17/10/2026
I did not set out to change. I set out to stretch.
My back was stiff from sitting too long, and I wanted an hour of quiet in a loud week. That was the plan.
The body responded slowly. A little more range here, a little less resistance there. I kept going.
Then I noticed something I had not expected.
A comment that would once have hooked me passed through. I listened to someone without planning my reply. And in the middle of a held pose, when my legs burned and my breath grew thin, my mind had nothing to say.
I did not know how much I had missed that quiet.
Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar wrote, “Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
The job, the traffic and the people around me are much the same. But there is sometimes a little more space between what happens and how I respond.
I still come to practise for my body. I also come to observe what practice reveals, one breath at a time.
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