The body is not merely the vehicle of the knowing mind but itself a site of intelligence — processing information, holding memory, generating insight through sensation, and communicating through the continuous signal stream of proprioception, interoception, and affect. The Sutras' attention to the relationship between prāṇa (vital energy), āsana (embodied posture), and citta (mind) reflects the recognition that the body's state is not background to psychological life but a primary dimension of it. Somatic intelligence is not the suppression of the body's knowing in favor of the mind's but the cultivation of attentiveness to both.
Patan