Navigating the Transition: Integrating and Consolidating Your Meditation Practice

From Completion to Simplicity

A Transition into the January Laya Yoga Sadhana

The 120-day Sodarshan Chakra Kriya cycle is now complete.

For many, the end of a long collective practice brings a mixture of relief, uncertainty, and quiet space. The daily rhythm that carried the practice releases, and something simpler — and often less structured — takes its place.

This space matters.

Before beginning anything new, it is worth allowing the system to register what has ended. Long-form practices work beneath the surface, and their effects often continue to integrate once the container dissolves. Silence, rest, and unstructured time are not absences; they are part of the process.

There is no requirement to move immediately into another discipline.There is no need to carry momentum forward through effort.

A different quality of practice

In January, a Laya Yoga sadhana will begin.

Where Sodarshan Chakra Kriya works through rhythm, breath, and circulation, Laya Yoga works through softening and dissolution. It asks less of the breath and even less of the will.

The movement here is inward — not towards activation, but towards settling.

Laya Yoga does not build energy in the same way. It allows energy to reorganise itself. The emphasis is not on doing, but on allowing attention to rest and absorb. Over time, this supports nervous system regulation, emotional steadiness, and a quieter relationship to thought.

If the Sodarshan Chakra Kriya practice cultivated capacity and creative flow, Laya Yoga invites that capacity to settle into stillness.

Timing and season

Beginning in mid-January, the Laya Yoga sadhana arrives at a different point in the year.

Winter supports inwardness. The nervous system naturally seeks rest, integration, and simplification. Laya Yoga works with this seasonal intelligence rather than against it.

This is not a practice of intensity or effort. It is a practice of patience, trust, and consistency.

Choosing with care

Participation in the January Laya Yoga sadhana is an invitation, not an assumption.

Some may feel called to continue within a held container. Others may need time without structure. Both responses are valid. Laya Yoga is not something to rush into or collect.

If you do choose to join, the commitment is similar in length, but different in quality. The work is quieter, less directive, and deeply cumulative. It rewards steadiness rather than ambition.

Before deciding, allow a few days of space. Notice what remains from the completed practice. Notice what you are drawn toward — or away from.

A gentle threshold

Transitions matter. Ending well is as important as beginning.

Whether or not you step into the January sadhana, allow this moment to be a threshold rather than a bridge you cross quickly. The value of long practice lies not only in what is done, but in how it is released.

If and when you return to structured practice, may it be from a place of clarity rather than momentum.

Return to what is simple.Let the rest take care of itself.

Integration and Consolidation of the Meditation