06/12/2026
People often think of yoga as being a visible practice, more about shapes made with the body. This way of thinking is also hierarchical: some shapes are better than others.
I see yoga as more about the inner experience. What you feel when you do the postures and practices matters more than what things look like from the outside, and the experience can be subtle and deeply personal.
Patanjali gave us some guiding principles. For one thing, we're looking for a balance between steadiness and ease, structure and flow, effort and sweetness.
There's a lot of play that can happen within a pose, just to see how it changes the inner experience. An example of this is noticing what your breath is doing, and what happens if you use breath imagery or breathe in different ways.
Other examples are shifting the positions of your limbs, fingers, eyes, etc.
It can even be as subtle as shifting your attention within the posture or practice. What happens if you focus HERE?
It's important to note that none of this, in my opinion, is about getting it RIGHT. It's about turning up in the moment and getting real about what is.
We learn the forms, and then we get to experience and play and explore within the forms. Often that's invisible work, but that doesn't make it less powerful.
