How to Find Focus in a Distracted Mind: Dharana, Dhyana & Samadhi

Most of us know what it feels like to be somewhere and not really be there, at dinner while thinking about work, listening to someone while already planning what to say next.

In this episode, Pedro closes out the series on Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga with the final three: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, attention, meditation, and the quiet dissolving of the sense of "me watching this happen."

He talks through what concentration actually looks like when you're bad at it (which is most of us), why meditation was never about having no thoughts, and what it means to notice an emotion before it makes your decisions for you.

This isn't abstract philosophy. It's a practical look at where your attention goes every day, and what shifts when you start paying attention to that.

Part of Imagine Yoga Academy's series on the philosophy we learn about in our Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training.

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About Imagine Yoga Academy

We are Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. Since 2012, we've trained over 900 Kundalini Yoga teachers across Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online, always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules.

🌿 Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. 👉 https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/

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Love & strength,

Daniela and Pedro.

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