Joy in the Ordinary: Visualizing Yoga Ananda in your Heart

Feb 8
1 min read

Do you believe joy must be earned or achieved or is only for special moments? Your heart knows otherwise. Joy can live quietly alongside routine, responsibility, and even challenge. Our yoga practice helps us recognize joy not as something rare, but as something woven into ordinary moments.

Our mantra for the week is…

My heart remembers joy, even in ordinary moments.

Our journaling prompts are…

What ordinary moments bring me a sense of ease or comfort?
When life feels repetitive, how does my heart respond?
What would change if I trusted joy to be present without conditions?

And our meditation is…a meditation to visualize joy washing over your heart

Sit tall or lie down comfortably. Begin the Three-Part Breath (Dirga - I like to think of this as filling three buckets with breath), inhaling into the belly, ribs, and the chest. Exhale slowly from chest to ribs to belly.

As the breath fills the chest, bring awareness to the circle within the heart space - expanding outward, the heart chakra (anahata).

Visualize breath washing through the heart like a gentle wave.

Silently repeat the mantra on each breath cycle - My heart remembers joy, even in ordinary moments.

Notice how even the ordinary breath can awaken a sense of quiet joy.

Practice for 4–6 minutes, allowing the heart to soften with little to no effort.