My Body Did Yoga. My Brain Had Other Plans.

Raff's Brain #278: My Body Did Yoga. My Brain Had Other Plans. Class 401 destroyed me. Class 402 felt almost…easy. Clearly, this is how trouble starts. After a brutal Yoga Sculpt session, I return to CorePower Yoga for a 6 a.m. C2 class expecting another beating. Instead, I’m taking the harder options and wondering why I don’t feel crushed. Am I making progress—or is my brain too busy calculating my entire future to notice the workout? On this episode of Raff’s Brain: Hot Yoga Problems, we’re talking about the difference between showing up and actually being present, my objection to a particular headstand transition, and the dangers of saying the E-word in a hot yoga studio. Plus: an Election Day reflection on participating, keeping perspective, and avoiding an emotional headstand over outcomes you can’t control. In this episode: • Returning to the mat after the Class 401 Sculpt massacre. • Airplane pose, with a brain full of Hangover-style math equations. • Getting through class versus staying present for it. • The star-pose-to-headstand transition I could live without. • Consistency, incremental progress, and tempting fate with “easy.” • Election Day: do your part and keep your emotional footing. Subscribe for more Hot Yoga Problems, questionable tangents, and honest dispatches from a work in progress. Call the Raff's Brain Hotline! Pick a topic, make a statement, ask a question! 571-408-8058.