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...
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...
Most studios that offer “advanced” classes just make the postures harder. Same one-hour format, same group setting, more difficult variations. Pratimoksha’s Signature Program was built on a different premise entirely: depth isn’t about...
There’s a particular kind of student who shows up to class early, stays a few minutes after, and starts asking questions that go past “am I doing this right.” Not because the class is too easy. Because something in the practice has started to open...
Dhyana is not the same thing as sitting quietly with your eyes closed. That confusion is common, understandable, and worth clearing up before anyone attempts the practice seriously. A widely cited Harvard study found that people’s minds wander for roughly 47...
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