224: Taking A Yogic Path with Sahara Rose

Namaste, it's Sahara Rose. And welcome back to the Highest Self podcast, a place where discuss what makes you your soul's highest evolvement. I am so excited to share with you today's episode because it is all about my new deck, Yogic Path, which is available in Amazon, Barnes Noble, and wherever cards are sold. This is a 54 card deck with 108 meanings, 108 being a very auspicious number in the Vedic spiritual world. And it will bring you to bridge your intuition with your cognitive knowing. It essentially allows you to tap into your intuition and enhance your meditation practice with this mystical tool. You see, a lot of us, we do meditations. We, you know, try to just sit and think about nothing and it's really hard and doesn't work out. And then we get stressed out and we overthink, et cetera. But I love working with a deck because it is a more feminine way of connecting. You're interacting with the deck. You're asking questions, you're pulling cards, you're getting the answers. And to me, this allows me to connect to my intuition in a deeper way because I'm receiving feedback straight from source. I'm asking questions like, who's guiding me at this time? And then I pull a card and it's telling me, or what should I focus on? What message do my guides have for me? What can I focus on to fulfill my dharma? How can I be guided more towards my highest path? What do I need to focus on this week? And I pull the cards and they offer me insight, which I can then use my intuition to decide how that's going to show up. So if you're someone who's on a spiritual path and you've never worked with a deck before, I highly recommend getting one. Whether it's a yogic path or another deck that calls to you, you have to love the deck. And in this episode, I'm going to be sharing with you all about what the meanings of the cards are in a yogic path. So you can see, does this speak to me? Am I all about a yogic path? Or maybe I'm not, and that's cool too. But working with a deck is so transformational. And working with an oracle card deck is quite different than a tarot deck, because a tarot deck is actually a specific style of decks. It's. It's always the same. They always have the same cards, the same meanings, the same messages. People have their own art, their own interpretation. But the tarot is one universal concept, whereas oracle cards Are anyone can channel their own versions. So it's not just one. There's no two oracle cards that are the same. So there's no other deck like a yogic path. And I actually channeled the entire deck. While in India writing Eat, Feel Fresh and taking the photography for it, I received the message that I needed to create a deck bringing Ayurveda, chakras, koshas, deities, Vedic spirituality to life. And that not everyone's going to read a book, not everyone's going to sit down and study. People want something interactive. People want to learn in a more fun and playful way. And what better way than enhancing your intuition with these cards, using these cards as guidance to bring you closer to your own truth. So I explain in this episode and also in the guidebook that comes with the deck how I work with decks, which is very different than how most people do to me. I believe the deck works better with you, the more connected you are with your intuition. I believe that they are tools to help you come across your own answers. I don't believe that the deck is an end all and a be all, but rather it provides you the guidance so you can think of things in a more clear way. I also do believe that the divine works through the deck. For example, this past weekend, I had my goddess activation event where I was teaching 100 women how to connect to their inner goddess through dance. And in front, I totally new deck. I put it out there, and I said, we're gonna pull a card and see who's guiding us for today's practice. And I was actually really hoping it was gonna be Lalita Sundari because she's the goddess of sensuality. And, you know, we were gonna belly dance and twerk, so I was kind of hoping she would come out, but I wasn't attached to it either. So I spread it. Everyone's watching. I pull the card, and guess who comes out? Lalita Sundari. Like, you can't make this shit up. You really can't. So the divine works with us through these cards. And the more connected we are to our intuition, the better the cards are going to work, because the universe is always sending us messages. It's always sending us signals. We just aren't picking up on them. That signal could be through a headache. It could be through, you know, a sign that we just drove by. It could be through a feeling in our body. It could be through a color that we saw. There are so many ways that our guides provide us with signs and messages, but most of us don't realize it. We think it's odds, nothing. It's just a coincidence, or we don't even cognitively think