Returning to the Body, Returning to Trust

For years, I lived in a body that didn’t feel like home. Disconnected at the time — I only knew I felt exhausted, overwhelmed, often anxious for no reason. I didn’t have the language to articulate what I was feeling.

I wasn’t unsafe, but I also wasn’t settled.

Like many of us, I had learned how to think my way through stress. I read the books. I practiced “mindset.” I tried to manage everything from the neck up.

What I didn’t know yet was this: the body holds everything the mind forgets.

When I found yoga — or rather, when yoga found me, and I let yoga become something different than what I first assumed — I began to understand that healing doesn’t happen by trying harder.

What I didn’t know yet was this: the body holds everything the mind forgets.

It happens by softening, -receiving.

In the breath.
In the slowness.
In this way we let ourselves feel safe in our own rhythm.

These days, I teach and move from that place.

Not performance. Not precision. Just presence.

And presence is something the body understands, - deeply.

If your nervous system feels overworked, let this be a gentle invitation.

You don’t need to go to a studio, and you don’t need “the right clothes”.

There’s no perfect way to begin.

Allow yourself to just lay on the floor.
Feel your back being held against something solid.
Let your breath come and go just as it is.

There’s no perfect way to begin.

There is only beginning — again and again — with gentleness.

Your body knows. Allow yourself to trust it, - once again.

If this spoke to something in you, consider exploring how your body wants to move this week — not for attaining a goal, but for reconnection, and maybe rediscovery.