Full disclosure: I’ve been doing yoga for a long time, long enough to have mastered some advanced poses I still won’t go near. Call me uncertain, call me cautious, call me teetering on an edge, the one between feeling fully grounded and light enough to let go.

Or maybe I just haven’t quite accessed that sweet spot, mysterious in name, mula bandha. Some yoga teachers I’ve experienced make an assumption of visualizing the internal,  the ‘root lock’ (two inches below the belly button and one inch in) at the core, one of the three through which prana flows. Contract the perineum, think of Kegel exercises; sometimes it gets even more anatomically specific. Continue  . . .