about it. But working with cards, you're literally asking your guides, your intuition, your highest self, for answers on these questions that your soul has. So it's almost like there's no way to not think about it. You're totally immersed in the moment. So not only is that a very meditative practice, but also you're able to be in conversation with your guides. What cooler thing than that? Than to be like, what message do my guides have for me? And to pull the card and to see it right there, and if you don't believe in it, it's not gonna work. But I've just seen too much. I've seen people pulling the exact cards that they need, and I facilitated cards readings for so many people. And often it's like they pull the card that's all about breaking up and they just had a breakup, or they pull the card that's all about concentration, and they know they really need to be focusing on their dharma or they pull a card that's all about empowerment. They know they need to stay step up for something they believe in. So it's amazing that what I've seen people pull these cards and how it's exactly the medicine that they need. So I recommend, you know, working with a deck, whether it's a yogic path or something else, to just enhance your intuition and to connect to that more spiritual side of you. Maybe you have tons of decks, maybe it's your first one, but I really believe it's a beautiful addition to anyone's spiritual practice. So in this episode, I'm gonna dive into the meanings. We're gonna talk about chakras first, and then we're going to talk about koshas, the deities, Vedic spirituality, yoga sutras, and of course, the difference between yoga and Ayurveda and what yoga is all about. So, further ado, let's welcome me to the Highest Self podcast. I am so excited to share with you that my new deck, Yoga Path, is now out. I've been working on this deck for two years, guys, and it has been really hard for me to keep it a secret because I've been pouring my love and my soul into this deck, into the words that you're going to read in the guidebook, into the messages it is that come through to you. And I'm so excited for these cards to now be in your hands. So what inspired me to create this deck? Well, I'm going to share all about that and what it means to even walk a yogic path in this episode. So what is a yogic path? Well, let's talk first about what the word yoga means. You know most of us practice yoga, right? We think yoga is downward dog, you know, doing the vinyasas, chaturanga, Anna, Ana, Anna. Something that ends with Anna. The reason why is in Sanskrit, all of the asanas end with Anna. That's why it's like. That's why you keep hearing the Ana at the end. But yoga is actually not asana. Even asana, the movements are not actually what asana means. So let's just dive into all of this right now. So the word yoga means to merge, to yoke, to become one with. So what are we becoming one with? Our sweaty yoga mats? The guy next to us? No, we are becoming one with universal consciousness. So when we practice yoga, we are actually yoking with that are our higher selves, with Atman. Atman is your highest self, you and your most grand totality form. That's Atman. So yoga is a spiritual practice. Yoga was never meant to give you Jennifer Aniston from Friends abs. That's why I started, by the way. But that's not why I stayed. And it didn't work. Don't have those Jennifer Aniston abs still. Been a while. I've been practicing. But yoga is a spiritual practice. It brought me here, chilling on my couch, and it's to become one with all. It's to be able to walk through life and not get so thrown off when life throws you curveballs. To be flexible with all things. To be able to sit in stillness when shit is hitting the fan, that is what yoga is about. So when it was created over 5,000 years ago in the ancient Vedic times, channeled by the Rishis, who were essentially downloading the information that was in the Vedas. Veda, meaning knowledge, the eldest recorded text that essentially were channeled to us from the divine to help us live our most optimal human experiences. I mean, this is like the universe's gift to mankind. And that's what Ayurveda comes from. Ayurveda, the knowledge of life, how we can have mental and physical balance, how we can preserve these vessels and deal with these minds. Well, yoga is actually a spiritual science. It's not about the mind, it's not about the body. That's Ayurveda. If you're practicing yoga for mental or physical reasons, you're practicing Ayurveda. But yoga is the path to spirit. It's the path of transcendence. It's the path of meditation. It's the path of oneness, yoking oneness. If there's no difference between the microcosm and the macrocosm, you are experiencing yoga. So a yogic path is to live your life wanting to merge with your highest self. So if you're listening to this podcast, you are on a yogic path already. Maybe you're just starting it, or maybe