by Lalitha Viswanath | Aug 27, 2026 | Yoga Philosophy
Ask a student six months into practice what a pose feels like, and they’ll usually describe what it looks like instead. That’s not a flaw. It’s just where practice starts. Awareness of internal sensation, what researchers call interoception, is a...
by Lalitha Viswanath | Aug 27, 2026 | Yoga Philosophy
Patanjali described the mind in one sentence, roughly two thousand years ago. Neuroscience is still catching up to it. That sentence, the second verse of the Yoga Sutras, defines yoga as citta vritti nirodhah, the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. Not the...
by Lalitha Viswanath | Aug 19, 2026 | Yoga Philosophy
A student can practice yoga for years and never actually do yoga. Not once. That’s not a criticism. It’s what happens when the practice gets sold, and bought, as exercise. A 2024 study in Frontiers in Psychology found that extrinsic motivation, things like...
by Lalitha Viswanath | Aug 13, 2026 | Yoga Philosophy
Being busy is not neutral. A well-known 2010 study published in Psychological Science, often cited as the idleness aversion research, found that people actively prefer staying occupied over doing nothing, even when the task they choose serves no real purpose, because...
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