Breathing fast and slow

A couple of months ago, one of my fellow yogis shared with me the following story about listening to me host my weekly live-streamed podcast Out on a Limb . Years ago, she told me, she had watched a documentary that had been narrated by the actor Brad Pitt. Because the audience does not see the actor throughout the film, but only hears his voice, my friend confessed that she felt as though she was hearing the voice of this highly celebrated actor for the first time. By listening only to his voice, she heard a rhythm, a cadence, a mesmerizing quality that she had never before experienced when seeing the actor speak his lines in a movie. That, she explained, was how she felt about hearing my voice these past nine months as the on air host of Out on a Limb . How could I not love this story? Aside from the fact that it was meant as a compliment—which, by the way, is how it was received—it revealed much about the storyteller, my yoga-practicing friend. The story told me something about