you've been in it for 20, 30 years. But we're all on a yogic path here. We're all here to experience the oneness of who we are and the interconnectedness of ourselves with all things. Because when we can tap into that, then we no longer feel duality. We no longer feel the pain and the suffering. We're able to move past it and to connect with the higher reason, the higher consciousness. And that higher consciousness is not above us. It's right here within us. We call it higher, but it's not actually up there. It's right here. And that's what yoga is about. So yoga is this beautiful ancient science to allow us to use our physical bodies, use our breath, use different postures to connect with the divine. And then Ayurveda was a sister science to help us heal our mental and physical bodies, our koshas, the layers outside our bodies as well. Both of them can help balance our chakras, our energy centers within our bodies. I won't go through the chakras again. I've gone through them many times. I have an episode. If you Google Highest Self podcast chakras, you'll hear it. I have a whole chapter in Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda, my first book, all about the chakras. But we have these energy centers in our bodies that tell us different things. And I'll briefly go over them because they're part of the yogic path. But the chakras are essentially guiding forces to tell us where things are out of balance, mentally and physically, and where they're actually stored in our bodies. So we have a root chakra. Our root chakra is our safety and our security. When it's out of balance, we feel fear. It's connected to the color red. Our sacral chakra is pleasure, creativity, abundance. I call it Cap. Creativity, abundance and pleasure. So it's a pretty good chakra, right? But it's actually the chakra. Many of us have imbalances, and when it leads, when it's out of balance, we have, you know, Relationship issues, sexual issues, et cetera. So I really love balancing it through dance and connecting to my yoni and, you know, tapping back into my central energy. So it's in charge of connection, and it's connected to the color orange. Our solar plexus chakra is in our gut, it's our stomach, and it's our sense of identity. It's our willpower. So it's actually created when we're about 2 years old, when we're like, I want this. I want that. Give me that. It's mine. We're actually creating our solar plexus. So it's actually important to honor a child that is going through that because the child is trying to essentially assert who they are and what they want. So it's important for us to give that child options in that moment so they realize that your. Your solar plexus is important. You're able to make decisions. You're able to decide what it is that you want. But the options that you give them can all be things that you actually want. But it's important to give them the idea that they're. They're choosing things for themselves, especially when the solar plexus is being built. And when that doesn't happen, that's when we start to get egotistical, authoritarian, overbearing control. This is all an overreaction of the solar plexus chakra. And when it's depleted, we think that we're not worthy of getting what we want. We're not worthy of having our own needs. We don't even know who we are. We're so connected to the needs of others, so it's depleted. So each chakra can be excess and depleted. And it's connected to the color yellow moving into the heart chakra, anahata chakra, that's connected to love. And not sexual love, but love. Love for all things you know? Do you ever wake up? Sometimes you're just like, I feel so in love with. Just like life is a heartgasm. Have you ever had a heartgasm before? Well, that's right there in the heart chakra. So that's how we're supposed to feel every single day. We're supposed to just be like, oh, yes, I'm here. I'm doing it. I'm alive. I'm living my Dharma. I'm in love with all that is coming my way. And so much goodness is awaiting me, and so much goodness is already here. And I'm so grateful for what has happened. That is the heart chakra, right? There. So as a society, we've really closed down our heart chakras. Most of us closed them down when we were very young kids, when our first heartbreak were our own parents, our parents letting us down for whatever reason. It could have just been something as small as mom was supposed to pick me up from school and she forgot, I can't love, I can't trust. Or it could have been, you know, dad walked out on our family. And then later in life, it reoccurs again with our first heartbreak. I can't be loved. I'm not deserving of love. No one can love me the way that I need. No one will love me as much as I love them. The patterns, the conditionings, limiting beliefs. And the heart chakra closes. And such a sad chakra to close, because when the heart chakra closes, you no longer feel connected to others. You