26/08/2026
Yesterday, a friend in his forties told me that sitting on the floor has become genuinely uncomfortable for him.
It made me think about how easily, in the yoga world, we forget that some movements are not obvious for everyone. When yoga is represented by handstands, deep backbends and seemingly impossible poses, it can feel overwhelming.
Someone who struggles to sit on a mat may think, “Yoga is not for me”—when, in fact, it might be exactly for them.
I am not an acrobatic yoga practitioner, but I feel deeply grateful for my ability to bend, rotate, sit on the floor and get up again.
It may not look spectacular, but it is a form of freedom: a way of maintaining the body and continuing to feel at home in it.
And this is only the most visible layer of yoga. The physical practice helps us pause, breathe and eventually turn our attention inward.
You don’t need to be flexible before you begin.
You begin with the body you have today.
Perhaps the real privilege is not doing extraordinary things with our body, but continuing to feel at ease in it while doing the most ordinary ones.
