Some days, happiness seems like a myth—like it ran off and disappeared without any forwarding address. But yoga philosophy holds it never departed at all. Lives the Be Well Academy Anandamaya Kosha course, the happiness body, deep inside, behind muscle, breath, cognition, and intuition. Like the brilliant center of a cosmic onion, your peaceful core of pleasure hides beneath the commotion of existence.

Perfecting your to-do list or doom-scrolling won’t help you get at it. It begins when you sit motionless, turn inside, and inhale as though you had nowhere to be. Pranayama releases the mental static; every inhalation lifts a cloudy veil, every exhale lets another concern drop away like old paint chips.

Your tuning fork is your Mantra. One constant om. Another. Perhaps initially it feels strange, chanting in your kitchen by yourself. But shortly the sensations warm your chest and something unclenshes in your belly. Like sunshine passing through a curtain gap, peace begins to slink in silently.

Meditative practice brings you closer yet. Body light, eyes hardly open, thoughts free. Though ideas float in and out like clouds, somewhere in that calm a flutter of happiness arrives without any explanation. It is contentment, unbothered and simple, not excitement.

The trip is completed by Yoga Nidra. The body freezes while awareness floats as you slink between sleep and consciousness. You pass past stories, past worries until you find yourself seated in the calm center where happiness just *is*. Not even a hint of fireworks or effort. Simply easy.

There is not loudness to this happiness. It does not give you rainbows when punching. It hums under the surface, enhancing the taste of tea and shrinking concerns. You have not to “achieve” it. One breath at a time, you only meet it.

The Anandamaya Kosha tells you: joy is a layer; it is not a reward; it will not clean the mess of life. One you have always carried about. It has merely been waiting for you to reach silence sufficient for hearing it.