Today, as I sat in meditation, a realization dawned upon me. This body, this vessel, has been walking a spiritual path for over half a century. And before it dissolves into the vastness of eternal wisdom, I feel called to share something with you—an insight, a whisper from the depths of experience, for whatever it may be worth.

There is a profound difference between the external and the internal in spiritual practice. Look around—yoga classes everywhere, endless techniques demonstrated by spiritual teachers on YouTube, countless methods of meditation, breathwork, and movement. We follow, we imitate, we try to absorb the wisdom of those who have walked before us. But in the ancient times, the Masters who first brought forth these practices had no one to copy. They had no external guide. Instead, they had to tap directly into the source, allowing wisdom to arise from within.

And this is what many seekers today may be missing. The essence of yoga, qigong, mudras, sacred chants, mantras, the vibrational power of secret sounds—they do not exist outside of you. They are not something to be learned from another. They must be remembered, rediscovered, awakened from within. The source of all movement, of all spiritual wisdom, is already within you. And the journey is not one of accumulating more techniques, but of finding your way back to that source.

The invitation, then, is this: turn inward. Allow your practice to emerge from a place beyond imitation. Instead of performing yoga, let yoga arise through you. Instead of doing qigong, let qigong happen from within. When you shift from externally copying movements to internally allowing movement to unfold, something entirely different is born.

I have observed something over many years—mechanically copying qigong movements does not work. It may be beautiful to look at, but it lacks life. True qigong is not a performance; it is an expression of an inner flow, a direct movement of energy arising from the core of one’s being. The same is true for Latihan, the sacred spontaneous meditation from Indonesia—it cannot be taught or copied; it can only happen. The same goes for shaking meditations—you can shake, or you can be shaken. The difference is vast.

This is the essence of all spiritual practice. The real question is: Can you return to your own source? Can you allow your body to move with the wisdom that is already within it? Can you surrender to the divine energy that is waiting to flow through you, unrestricted by learned structures?

If you allow it, the body itself will become the teacher. You will reinvent qigong, yoga, and movement in a way that is uniquely yours. In future teachings, in videos and lessons, I will share ways to listen to the body, to allow the movements to express what needs to be expressed, and to trust the deep wisdom already encoded within you.

The greatest unfolding happens when we stop trying to perform and start allowing the body to be moved by the divine. This is the real practice. Not copying, not imitating—but surrendering to what has always been there. That is what we do on our Youtube channel vedicvibes… Shunyam Adhibhu