no longer feel connected to yourself. People with closed heart chakras, they tend to sulk. It's like their bodies are like caving in to protect their hearts. And the way to open it is to literally back bend and to expand the heart. That's why in yoga, we do back bends. At the end of each practice. There's always back bend series. And that's to open the heart chakra so you can feel love. So if you're feeling like, oh, my heart's been broken so many times, I can't love, I can't trust. Do the back bends. It's gonna blast your heart chakra open. And just to meditate with your heart. My meditations these days are always hands on my heart. That's what I want to feel connected to. I don't want to astral project. I don't want to go visit the aliens. I want to connect to my heart. That's the mission I'm trying to get to right here. Because the heart has more and more to feel. And I know personally and I think for most of us, we're not feeling at 100%. Most of us are not feeling because we're afraid to feel. We're afraid of what's going to happen. If I really let myself feel in this moment, whether it's feeling a shadow aspect of sadness and hurt and pain and really feeling that. But if we can't feel that, we can't feel the happiness and the bliss and the joy. And I've caught myself. I don't know if this ever happened to you, but something good happens. And I'm like, oh, cool. And it's almost like I'm not Really that happy about it? I'm not really that excited about it. And I'm like, wait, why am I? I wanted this thing for so long, I worked at it for so hard and now it's just here and I'm like, oh, cool. And it's not that I'm chill af. I mean, it's that too. But it's because at some level my heart and all of our heart chakras are closed because our society, you know, as a kid, you get so excited about things and teachers like, sit down, calm down, be quiet, and then you suppress. So the heart chakra is just a really big one that as society, we need to open up our hearts and just allow ourselves to feel. And most of us, we can tell you exactly what we're thinking, but we can't tell you exactly what we're feeling. You know, a thought, I could be like, I'm anxious with a tinge of excitement and a little bit angry and, you know, but like feeling, it's like, what does that feel like in my body? How can I connect to that and to just notice the tinges, the sensations? Like, I feel like, you know, sometimes I wake up and I'm feeling a little bit off and then I'm like, I don't have time for that, gotta start working, gotta go to my bar class, whatever it is. I kind of like snide it aside instead of like really sitting into like, why do I feel like this today? And it could be, you know, something that happened to me the day before could have been my dream last night. It could have been something I've been suppressing and not looking at. It could be my menstrual cycle. It could be a lot of things. But to really look at the subtleties of how you're feeling, this is a very important part of following the yogic path. Moving into our throat chakras, our chakras of expression, allowing us to share our truth, to say what it is that we want to say without feeling apologetic about, is governed by the color blue. If you haven't noticed. Everything I do is blue. Eat, feel, fresh, covers blue. Yoga Path is all blue. My website, everything is blue. I don't know why, I just love this color. Well, I assume it's because it's related to the throat chakra that I'm just naturally so drawn to it. And the throat chakra is the chakra. Throat and third eye are my two most powerful chakras that I've really running with in, in this lifetime. So it's Your idea to take a thought and to express it into communication. And then your third eye, it's your ability to see the unseen, to use your intuition to notice the subtleties. And this is really what all of the chakras, they're coming to balance. So we can work with the third eye. The third eye can't open until all other chakras are in balance. And that is allowing us to see the higher vision, to connect to the Atman, to connect to the true, the deities that exist around us. That only happens when we open our third eye. And then naturally we receive downloads from our crown. So third eye is governed by the color indigo, and our crown is also indigo, but clear as well. Now, your crown chakra is actually right above the top of your head, and it allows the wisdom of the universe to channel through you. So when you're getting a download, when you're getting an idea, when you're just in a flow state right now, crown chakra is wide open. I'm receiving this knowledge and I'm just transmuting it. It's working from my crown, through my throat, into my heart, going to you guys, embodying it. So a yoga path is to balance your chakras. It's to work with your koshas, the layers outside of your body. I've done a full podcast episode all about koshas. Again. Google Highest self