29/04/2026
Notes & Quotes | 02
Shravana — a term I first met in my Yoga Nidra practice. Today it found me again, in a Shiatsu session.
Shravana means deep listening — not just with the ears, but with the whole being.
Without analyzing. Without categorizing. Just receiving what is there.
In Shiatsu, we listen through our hands.
Today, at the end of a session, I held a client's shoulder. Nothing more. Just held it, followed its movement, stayed with what was there. Slowly, something arose. A sense of what the shoulder was carrying.
I didn't say anything.
At the end I asked: do you know now what it is?
She said yes.
I didn't ask what.
The body holds what the mind hasn't named yet. And sometimes, being truly listened to is enough for that knowing to surface. Not through words. Not through analysis. Through presence.
As practitioners, the quality of our listening decides whether any of it needs to be spoken — or whether the listening itself is already the work.
Shravana.
