Yoga isn’t about bending your body into impossible shapes.It’s about remembering that your body is yours — capable, responsive, sacred. People someti
Yoga isn’t about bending your body into impossible shapes.
It’s about remembering that your body is yours — capable, responsive, sacred.
People sometimes ask, “If yoga doesn’t build muscle, why do yoga practitioners look so strong?”
Because yoga builds something deeper than muscle. It builds relationship.
Every pose is a quiet conversation between body and spirit:
“Can you hold me steady?”
“Can you breathe through this?”
“Can you trust me again?”
That steady engagement — holding, breathing, releasing — tones the body and retrains the nervous system to see movement as safety, not threat.
It strengthens muscles, yes, but more importantly, it strengthens trust.
Survivors often carry tension where freedom should live.
Yoga teaches us to move that tension through breath and focus, not punishment.
It reminds us that power isn’t about domination or perfection — it’s about presence.
So even when the muscles don’t bulk up, something undeniable shows on the outside:
Photo by Timothy Yiadom
the glow of someone who’s been reclaimed by their own body.
That’s strength.
That’s healing.
That’s what survival looks like — steady, rooted, alive.