The truth of asana is not in the silhouette. It’s in the movement that carries us toward and away from the shape. It’s in the breath that steadies or stutters or the patterns we’ve practiced for years, long before we ever stepped onto a sticky mat.
The Soft Art of Subtraction
There’s a funny thing that can happen when life finally offers us a rare bit of breathing room. Retirement, a quieter season, a shift in what tugs at our days. Suddenly there’s space. A clearing. And many of us, raised in the great tradition of noble overextension, react to that clearing with a kind of internal alarm: Quick! Fill it before someone notices!