podcast koshas to dive into that. We have our physical bodies, our energetic bodies, our breath bodies, bliss bodies, and these are all like frequencies outside of us. And when we pick up on someone's energy, we're actually picking up on their koshas, the layers outside their bodies. So in a yogic path, we also dive into the deities. So the deities are the gods and the goddesses I write about the ones that are specifically from Vedic and Hindu tradition, because that is where the Vedas came from. But there are gods and goddesses from all around the world, from Roman to Greek to African, Brazilian, Egyptian, everything between. So in the guidebook, there's a chapter for all of this that you know gives you the meaning of each card. So in the guidebook, there are explanations of what each deity brings you when you pull the card. But I'm going to give you a brief description of who these deities are. So with the goddesses, we have several goddesses that we've talked about on this podcast that are central to Rose Gold goddesses by membership community, that we embody a new goddess archetype each month. So learn more about that@rosegoldgoddesses.com but we have Parvati, the goddess of devotion, love and yoga. We have Saraswati, the goddess of creativity, intuition and insight. Kali, the goddess of destruction, dissolution and ecstasy. We've got Lakshmi, goddess of abundance, fortune and beauty. Radha, goddess of passionate love and longing. Durga, goddess of inner strength and protection. Bhuvanashwati, goddess of space and infinite possibilities. Dhumavati, goddess of disappointment and letting go. Chinamasta, goddess of radical self transcendence. Lalita Sundari, goddess of erotic spirituality. And then we have the gods. Ganesha, God of new beginnings and removal of obstacles. I love Ganesha, also known as Ganapati, if you've heard him in many mantras. Om Ganapatiye namah. That's Dikanesha, son of Shiva, and Shakti Parvati, AKA Krishna, God of compassion and love. Brahma, God of creation. Shiva, God of destruction and rebirth. Hanuman, God of courage. So we have cards dedicated to each of these deities that you'll be able to pull and work with. So when you pull from these cards, you'll be able to see, whose medicine do I need, what do I need to call upon, who's guiding me in this time of my life? And these deities will provide you guidance. Each of them has their own nectar, their own medicine, their own wisdom. So, for example, you could ask, what message do my spirit guides have for me at this time? And maybe you pull the Durga card and it's telling you to go for strength and use your power and stand up for what it is that you really want. Or maybe you pulled the Krishna card and it's telling you to, you know, move through life with more playfulness and fun and, you know, movement. That's what Krishna is always dancing with this flute. And I explain, I give meanings for each of these in the guidebook that the deck comes with. So I love it because you're learning about these things without, like, sitting and reading a textbook on it. It's just a really intuitive way for you to learn more about these beautiful deities, chakras, koshas, the yoga, sutras, all of these things through the meanings of the cards. So we also have cards in different Vedic spirituality topics like Dharma, which is a topic that my next book is about and I love speaking about, which is your divine purpose, your soul's reason of incarnation. So if you pulled the Dharma card, then you know that your spirit guides are telling you it is that you need to do your life's work at this time. The Kriya card, that's when life Feels like flow. It's moving like a river. Graciously, you're on the path to your Dharma and doors are opening up for you. The Karma card, it's the sum of one's actions. So sometimes karma can feel a little bit like a setback, but it's actually protection bringing you towards your dharma, the atman, the infinite aspect of the soul. Buddhi, the inner wisdom, intellect. Buddha, the one who is aware. So Buddha, as we know, that was not his actual name. He became a Buddha from practicing meditation and becoming spiritually aware. So he became a Buddha. So all of us have the capability to become a Buddha if we truly connect to the yogic path. That's some real, real perseverance on the yogic path there. So I also have a section dedicated to Ayurveda. So there are cards dedicated to Ayurvedic topics as well as the meanings to them. So we have a card dedicated to vata, which I am the person on that card, Pitta, kapha, as well as the gunas. The gunas are the qualities. So satsva, which is purity, clarity. We always want to be sattvic, to just be, you know, crystalline, clear of what it is that we want without the negative energy bogging us down, which is more dynamic, aggression, energy. It's kind of pitta and tamas, which is dullness, sluggishness, tiredness, inertia, which is not really what we