Anyone moving through illness, grief, trauma, or any profound life change knows this terrain —
the in-between, where the old self has loosened and the new one has not yet formed.
Even when the crisis softens, stepping back into life isn’t immediate.
Roles shift. Identity changes. The inner landscape feels unfamiliar.
But this stillness is not stagnation.
It is inner alchemy.
Yoga therapy recognizes this because the most transformative shifts are subtle:
• Prāṇa clears blocked pathways without noise.
• Awareness grows through presence, not pressure.
• Energy rises in its own rhythm — unforced and inevitable.
The Bhagavad Gita offers a gentle truth: “Kenaiva phalāni” — everything ripens only in its time.
Healing, identity, clarity, and renewal each unfold at their own pace.
You cannot force what the deeper intelligence of life is already shaping.
The Katha Upanishad deepens this with “śreyas ca preyas ca” — the higher path and the easier path.
The higher path is slow, steady, and inward.
It asks for trust in the unseen work, much like the caterpillar entering its cocoon without knowing the form its wings will take.
The easier path, preyas, is different.
Preyas offers immediate comfort, quick relief, or the temptation to bypass discomfort.
It can look like rushing to “be okay,” forcing yourself back into old roles, or numbing what feels too tender to touch.
It soothes for a moment, but it does not transform.
Śreyas — the higher path — may feel slower, but it reshapes you from the inside.
It invites honesty, patience, and the courage to meet your experience fully.
It transforms what preyas only distracts from.
And yoga therapy offers so much to support this unfolding:
• A way to inhabit your body again — after shock, illness, or fear have made it feel foreign.
• A bridge between medical treatment and lived experience — tending what medicine cannot measure.
• A path to regulate the nervous system — breath by breath.
• A safe place to feel without overwhelm — letting emotions move instead of harden.
• A return to meaning and connection — rebuilding your inner world with honesty and tenderness.
• A new relationship with time — one where slow is allowed, necessary, and sacred.
Because healing isn’t about speed.
It’s about aligning with the wisdom already moving through you.
If your process feels quiet, invisible, or unpredictable, trust that something essential is forming beneath the surface.
You are not behind.
You are not failing.
You are in the cocoon — where the nervous system rewires, tissues repair, emotions reorganize, and the deeper Self remembers its direction.
Your wings aren’t late.
They’re forming in perfect timing, shaped by the same intelligence that turns a caterpillar into flight.
One breath at a time, you are becoming.
