many yogic practices are designed to activate the body’s stress responses of fight, flight, or freeze. The whole idea behind yoga, he said in an interview, “is that through training, you can begin going into these immobilizing states normally linked with faint and freeze, but more aware and less frightened.” He described it as “the ability to go deep inside oneself and feel secure” in response to a perceived threat.61 This is key to healing: learning the power of your body and your mind by testing their outer limits.