want, but. And sometimes maybe we want a little bit of hibernation. So if you pull the card upright, it has one meaning. If you pull it upside down, it has another. So it could mean either prana, which is the life force, the subtle life force, the breath. Ojas, which is the subtle essence of, well, being. When someone has a glimmer to their skin and they're glowing and they look just so beautiful. That's ojas, Tejas, which is intelligence, courage, someone that, you know, really thinks, and they're sharp and they go after what it is they want. That's tejas right there. And they have this, you know, bright look in their eyes. You know, that spunky person who's they're coming up with something smart. That's tejas. So all of these are cards in the deck that you'll be able to work with. You'll be able to ask questions. And these cards can be the answers that you pull, which is really, really special. And there's no deck in the world that's like this. And we also dive into the yoga sutras. So this is a really good Deck. If you're someone again who loves yoga, or maybe you're doing yoga teacher training or you have a friend that's doing yoga teacher training and you want to gift this to them, this makes an awesome gift to any yogi in your life, including yourself. So we have the eight stages of yoga, which are the yamas, the yamas and the niyamas. We have asana, which is one of the eight stages, which is actually meaning to sit in stillness. So we talked about how yoga, we think of asana as movement, as postures, but actually the word asana means to sit in stillness. So the reason why we do these movements and postures is because we were actually meant to tire our bodies out so we can finally sit in meditation. I do believe that society's needs have kind of changed because back in the day they were farmers and they were moving around a lot. But today we're not really, we're more sedentary. So I do think we need more kind of movement and that's why yoga has shifted to become so much more movement oriented. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing because we need it because again, we're sitting around all day but we can't let go of what yoga is really about, which is the meditation, which is the stillness which you cultivate at the end of your yoga practice. There's a card for pranayama which is the control of breath. I love doing alternate nostril breathing, breathing. Inhale through one nostril, exhale through the other, inhaling through that same one. I teach you a guided meditation when you purchase the deck and you leave a review. You can just email me the review to Sahara Eat feel fresh.com and I send you the guided meditation that I recorded that you can work with this deck. So it's a pranayama and meditation and then active card pulling to teach you how to pull the cards, how to work with the deck, what the meanings mean, etc. So I love the pranayama practice. I teach you in that meditation because it's the one that I actually practice every day. So to get that absolutely free, you just leave a review for the deck. You should purchase the deck first and then leave a review for it if you enjoyed it, of course, whatever it is that your heart feels like saying and send me a screenshot and email it over to me@saharaatfieldfresh.com and I'll send you back that guided meditation. It's 20 minute long meditation. We have pratyahara which is control of the senses. So that's all about. In yoga, it's all about overcoming the monkey mind. Because the monkey mind wants to do a million things and go a million places and be here and do that. And it's to control the senses. You know, whether it's you wanting to do things or eat, you know, stimulating things, drink coffee, have this or even stimulation in life, you know, the drama, whatever it is, it's to let go of anything that is taking you back from that total stillness, that total presence. And this is the practice of pratyahara. So if you ever pull that card, that's what it is telling you at this time. Then we have Dharana, which is all about single, focused concentration. So to get what it is that you want to fulfill your dharma, you need to concentrate. And this doesn't mean that you won't be able to live your life. But I think a lot of us, we fear that level of concentration that it takes to really take our ideas off the ground. And if you pull upon the Dharana card, it's reminding you, like right now, just concentrate, just fully commit. Just dive into this. Because if you can dive into it, you're going to reap such incredible rewards and you'll fall into the kriya and things will feel so much more effortless and easy. We have the Diana, which is the concentration and meditation with the intention to know the truth. So this is the stage that comes after. After you concentrate, you actually transcend. It's not about doing the Dharma anymore. It's more about just knowing the overall truth. And that actually feeds the