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Most people quit yoga in the first three weeks. I have watched it happen many times. Someone comes to class full of intention — they want the calm, the flexibility, the feeling of being in their body again. They show up for the first class, then the second. By week three, something gets in the way. A busy week. A skipped session. And then, quietly, the practice dissolves. This is not a failure of willpower. It is a failure of understanding what yoga actually is — and how habi

I want to tell you something that most yoga teachers won't. Most yoga injuries are preventable. Not all — the body is complex and life is unpredictable. But the majority of the shoulder strains, lower back flare-ups, and knee complaints I hear from students could have been avoided with one thing: a basic understanding of how the body actually works. This is why anatomy is not a dry academic subject to me. It is the difference between a practice that heals and a practice that

Sthira Sukham Asanam. Three Sanskrit words. Eleven characters. One of the most important sentences ever written about the human body. This is Yoga Sutra 2.46, written by the sage Patanjali over two thousand years ago. It is usually translated as: 'Posture should be steady and comfortable.' But like most things in the Sanskrit tradition, the translation only opens the door. The room behind it is much larger. What Sthira really means Sthira is often translated as 'steady' or 's

There is a moment I return to often. I was teaching a class with a group of seniors — ages ranging from 62 to 78. One student, a retired schoolteacher, had told me before class that she hadn't moved her body intentionally in over three years. She sat on her mat with a kind of polite uncertainty, as though she wasn't sure she belonged there. By the end of that hour, something had shifted. Not dramatically — she didn't suddenly touch her toes or float into a balance pose. But h

Viparita Karani I want to tell you something that might surprise you. I did not start yoga in a studio. I did not discover it through an app, a YouTube video, or a friend who swore by hot yoga. I started yoga on the floor of my home in Chennai, Tamil Nadu — a coastal city in South India — before I was old enough to know it had a name. What yoga looked like in Chennai My family didn't call it 'practice.' They didn't call it anything. It was simply how life was organised. We sa

Sthira Sukham Asanam. — Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 2.46 Posture should be steady and comfortable. Not perfect. Not extreme. Steady. Comfortable. I have taught this sutra many times. But there was a period in my life when I truly had to live it — not on a mat, but in the slowest, most humbling way possible. Padmasana The moment everything stopped I injured my hips. For a yoga teacher, the hips are everything. When my hips gave out, my routines stopped. My movement stopped. In some