Creativity is not only mental; it is embodied. A song, image, or phrase may arrive through breath, posture, tension, rhythm, or release before it becomes language. Fascia offers a useful lens for this: the body as a living field of sensation, memory, movement, and response. For artists, expression can become a way of listening to what the whole body already knows.

Yoga is to be understood as ever-present within each of our experiences of the body. The path of Yoga cannot be fully experienced without the connection of our Self, Being, and the body in which that Pure Consciousness resides. The state of Yoga is our physiological makeup, and perhaps the path of Yoga is the practice of remembering that.

• Research on oxytocin and the “tend-and-befriend” stress response.

• Self-compassion studies (Kristin Neff) showing reduced anxiety and increased resilience.

• Spiritual teachers: Love as both the path and the destination (Ram Dass, Maharishi).