Travis Eliot

Your dharma isn't something you find. It's something you uncover, layer by layer. InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt

In yoga philosophy, dharma refers to your right action — the unique contribution only you are positioned to make, given your nature, your circumstances, and your gifts. It's not a job title, it's closer to an alignment between what you do and who you actually are.

We can spend years covering that alignment up - chasing what looks successful, what makes other people comfortable, what feels safe. The practice offers a way back. Each time you show up on your mat, even when you don't want to, you are practicing the discipline of choosing what's true for you over what's easy.

Dharma isn't found once, it's uncovered daily, one honest choice at a time.

What's one place in your life right now where you're choosing "easy" over "true"?

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Two days inside the Maine State Prison have come to an end.

I’m exhausted and feel deep emotions. My voice is pretty thrashed from teaching nearly eight hours a day and yet…I don’t think I’ve ever felt more alive.

There was something profoundly humbling about leaving the breathtaking coast of Maine each morning and then walking through the stark prison doors.

Over these two days I witnessed tears, laughter, vulnerability, courage, healing, and genuine human connection.

One man shared that practicing with my videos helped save his life in Solitary confinement.

Another said that, for our 2 days together, he felt deeply at peace and forgot he was even in prison.

Every person has a story. Every person carries pain.

And every person longs to be seen—not for the worst thing they’ve ever done, but for the goodness and humanity that still lives within them.

As Nelson Mandela once said:

“If we could see the goodness in others, they would often act the better because of it.”

Yoga wont erase our past but it reminds us that we are always more than our past.

I’m deeply grateful to the prison administration who made these two days possible and to the men who showed up to our 2 day retreat.

The walls of a prison may limit the body…but the human spirit still has the capacity to awaken, heal, and become free.
-Travis Eliot

Between the trigger and your reaction, there's a gap — many people never find it. InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt

Reacting is automatic. Someone cuts you off, and your body tenses before you've even thought about it. Responding is different — it requires a pause, however brief, between what happens and what you do next.

Yoga trains that pause directly. Every time you hold a challenging pose instead of immediately backing out of it, every time you notice frustration rise in your body and choose to breathe through it instead of quitting, you are literally strengthening the neural pathways that allow you to observe an impulse before acting on it.

The more consistently you practice this on your mat, the more that gap starts showing up in your life. In traffic, in hard conversations, in moments that used to hijack your whole day.
That gap is where your freedom lives!

When was the last time you caught that gap before reacting?

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