Listen to a lecture about one of the most important and yet elusive concepts in the history of yoga: the concept of auspiciousness, or shri. Shri is a teaching about affirmation and offering, about the possibilities of human experience, and about the divine as a reality that nurtures and supports the very foundations of nature. Shri is a goddess, a presence, a power, and a practice. Here we examine what it means to be auspicious, to be in the presence of the auspicious, and why this concept is so critical to the evolution of yogic thinking.