I’ve had to take a step back from intense physical movement to heal an injury lately. The movement always helped with the injury, but in order to fully and truly heal this time, I had to pause. One of the things that I’ve had two of my favorite teachers tell me is that visualizing the movement is just has beneficial as actually doing it.

When we think about yoga, we primarily think about the physical practice. We think about attending classes, getting the heart rate up, doing a movement practice. We might also think about breath, but past that, if we haven’t experienced yoga, we don’t know about all of the other parts that make up our yoga practice.

The hardest step is often getting ourselves there. To the mat, to the gym, to the pool, whatever it may be for us. We come up with all kinds of excuses: "I'm tired", "it's been a long day," "I'll just go tomorrow, tomorrow works better."