4BEAT Yoga: The Discipline of Breath

I like to say that I started yoga for all the wrong reasons. Or maybe for exactly the right ones. I first stepped into a yoga studio only because an old injury left me no choice but to trade high-impact training for something kinder on my joints. I wasn’t curious or inspired; I was skeptical, convinced that yoga was just a collection of 'easy shapes' that could offer neither challenge nor purpose, and quietly certain that slowing down was something I simply didn’t need. Oh, and of course, I couldn't touch my toes. My very first class did nothing to change my mind. We spent most of the hour seated, tying ourselves into elaborate knots ...