Dharma. So instead of what can I do next? It's how can I connect to the overall truth? And this is the next stage of yoga, the next stage of transcendence. So it's to become fully immersed with what it is that you are seeking. And Diana can also come from concentrating in what you're doing. But it's. You don't need to concentrate anymore. It's about merging. So when the dancer is just in such dance that they're not even thinking about, they're not concentrating on need to keep dancing. They are the dance. The singer is the song, the writer is the book. There's almost no difference between the two. This is Dhyana, so total merging, that concentration is no longer even needed. And then you experience samadhi. So samadhi is when you're joined in all aspects. Your physical, spiritual, mental, emotional bodies are all connected. And you're experiencing the supreme bliss, the high consciousness, the enlightenment of who you are. Your human consciousness has become one with cosmic consciousness. And your soul has realized that it is far more than a mind and a body. So this is the reunion, soul and spirit, with the universe. And it's such a beautiful card to pull. I also have a card for Kundalini. So Kundalini is the serpent like energy that exists at the base of your spine, that rises up your body, that feeds your chakras and allows you to tap into the innate psychic abilities that we all have. And this is Kundalini Rising. It's such a. One of my favorite cards. It's a friend of mine, Rosie Acosta. You may recognize her from the Highest Self podcast. But beautiful card of her sitting in meditation with this snake moving up her chakras and the chakras all lit up. And just such a beautiful reminder to all of us that we can heal ourselves and rebalance our chakras simply by connecting to that Kundalini. I also share another style of yoga, which is Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti is the path of devotion. It's the path of love. So when you were singing, when we're chanting, you know, the mantra is kirtan. So it's Bhakti Yoga. And it's not just about kirtan, but it's also anything that is devotion. And I think in our society we're so far from that and we're moving back in towards altars and rituals and things that, that allow us to, you know, offer to the divine. And that's why I love working with the goddesses and Rose Gold Goddess. Whether it's, you know, having my goddess statues up or lighting candles or Palo Santo, having my crystals, etc, but just devoting to something that's greater than me. The selfless path of Bhakti is such a beautiful path to walk. And then I share about Tantra yoga, which is another card which is the path of liberation. Tantra. Tantra actually means liberation. So it's to move past the dualistic nature of the mind that sees things as good, bad, right, wrong, black, white, and to just experience totality, masculine, feminine, Shiva Shakti, yin yang, without good or bad, without judgment. And that can have a sensual practice to it. But tantra is something that's so much greater than just sex. It's really the balance of the feminine and masculine energies within all of us and all of things. I also have a card for Satya, which is one of the yamas, one of the the paths of yoga on truthfulness. There's a friend of mine, Alison Charles who's the girl in the card? So Satya is all about stepping into your truth, stepping into who you are, being honest. Where can I show up more authentically in my life? How can I live my life in my absolute truth? Are my relationships in alignment with who I am? And I at this moment? What masks am I wearing? What can I do to connect further into my truth? So this is such a beautiful card to pull. So we have some more. I mean, I can go into all of them, but when you get the deck, you're going to see them. But we have ahimsa, non violence, svadhaya, self study, santosha, contentment, tapas, self discipline. And those are the yogic cards. So we've kind of of dove into all of the cards that you're going to see when you get a yogic path. But I teach you how to work with the deck, with the path, with all of it when you get the book. So it's going to come with 54 cards, has this beautiful box that you're going to open up. It's just such sacred illustration things that I channeled. I actually wrote this entire deck in India. So it's illustrations that came through, such as the mudras, the. The flowers, the. Just the shapes. Funnily enough, the flowers ended up being very pink. And I actually never even thought about the color of the flowers when we were designing the cards. And then in my wedding, I was supposed to get these very pale pink flowers. And when I, like, was walking down the aisle, they were like super bright pink, like a hot pink almost. And I was like, what the hell? And then after I got the deck sent to me for the first time, like the published deck, and they were the exact flowers from the deck. So