> suffer to one degree or another from thinking of themselves as a brain being carried around as a meat sack This was me for most of my life. Yoga has been li

> suffer to one degree or another from thinking of themselves as a brain being carried around as a meat sack This was me for most of my life. Yoga has been life changing. Cultivating full body awareness and presence opened my eyes to states of being that I didn’t know I was capable of experiencing. I can feel the subtle changes in strength each day, or a touch of soreness, or the exact spot that anxiety has settled into in my gut. Gaining the level of focus needed brought with it a deeper and broader awareness of my emotional states, and the realization that I have some separation from them, i.e. they != me. This in turn helped me unwind some big things I’d been dealing with in therapy. In retrospect, it makes so much sense to think of my body as an integral part of who I am and how I feel. But that’s a mode of thinking that I was certainly never introduced to as a kid, and never experienced by default.