A few strong exhales can help break patterns of unnecessary tension, reconnect you to your breath, and make movement feel lighter and more fluid.
A forceful exhale also helps coordinate your breath with effort, supporting core engagement and stability during challenging movements.
Sometimes a few intentional breaths are all it takes to change the way your body feels.
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Travis Eliot
Travis Eliot is a yoga & meditation teacher, author, and co-founder of Inner Dimension. See YOU on the mat! TravisEliot.com
His Telly Award-winning Sadhana program, viral YouTube classes, and sold-out retreats have inspired millions.
14/07/2026
NEW 10 Min Yoga for STRESS RELIEF l Recovery Routine 🙏
In this practice, you'll move through gentle stretches and calming movements to release stress and restore balance.
https://youtu.be/l4L2dr-39Us
13/07/2026
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"?
👉 If you're ready to build a practice that supports this kind of clarity, start your free 10 day trial at InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned after more than two decades of teaching is this:
It’s often not the pose that creates problems…
it’s how you transition between poses.
Repeatedly crossing movement planes without first stabilizing can gradually overload the sacrum and contribute to low back discomfort in some practitioners.
Move with intention.
Stabilize first.
Then transition.
Small refinements like this can make a big difference over the course of a lifetime of practice.
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After more than 25 years of practice, this simple truth still surprises me.
I’ve never finished a yoga practice wishing I hadn’t started.
Some days I have more energy than others.
Some days the practice feels amazing.
Some days it’s simply about showing up.
But every time I step onto the mat, I leave feeling better than when I began.
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the practice.
It’s taking the first step.
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11/07/2026
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
11/07/2026
NEW 20 min yin yoga class on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/nnBK8Zm6jM4
In this practice, you’ll move through long-held postures to promote rest and release, helping your body unwind and prepare for deep sleep. 🙏
10/07/2026
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?
👉 If you're ready to build a practice that trains this skill on and off the mat, start your free 10 day trial at InnerDimensionYoga.com/fbt.
09/07/2026
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
https://traviseliot.com/