yoga is a toolbox of emotional regulation and personal resilance.

Let’s define those terms. It’s important to know what it is we’re doing.

Emotional regulation, at first blush and in common parlance, is something like ‘calm down’ or ‘feel better’. But that’s not what it really is. Emotional regulation is about connection.

Resilience does not mean unflappability. It is not a holy aloofness or a pasted on smile. It isn’t a Nietzchean what doesn’t kill you or a grin and go on. It is a vivid capacity to do hard things.