Alignment as a Living Practice

Alignment in practice is not just about squaring your hips or pulling your shoulders away from your ears. Finding alignment is also about the standard you set for your life. The way you want to feel. The version of yourself you are choosing to live from.

You can think of alignment as a frequency.

Each time you allow something misaligned in, even in small ways, you may feel that frequency drop. This is not about being perfect. It is about having something you are oriented toward.

Misalignment does not always announce itself loudly. Often it shows up quietly as anxiety, mental clutter, constant fatigue, or a low-level sense of being drained without knowing why. Usually it is not one big thing, but many small things adding up. Small yeses that cost too much. Small compromises that slowly erode clarity.

I see this often, and I have experienced it myself, in the pressure to be easygoing, agreeable, and non-confrontational. This is where many people-pleasing patterns take root, even when a situation, relationship, or expectation does not actually align. We tolerate what does not fit because it feels easier than naming the truth.

But alignment requires boundaries. And saying “this doesn’t work for me anymore” can feel uncomfortable, even when it is honest. Alignment is not about cutting everything out or avoiding life. It is about filling your time and energy with what does align, and trusting that what does not will naturally fall away.

This is a patient practice. One of noticing. Listening. Choosing again. Over and over. It begins with presence, because you cannot choose differently if you cannot first see the choice.

In yoga philosophy, this is deeply connected to satya, or truthfulness. Not just speaking truth outwardly, but living in integrity with what you know inwardly. Alignment is not something you achieve once. It is something you practice in real time, in ordinary moments, as a reminder that you have more autonomy in your experience than you may give yourself credit for.

It starts quietly. With awareness, then with honesty. Then with the willingness to choose again.