A guided route
Spiritual Awakening Journey
Seven BREATHE steps and a return. Follow the teachings, selected readings and practical invitations at your own pace.
Follow the Journey ↗Spiritual awakening · Advaita Vedānta
A quieter question.
A deeper understanding.
Explore spiritual awakening through Listening, Welcoming, meditation and self-inquiry. Knowing via Being, with James Traverse.
Begin the Spiritual Awakening Journey What is spiritual awakening?Homeground
How you appear — Atman and What you are — Brahman are not-two.
Find your starting point
Spiritual awakening: begin, explore, return.
Follow a guided journey, explore “Who am I?”, or meet the whole teaching through Om. You do not need a special experience to begin.
Direct inquiry
‘Who Am I?’ — An Experiential Answer
Explore Knowing via Being through a short introduction and linked practices in self-inquiry, Listening and everyday life.
Explore Who Am I? ↗
Begin and return
Home — Om
Meet the invitation at the heart of Being Yoga. Explore Om, follow the journey and return to the beginning with fresh eyes.
Visit Home — Om ↗Choose a practice: Explore the Practice Library for meditation, body awareness, natural breathing, Yoga Nidra and self-inquiry.
Understand the approach: Read Spiritual Awakening: Understanding and Exploring Your True Nature, or browse the teaching through Explore Being Yoga.
Explore the teaching
Reflections to sit with.
Study with James
An invitation
to look for yourself.
James Traverse’s teaching brings together more than 50 years of yoga experience, the influence of Jean Klein, and an ongoing inquiry into non-dual awareness.
Listening and Welcoming are foundations of this approach. Understanding finds expression in how we relate, act and meet change.
Learn with James ↗Why? Why study all this?
For peace of mind,
lasting contentment
and well-being.
The point is self-knowledge: wisdom that includes and transcends intellectual knowledge.
The purpose of the inquiry ↗