As you read this, you’re aware of your breath, smoothing it out, noticing if your belly is too tight, shoulders too high, jaw too hard. These are choices we make, to harbor tension in our bodies or release it. Relax. Maybe it’s that simple. Maybe we’ve confused tension with strength. Breathe, soften ... show your heart. Right action occurs naturally when not coerced toward a pre-determined outcome. Don’t insist poses fit concepts of what you think poses should resemble. We flow, loose and natural, demanding nothing from the pose, allowing rather its mystery to emerge from behind each breath. Breathe, with the shoulders at ease. Feel the difference when we’re not gripping. Out of relaxation comes a power that’s balanced and useful, not lopsided and greedy.

We’re here, together, to reflect life’s preciousness, to dance and delight in our shifting forms. To celebrate being alive at every stage, without clinging to a particular age or mindset or set of material circumstances. The practice of yoga becomes synonymous with the flow of life.