Spirit wanted my wedding to be filled with the flowers that you're going to see that are on every single card in the box. Those are actually the flowers that ended up showing up at my wedding unannounced. So it's so beautiful how Spirit works. But the illustrations are beyond beautiful. They're illustrated by my dear friend Danielle Noel of Star Child Tarot. You may recognize her from her deck, Star Child Tarot, Moon Child Tarot. And they are these beautiful collages that really honor the angels, ancient sculptures, the ancient paintings. You know, for us, we were like, we don't want to depict deities like gods and goddesses that have existed for thousands of years with humans. It's almost like not honoring them the way that they were originally intended to because they are otherworldly, they are mystical. Divine beings as well as humans. So we decided to actually use the original sculptures and paintings from the Vedic times. So when you go through this deck and you look through this guidebook, those pictures that you're seeing are the original sculptures and paintings that the Rishis in the Vedic times created for us to depict these gods and goddesses. So it's so magical to be able to really have the original, you know, source coming through, but then to also merge it with this beautiful collage art that brings in. I mean, every single card has. Has such incredible meaning. And I think that when you work with this card and how I do it is when you pull the card, first ask your intuition, before even looking at the card, what does this card have to say? So I recommend. The process I do is I spread them out, I sage them, palo santo them, clear their energy, sit in meditation, ask myself what it is that I'm trying to seek an answer from. Connect to my intuition, my highest self, my spirit guides. And then I ask the question, and I share with you in the book how to ask the question, what kind of questions to ask, etc. And then before I look at the card, I ask my intuition what the card has to say. I shared this with you step by step. And then from there, when I look at the card, I don't immediately go and read the guidebook, but rather I let my intuition tell me. So I look at the imagery in this deck, and because we put a lot of subtle details in there for you, little things that signify the meaning of this card. So this is an intuitive practice for you to really look at the card and look at, okay, what emotion am I getting from this? What do I feel when I look at this card? What are these little. You know, the more you look at the card, because it's such beautiful and intricate collage, you're going to notice another detail. Detail, another layer, another dimension. And the more you work with these cards, you're actually gonna find more things later on. So this is why it's like, it kind of builds and it layers on the fun don't stop. So after I've really looked at the card and I've noticed, okay, what energy am I getting from this card? Then I open up the book and I read what the card has to say. And I wrote upright and reverse. So if you pull the card upright, it has one meaning, in reverse, it has another. And this is the light and the shadow aspect, because sometimes our guides are warning us, and sometimes there are things we need to change. Too. So I recommend working with both an upright and reverse practice. So this deck, honestly, even if I did not write it, is the most beautiful deck I've ever seen in my life. It truly is for the person who loves ancient wisdom, loves yoga, Ayurveda, chakras, deities, connecting to the sky, this ancient wisdom that has existed since the beginning of time, that is so earth based, so real, but at the same time so mystical and otherworldly. So you can find these cards available on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles wherever decks are sold and if you leave a review for them and you just send me over an email, a screenshot of it to Saharaatfieldfresh.com I will send you over the guided meditation that I I created for working with this deck, along with spreads that I created so you could work with this deck in new ways, asking specific questions and putting them in specific orders and just having a more elaborate practice with your deck. You know, maybe it's your first time working with the deck and this is very new to you. Or maybe you love decks and you want to have some cool new spreads that I've channeled for you. All you have to do is just leave a review, email it over to me@saharaethillfresh.com and I will send you over the meditation to work with the deck along with the the spreads. I am so excited for these sacred cards to make their way to your hands. I am so excited for the downloads that these cards will bring you to come through and I'm so excited for the global change that you're going to create when you have that clear guidance coming from your highest self. Namaste. Dancing like a dungeon Like a dungeon.