Do you misunderstand discipline? Some associate it with pressure, rigidity, or self-control at all costs. And understandably, many turn to yoga hoping for the opposite: softness, relief, freedom. Yoga philosophy offers something more nuanced. The two wings of yoga practice Patañjali describes the entire path of yoga with just two principles: “Abhyāsa-vairāgyābhyāṁ tan-nirodhaḥ” “The settling of the mind arises through practice and non-attachment.” (Yoga Sutra 1.12) Not practi