I step onto my mat and take a breath, releasing as I exhale, and I am once more reminded of the sacred role of this mahi, the sacred assignment to unwind and release, and like mirimiri uses external forces to activate your internal healing, the mirimiri of my breath inside my body, the power of my breath, releases tension built up over days, or even weeks. 

Coming back to myself with the breath, releasing negative thoughts and emotions like a wave washing them out to sea, it may take many more breaths... but eventually I am here.

It can take movements and postures too, and for my own intuition to click in, and find the pose most longed for, most needed.

Somehow it's found, and the thoughts no longer dominate the space inside. That space is free and ready to breathe with my lungs, knowing nothing more than each expansion and release....

Of course it is not always this magical! Sometimes the inner freedom is elusive, the mind does not release and become tau/ settled and o...