PJ Davenport | Storytelling & Transformation—On & Off the Mat

Tag: mindfulness

  • The Heart of Hatha: Awareness Over Ambition

    The Heart of Hatha: Awareness Over Ambition

    Traditional systems like Ashtanga, and more contemporary forms such as Vinyasa, Bikram, or AcroYoga, all offer powerful physical and mental benefits. These practices build strength, coordination, breath awareness, and a grounded presence that can carry into daily life. But today, many people don’t encounter yoga through study, lineage, or lived guidance — they encounter it…

  • Seed Sounds and the Energy Within

    Seed Sounds and the Energy Within

    You probably know that words like chakra or namaste come from Sanskrit. But Sanskrit isn’t just an ancient language preserved in historical scriptures. It’s a living current of sound, carried through the body as vibration. It’s built from about fifty root sounds, each with its own shape and feeling in the body. When spoken clearly, these sounds form in…

  • Peace in a Fluid World: Zen, Jung & Embracing Change

    You’re here for a reason.Maybe something’s shifting, out there or in you.So it isn’t a quest for escape or distraction, but for something deeper.Peace perhaps, not as perfection but as posture.Something we develop from the inside out.Let’s explore three perspectives, not for certainties but for insight. We’ll start with the simplest question:What’s happening right now?No,…

  • Essence as Unfolding Mystery

    What is essence?Is it what was never there,or what always remains? Philosophers, mystics, seekers…we’ve all turned this word over in our hands,trying to feel its shape.And every tradition casts it in a different light. The English word essence comes from the Latin essentia, meaning “being” or “nature.”It was coined to translate the Greek ousia—the “substance” or “whatness” of a…

  • Breathing with the Earth: A Guide to Grounding Meditation

    Finding Stillness in a Spinning World Life often pulls us in all directions—past, future, obligations, expectations. Grounding meditation offers a way to pause, to find stillness amidst the rush. This guide will help you reconnect with the present moment by anchoring your awareness in the sensations of your body and breath, while attuning to the earth beneath you.…