09/03/2026
Strong enough to support yourself - in more ways than one.
This shape asks for something we don't always associate with yoga: the ability to push into the ground and hold our own body weight.
And that's a skill worth practicing.
In Prana Yoga, strength isn't separate from flexibility, breath, or awareness. They work together.
Here, the arms and shoulders support the upper body, the muscles around the shoulder blades stabilize, the core helps keep the trunk organized, and the legs remain active as the front of the body opens.
It's both strength and mobility.
That combination matters.
As we age, maintaining the ability to push, pull, carry, get down to the floor, and get ourselves back up becomes increasingly important for independence. Yoga gives us opportunities to practice many of those abilities using something we always have available - our own body weight.
But there's also some yoga wisdom here.
Support doesn't always have to come from somewhere outside of us.
Part of practice is discovering the resources we already have.
Strength we haven't noticed.
Breath we can return to.
The ability to stay with something uncomfortable without immediately reacting to it.
And the wisdom to recognize when we do need support from someone else.
Yoga isn't about proving we can do everything alone.
It's about knowing ourselves well enough to understand when to engage, when to soften, when to persist, and when to ask for help.
That's a much broader definition of strength.
Prana Yoga - building the kind of strength that supports us on the mat and in the lives we want to keep living.
