09/09/2026
There is something extraordinary about finally reaching a posture you have worked towards for a long time.
But listening to Laruga this week during the afternoon sessions, we were reminded that the posture itself is not really the destination.
What excites her even more is when the tone of someone’s practice begins to change — when it becomes quieter, steadier, more concentrated, more meditative.
And perhaps that is what makes an advanced movement like this so fascinating.
To go deeper, we first need roots. Roots are discipline.
We need breath.
We need heat.
We need consistency.
And then, little by little, we meet our resistance.
Laruga Glaser spoke about the practice as a catalyst: a place where patterns, fears and unconscious tendencies can rise to the surface. Not so that we can fight them, but so that we can see them and become more skillful at moving through them.
Step by step by step. Not too fast, not too slow. Nice and steady, leaning in.
So perhaps the beauty of catching the calves is not simply that the hands finally reach them.
Perhaps it is everything we encounter on the way there.
Laruga, drawing not only on decades of teaching but on the direct, embodied knowledge of your own outstanding practice, what does this work develop in the practitioner — physically, mentally and on a deeper level?
