wisdom as practice

Wisdom as Practice | not Possession

At myoga, we know this truth well: your body will change, your circumstances will shift, and the world will throw curveballs you never saw coming. Money comes and goes. Careers pivot. Even health and beauty, no matter how much we care for them are impermanent.

But wisdom? Wisdom is the one thing that endures.

In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali points us toward this reality. He describes the essence of practice as cultivating sthira sukham asanam, a state of steadiness and ease, both on the mat and in life. This is not about mastering a perfect pose, but about discovering an inner posture that cannot be shaken by external change. It is about learning to return, again and again, to balance.

Centuries later, the Stoics echoed this same insight. Exile, slander, imprisonment even death, could come suddenly. Yet nothing external could erase what you had truly integrated within yourself. Philosopher Pierre Hadot called this refuge the “inner citadel.”

Both Patanjali and the Stoics remind us that wisdom is not something given, nor something we stumble upon once and keep forever. It is cultivated through repetition, through showing up, through practice. Like yoga itself, it is not a possession but a process.

The cycle is simple, but profound:
Learn → Apply → Reflect → Repeat.

This is the flywheel we live by at myoga. Each turn of the wheel makes us steadier, more resilient, more compassionate. Each cycle helps us meet life as it is with clarity, with courage, with grace.

Even Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and student of philosophy, reminded himself never to be satisfied with “just the gist.” Patanjali, too, teaches us that practice is not about a single breakthrough, but about the slow and steady turning of awareness into wisdom.

So here’s the invitation: keep turning the wheel. Keep showing up. Keep practicing not because you’ll ever be “finished,” but because every cycle makes you more free.

Wisdom, like yoga, is not something we have.
It is something we do.
And it is always ours to cultivate.

xo kellie