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When spiritual fitness feels performative

I've been doing hot yoga for three years and my instructor keeps talking about 'releasing trauma from the tissues' but I just feel like I'm sweating and pretending to have breakthroughs I don't actually feel.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between prescribed embodied transformation and lived experience creates a crisis of authentic spiritual engagement.

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