💫 Occasionally, we come across a story — or perhaps a moment in meditation — where we imagine what advice our current self might offer our younger self. It’s a powerful reflection, often full of tenderness, clarity, and wisdom. But what if we turned the mirror, too?  What insights can we learn in the intuitive courage of our younger Self ~ our True Self?  What might your younger self — wild, intuitive, unconditioned — say to the version of you sitting here today? This practice of reflection isn’t about regret or longing. It’s about listening, and finding the courage to be vulnerable to what we might hear.  With this courage, we can find the abundance of love within us.

The Yoga Sutras remind us in 1.33 to cultivate qualities like maitrī (loving-kindness) and upekṣā (equanimity) toward ourselves and others. When we engage in this inner dialogue, we aren’t judging who we were or what we’ve become — we’re remembering that both are within us.  Finding our connection to love can change the entire story.

Think of that first flicker of consciousness in the womb — the knowing of two cells multiplying into a being with a heartbeat. The baby bird who doesn’t learn to break the shell, but knows it must. The seedling who doesn’t ask how to grow — it simply leans toward the light.

This is not strategy. This is intuition — the same sacred wisdom you carry now – the knowing of love.

Your younger self might say:

“You were made to stretch beyond the walls you find yourself in.”

“You knew how to breathe before the world told you to hold your breath.”

“You cried when you needed to, loved without apology, and dared to dream.”

“You didn’t call your light ‘ego’ back then — you simply shone.”

So now — as you move through your practice — what if every breath became a reconnection with that primal knowing? What if each pose was not about achievement, but about reunion?

When you reach your arms up, feel the seedling reaching for the sun.
When you fold forward, feel the humility of the bird bowing to the shell it once broke.
When you pause in stillness, feel the miracle of your very first breath — and the gift that you’re still breathing.

In Yoga Sutra 2.33–2.34, we are offered the practice of pratipaksha bhāvana — to consciously cultivate the opposite of our limiting thoughts. When we feel “I’m not enough,” our younger self might say, “You were always whole.” When we feel “It’s too late,” that wise inner voice might whisper, “Time was never your enemy.”

Yoga is not just a path forward. It’s a sacred loop — a remembering, a return, a reunion of self with Self. It’s the wisdom of living and the innocence of being, holding hands.

In Sol Hot Yoga Studio, we return to this conversation in every class — in sweat, in silence, in surrender. Here, we don’t just move to become stronger. We move to remember.  Ours is not to over-think & attempt analysis of this expansive love.  In truth, we intuitively possess a peace that surpasses our adult attempts at understanding.  Attempting to wrap our minds around it is as impossible & unnecessary as the earth trying to wrap itself around the sky.  Imagine if the baby needed to understand its future life in order to grow inside the womb — both, impossible & unnecessary .  We need but to remember we are wrapped in the purest form of love.

So maybe today’s practice is a love letter across time.
From who you are.
To who you’ve always been.