Coming Home to the Body

These reflections center on embodiment, physical ease, safety, and kindness toward limitation.

• “I feel encouraged to accept this aging body, some of the limitations, with grace.”
• “I greatly appreciate your classes because even though I don’t have a traditional ‘yoga body’, I am always made to feel comfortable and welcome.”
• “Cares about my physical constraints and adjusts poses as needed.”
• “I’ve come a long way in having the wisdom to know the difference between changing the things I am able to and accepting the things I cannot change.”
• “I have incorporated yoga into my life and it sustains me and is evolving. It’s how I’ve gotten to know my body over time.”

Finding Calm Without Force

Here the emphasis is on nervous system settling, breath, anxiety relief, and non-striving.

• “Being able to slow my mind helps immensely with focus and keeping anxiety away.”
• “I learned how to appreciate and cultivate calm and quiet.”
• “How to breathe and get perspective. How to tune in to what is important and how to let go.”
• “I sometimes have to force myself to get started, but I’ve never regretted it and have always finished feeling better than when I started.”
• “Stress relief… would not survive my hectic work life without your classes.”

Learning to Meet Life as It Is

These comments speak to acceptance, perspective, resilience, and living with reality rather than against it.

• “Accepting life as it is right now. Not constantly judging.”
• “You have control over this moment, this choice, this breath.”
• “I’ve learned how to meet people where they ARE in the moment.”
• “Taking time out, a pause, to notice and not react.”
• “I remember the life struggles of my fellow students most… that has been lasting inspiration for me.”

Belonging, Community, and Not Being Alone

This is one of the strongest threads: being seen, welcomed, and held in community.

• “Even on days when enthusiasm wanes… the pull of commitment and community brings me back.”
• “It has been such a comfort at a time where I have felt so alone to come together with others and practice.”
• “You create a safe space for people to open up.”
• “Learning in a community of supportive peers with inspirational leadership.”
• “I met someone very special who I never would have met otherwise.”

Trusting Inner Wisdom

These reflections point toward agency, self-trust, and inner knowing—often named indirectly.

• “You’ve taught me that I know the right answers oftentimes. I need to listen to my inner wisdom.”
• “I can see myself as I truly am: a human capable and worthy of love and contentment.”“Possibility: I become aware of the many options there are for how I relate to my experiences.”
• “Learning to listen to everything.”
• “That is what Brant does. Never talks about it, just does it.”

Practice That Lasts

• These comments reflect longevity, integration into daily life, and quiet transformation over time.
• “MBSR changed my life and Yoga is taking things a little further every day.”
• “I took your MBSR course over ten years ago… it stays with me.”
• “Setting time aside as a practice is still clunky for me but the more I do it the more valuable it becomes.”
• “Participating in the sessions improved my subsequent life experience though I’ve never understood the connection.”
• “Thank you for being a wonderful foundation stone in my life.”

Reading these reflections, I’m assured through your sincere words that what we long for is always here.  We simply open the door to notice the beauty of what you wrote as we awaken to the direct experience of our life.
— Brant