toward the chest and the hands pull on the little toes, neck relaxed, letting the energy flow.
Benefits for the body: Releases the lower back, massages the abdomen, makes the toes more supple for better balance when walking barefoot.

🧘 Legs to the sky, big toes — Ananda Balasana
The posture: Legs raised toward the sky, the hands grasp the big toes and pull gently, the back of the neck staying relaxed on the floor.
Benefits for the body: Opens the hips and groin, stretches the inner thighs, releases the spine.

🧘 Elixir seat — Sukhasana
The posture: Seated, back straight, head upright, blindfold over the eyes, the cup of chai between your hands. You blow across the surface of the cup, welcoming its warmth.
Benefits for the body: Straightens the spine, opens the hips, invites slow, deep breathing.

🧘 Alignment against the window — Tadasana against the wall
The posture: Eyes closed, you press yourself against a window or a wall: shoulder blades, glutes and back of the head in contact, suspended from the crown of the head. You memorize this verticality.
Benefits for the body: Improves posture and spinal alignment, opens the shoulders, trains proprioception.

🧘 Conscious barefoot walking, forward and backward — Anatman movement
The posture: First blindfolded, then with eyes open, you walk barefoot, your awareness in your feet and in your pelvis, forward and then backward, keeping the verticality you memorized.
Benefits for the body: Develops balance and proprioception, awakens the arches of the feet, stretches the backs of the legs when walking backward.

Before intention, there is love, the source of everything; that is where everything springs from.

When there are no more thoughts, there is peace. Just a presence that welcomes everything.

I start again from 0. I am the phoenix. I die and I am reborn.

---

Voices from the We

Radiant self-love

“Yes🙏💖I love you I love myself” — Valérie

Creating your life, detail by detail

• “I improve my life at every moment✨️ I create…✨️I organize myself…✨️I build every detail of this wonderful life…✨️” — SonEauLuminescente

Shared gratitude

• “Thank you so much, have a lovely day, all of you” — Valérie

---

Themes: intention · love · rebirth · phoenix · kundalini · elixir · conscious walking · gratitude

This article was originally written in French: Yoga Anatman : Et si tout commençait par l’amour ?