Genuine Love
Genuine love: do you already have the tools to sustain it? In Being Present in Love with Troy Hadeed, learn to bring mindful presence off your yoga mat.
About this video
How do we cultivate a genuine love that endures when we step off the yoga mat? In this insightful yoga talk on love, instructor Troy Hadeed reveals that you already possess every tool necessary to remain anchored in your heart, no matter how chaotic the world around you becomes. This session, Season 1, Episode 2 of the series Being Present in Love with Troy Hadeed, serves as a gentle yet profound exploration of mindful love and relationships. Rather than treating mindfulness as an isolated exercise, Troy guides us to understand how to practice genuine love as an active, daily choice. By shifting our focus from external expectations to internal awareness, we begin to recognize the qualities of true love within our own hearts. This is not about striving for an idealized state, but rather about returning to the natural warmth, clarity, and compassion that already exist within us.
Through this short, ten-minute discourse, you will discover how the discipline we cultivate during our physical practice is meant to support an embodied love practice in our daily interactions. When we learn the art of being present in love, we transform how we relate to ourselves and everyone around us. This grounded approach helps us bridge the gap between ancient yogic wisdom and the modern challenges of daily life, offering a clear path toward deeper connection. By recognizing that the qualities of true love are already within us, we can stop searching outside ourselves for fulfillment and instead begin radiating it outward.
Cultivating Presence and Connection
- The Foundation of Presence: Understand how the mindfulness cultivated on your yoga mat directly translates to your daily interactions and relationships.
- Inherent Tools: Recognize that you already possess the essential qualities needed to sustain deep, meaningful connections without needing external validation.
- Active Engagement: Learn practical ways to shift from passive expectation to active, heart-centered participation in your life.
Whether you are looking to deepen your personal practice or bring more harmony to your relationships, this talk offers practical insights to support your journey. Begin your exploration with Troy Hadeed and discover how to bring the warmth of true presence into your everyday life.
About this series
Join Troy Hadeed at his home in Trinidad as he discusses what it really means to live in the present. This two-part series will guide you on how to find presence to experience genuine love.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Gaia?
Gaia is a mission-driven community that empowers the global evolution of consciousness. Our ad-free streaming videos help people explore the limits of our human potential, connect to ourselves, each other, and the universe in new ways, and challenge assumptions that keep us from growing.
Why do I get to watch this for free?
Gaia believes that our content has the potential to change lives. And, a friend of yours does too. Or at least, they thought you specifically would find something interesting about this exact video. Once you’ve seen it, we hope that you’ll consider subscribing some day to watch more like it.
Is it really free to watch this video?
Yes, it is really free to watch this video. You will not have to create an account, start a free trial, or enter any payment info whatsoever.
Ok so how does it work then?
Once you enter your email above, we’ll email you a link. Once you click on it, like renting a video on other video services, you’ll have a limited time window in which you can watch the video. For free. All of it.
Just so you know…
Policies for specific videos change from time to time, and in rare cases, a video you’ve gotten a link for can become no longer “shareable” during your limited time window. When this occurs, the full video will be replaced with a trailer video on your link.
The fine print
You get a free video, we get your email. We’ll use it, responsibly, to send you exciting (we’re excited, anyways) content promotions and information about who we are. You can unsubscribe at any time via in link in any of our emails. Gaia does not and will never sell your email.
How do I watch the full video for free?
-
Enter your e-mail
-
Click “Watch for FREE now“
-
Receive a link in your email
-
WATCH!
You’ve watched 3 free videos this month
For unlimited access to over 8000 videos like these, subscribe now
Join Gaia NowThe email may take a few minutes to arrive, and will be sent from gaia@goto.gaia.com - Remember to check your spam folder.
Wrong e-mail?Edit