Isaac Mullins

There’s a misunderstanding in modern yoga culture: that being open and relaxed  means becoming passive, floppy, or fragile. A kind of dreamy glow where firm ness is judged as ego and collapse is mistaken for peace. It isn’t. Openness is not weakness.Relaxation is not collapse.Softness is not the absence of backbone. Fragility is not spiritual depth.Being overwhelmed is not sensitivity. To be truly open is to be fully present without being knocked over by the moment.To be truly relaxed is...

Over the last ten years, this understanding has quietly deepened in me; that yoga, at one level, is a practice for health, and at another, a training in the art of letting go.Lately, I sense this lesson becoming more relevant for many of us, not as an idea of loss, but as an opening into something wider, quieter, more alive. I’ve been exploring what the spiritual traditions say about release, and how they connect it with death, not as an ending but as a continuation of awareness. In yoga, we...

What ancient yoga philosophy offers — not as an answer, but as a way to stay present, observe, and transform There’s a familiar message...