Rest as Practice: Why Stillness Is Part of Yoga Teaching Rest is often treated as something we earn after effort. In yoga, it is something we practice *alongside* effort. As teachers, students, and lifelong practitioners, we spend years refining technique, language, sequencing, and presence. Yet many of us were never explicitly taught how to rest *within* the practice—how to pause without disengaging, how to listen without fixing, how to allow stillness to inform teaching rat