Perspectives

Learning to Pause is often the hardest part of self-care. We can be surprisingly willing to override our own discomfort because we think we should stretch farther, hold longer, or keep forcing our way through tension. Pushing ourselves into pain can become a form of violence toward our own bodies. By practicing learning to pause, we step off the accelerator, align with the yogic principle of ahimsa (non-harming), and finally begin responding to our physical cues with genuine