There’s something clarifying about being brought back to the bones of things.
Not in theory—no, theory rarely gets under the skin—but in the lived, daily dialogue of breath and bone and the long, slow return to oneself. Recently, life offered me a stark reminder of what it means to practice rather than perform. It invited me to inhabit what I’ve been teaching all these years with fresh ears, deeper humility, and a body tuned more sensitively to truth than to ambition.
I’ve been moving through a period of healing that demanded I show up, day by day, for my own well-being—not with grit and force, but with attunement, patience, and the kind of honest attention that functional movement, mindfulness, and somatic awareness actually require.
In this quieter terrain, I’ve been reminded—viscerally—that yoga was never meant to be a spectacle. It was never about acrobatics or aesthetics or pushing the body to contort itself in ways that might look impressive but feel hollow. It was—and remains—a practice of remembering how to live in this body with kindness and clarity.
What good is a backbend if your back hurts afterward? What good is mindfulness if it only shows up on a square of your social feed, carefully lit and captioned, rather than in the raw, beautiful now of an ordinary Tuesday?
This season has deepened my love for freedom yoga—an approach rooted in deep inner listening, where movement arises not from the idea of what should happen but from the truth of what is happening. It’s where somatic intelligence shines: not as a technique but as a way of being in relationship with your own body, moment to moment. Noticing. Feeling. Responding. Releasing.
This is the quiet revolution I believe in. The one where we return home to ourselves—not to check out, but to tune in.
And if you, too, are feeling the call for that kind of reset, I’ll gently mention that there are still a few spots left for this summer’s Mindful Unplug Retreat at the Feathered Pipe Ranch. It’s a space where we practice exactly this kind of honest embodiment: movement without performance, mindfulness without pretense, presence without pressure.
You’re warmly invited.
