We can count on our body - Most direct and accessible place to begin

Like climbing a mountain, there are many ways up—different methods, beliefs, and lineages within the vast world of yoga.

I’m grateful you’ve found something in what I share that resonates with your own path.

At its core, yoga is a way of becoming familiar with your own lived experience.

The body is often the most direct and accessible place to begin.

And of course, the physical body is never separate from the mind, energy, and deeper layers of experience often described as the 5 koshas.

When anger or irritation arises, it is rarely just a “thought” or an “emotion” in isolation.

It often begins in the body—heat in the stomach, tightness in the chest, a sense of intensity moving through.

From there, thoughts begin to form about how to release that energy, sometimes outward toward others, sometimes inward toward ourselves.

In that moment, there is an opportunity: a pause.

Not to suppress what is present,and not to act from it immediately,but simply to see it clearly.

This is the space of witnessing—where experience is neither grasped nor denied, but simply acknowledged as it is. 

From there, action becomes conscious rather than reactive—sometimes speaking firmly, sometimes stepping away, directing the energy to get things done, sometimes letting go with ease and eating that chocolate.

And outside of these inner practices, life continues to move.

How lucky are we to get reminded by our own body.

These opportunities to choose consciously.

And even make mistakes even if we took that pause.