This is why workshops from a qualified professional are helpful.
Penny is 200hr YTT certified, 100hr Kundalini certified, 200hr Meditation certified, and has completed multiple short courses on Pranayama, Children’s yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
Heal a Broken Heart
Getting through a breakup is like surviving a natural disaster, but hearts can break from more than just breakups. Neglectful, traumatic, or oppressive childhoods are the first potential culprit. More Coming Soon
Integrate Spirituality
Tips on integrating spirituality into the mundane or material aspects of life. More Coming Soon
Awaken Intuition
Psychic abilities come in many forms. These abilities may awaken through unintended means, but can also be strengthened. More Coming Soon
Tarot
To stay in the loop about upcoming tarot courses, email penny.astrology@outlook.com
Astrology
To stay in the loop about upcoming astrology courses, email penny.astrology@outlook.com
Numerology
In 2013, Penny took an interest in alphabet numerology. By 2018, she published videos for each letter.
Spiritual Awakening
“Spiritual awakening involves shifts in consciousness, from identifying with the physical body to recognizing a deeper connection with your soul, the divine or the universe.” – Timothy Burgin
What is Awakening?
A spiritual awakening is a profound realization that your physical life is not the highest priority.
Under construction, more to come soon!
Is a spiritual awakening the same thing as enlightenment?
A spiritual awakening is not the same thing as enlightenment. Enlightenment refers to absolute or total understanding. You could say that with each thing you learn, you are becoming more and more enlightened, but a state of total enlightenment would make you an all-knowing being. Prophets are believed to have been enlightened.
While a spiritual awakening may be one of the first steps to enlightenment, it is not the same thing. A spiritual awakening is part of the path to enlightenment, if you believe that the average person can become enlightened at all.
Enlightenment
“…Used only in figurative sense, of spiritual enlightenment…”
– from the Online Etymology Dictionary
Yoga
“The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘Yuj’, meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to yoke’ or ‘to unite’”
– Dr. Ishwar V. Basavaraddi
Yoga for Enlightenment
Yoga is perhaps the one and only path to enlightenment, but this does not mean you need to put on tight pants and head to the gym.
Yoga has eight limbs: Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prānāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāranā, Dhyāna, and Samādhi
What this means is observances, ethics, physical postures, energy, removal of distractions, concentration, meditation, and achieving complete oneness are all a part of yoga.
In addition to this, there are many different kinds of yoga. Devotional or Bhakti yoga refers to prayer and worship. Karma yoga encompasses charity and other selfless acts.
Yoga teachings can help one understand and overcome all of the different obstacles in the path of spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and Nirvana or Samādhi. Emotional obstacles, like being broken hearted, are certainly encompassed in these obstacles and hinderances (also referred to as kleshas).
One observance of yoga is self-study. This is not just about knowing your astrological chart, but it is also about reading spiritual texts (preferably every day).
All that has a form is illusive and unreal.
When you see that all forms are illusive and unreal,
then you will begin to perceive your
true Buddha nature.”
– Buddha
‘The Diamond Sutra’
translated by Alex Johnson
Citations
Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of enlightenment. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/enlightenment
Yoga: Its origin, history and development. (n.d.). https://www.mea.gov.in/search-result.htm?25096/Yoga:_su_origen,_historia_y_desarrollo
Sejal Shah ERTY500 C-IAYT. The 8 limbs of yoga and why they matter to your practice. Sri Sri School of Yoga. https://srisrischoolofyoga.org/na/blog/8-limbs-of-yoga-ashtanga-yoga/
Burgin, T. (2023, September 8). Spiritual awakening: Definition, signs and symptoms • yoga basics. Yoga Basics. https://www.yogabasics.com/connect/yoga-blog/spiritual-awakening/
Johnson, A. (n.d.). The Diamond Sutra. https://www.lifelonglearningcollaborative.org/silkroads/articles/diamond-sutra-translation.pdf