Most yoga teaches you to perform in your body. It was built to teach you to read it. In this episode of The Human Skills, Dr. Connie Cheung — DPT and functional medicine practitioner — explains why the mat is a laboratory, not a workout, and why so many people flow through an entire class and walk out the same person who walked in.

You'll learn what "self-study" actually means, why how you meet a hard pose mirrors how you meet your life, and why the typical class environment — the comparison, the performing, the self-criticism turned inward — works against the very transformation it promises. Connie also names the part most teachers miss: you don't have to choose between a strong, capable body and real self-knowledge. You can build strength, flexibility, and mobility and learn to understand the body doing the work.

This is yoga as nervous-system awareness, somatic self-study, and embodied intelligence — the foundation of the EASE OS™ approach to whole-person health.

🎙️ In this episode: performing vs. practicing · the mat as a mirror for your life · why self-study fails in a crowded class · strength + somatic awareness in one practice · how to hold your own practice

➡️ The EASE OS™ Somatic Lab opens soon to a founding group of 100 — the waitlist gets in first, at the founding rate:

→ https://www.drconniecheung.com/waitlist-page-ease-os-somatic-lab

Learn more: drconniecheung.com