Even in Stillness, She Moves: Healing, Surrender & the Living Shakti Sadhana

When Injury Arrives, the Real Practice Begins

A miscalculated step. A torn ligament and a cracked bone. A cast that stills what was once in motion.

Injury can feel like an interruption—like life’s sacred rhythm has been paused. But what if stillness is not an absence, but a portal? What if the medicine lies not in movement, but in how we meet ourselves in stillness?

Shakti doesn’t only dance in fire and action.

She softens into surrender.

She swells within silence.

She heals in the hush between breaths.

KNOW. EMBODY. LIVE. Through the Healing Journey

As I heal from this recent injury, I return to the heart of my practice: Living Shakti Sādhana, a path guided by three interwoven threads—KNOW, EMBODY, and LIVE.

KNOW (Jñāna): The Causal Body – Kāraṇa Śarīra

This is a time of deep svādhyāya—study, reflection, remembrance. I immerse myself in the sacred texts, in the mantras I have known and taught for years, now meeting them with vulnerability. Knowledge is not abstract. It’s alive, and in these still moments, it nourishes the root of who I am.

“Śaṅkarācārya says: jñāna eva mokṣaḥ — knowledge alone is liberation.”

EMBODY: The Subtle Body – Sūkṣma Śarīra

Though physical movement is limited, the breath moves. Prāṇa, a vehicle of Sahkti, still flows. Subtle practices like mantra japa, visualizing yantras, and tuning into inner sound (nāda) sustain the aliveness of the energetic body. Healing is not passive. It is a tender, conscious participation with life.

LIVE: The Physical Body – Sthūla Śarīra

Though my body is in recovery, I honour it not in frustration, but reverence. Each small motion, each ache, each shift is a gesture of devotion. I remember that yoga is not the pose—it is the presence.

This Healing Time Is Not a Detour. It Is the Practice.

“Even in stillness, She moves.”

“Even in pain, She pulses with life.”

“Even in waiting, She awakens.”

This time is a return. A re-alignment to the deeper current of sādhana. To the sacred feminine wisdom that doesn’t push, but unfolds. Doesn’t strive, but receives.

Mantra for Healing: sarva-maṅgala māṅgalye

I share with you this beloved prayer—a mantra that evokes the most auspicious, most benevolent, and nurturing form of the Goddess (my offering below):

sarva-maṅgala māṅgalye śive sarvārtha-sādhike

śaraṇye tryambake gauri nārāyaṇi namo’stu te

Translation:

Salutations to the auspicious one, who is the source of all auspiciousness, who fulfills all desires, who is refuge and support, the three-eyed one, the radiant Goddess. O Nārāyaṇī, I bow to You.

Let it wash over you. Let it become breath. Let it become prayer.

Whether you’re in motion or in stillness, in ease or in healing—your sādhana is always available. The practice does not abandon us.

It becomes us.

May you remember that Living Shakti flows through all seasons of life.

Even this. Especially this.

With love and presence,

Nora