Notes & Reflections

Walk into any yoga class and you’ll see bodies moving through similar shapes as Pilates, calisthenics, or stretching routines. So what makes it yoga? We might begin our practice with conventional intentions—strength, flexibility, stretch, mobility, stamina, calming, restoration. But we can also shift our approach: What if the practice is really about becoming aware of the state of our body? A tightness here, heaviness there, tension holding somewhere. Can we get a sense of wh