FRC Hip Protocol Day 1: Unlocking Internal Rotation

She teaches six days a week, adjusts with precision, and hasn’t missed a Mysore practice in three years. She’s also been on tirzepatide for eight months. She hasn’t told anyone. Not her teacher. Not her students. Not her practice partner who shares a cup of chai with her every Saturday. When someone compliments her “discipline” or asks about her “transformation,” she deflects to “clean eating” and “consistency.” The lie tastes like ash, but the alternative—admitting she’s on a GLP-1 agonist—feels impossible in a culture that treats pharmacological support as spiritual failure. She’s not alone. 🤫 The Substances We Don’t Discuss Across yoga studios and Mysore rooms, practitioners are quietly managing their bodies with tools they cannot name aloud: peptides for tendon healing, biologics for autoimmune…

He’d been nursing the shoulder injury for two years. It started as minor irritation after an adjustment that went slightly wrong—the kind of thing that happens in long-term practice. He modified. He rested. He did physical therapy. He saw specialists. The tendon would improve, then flare. He couldn’t get back to his full practice. In Mysore culture, there’s a particular valorization of working through limitations. Tapas—discipline, austerity, the burning off of impurities—gets invoked to justify years of modified practice, of “listening to the body” while the body slowly degrades. The practitioner who pushes through injury is sometimes celebrated; the practitioner who “gives up” is subtly diminished. A friend mentioned BPC-157. He researched it, found the gray-market sources, started injecting. Within weeks, something shifted. Within months,…

Joseph Campbell’s voice has long been a guide for those who sense there is more to myth than ancient symbols. In a recent interview with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove for New Thinking Allowed, Campbell explores the living function of mythology—how it bridges body, mind, and the soul’s longing for meaning. Campbell’s vision is deeply yogic: myth as teacher, myth as mirror. As he describes, the gods and heroes aren’t just old stories, but blueprints for our own potential. Isn’t this what yogic self-study, or svadhyaya, invites—turning inward, seeing ourselves reflected in the great archetypal tales? 🌍 Myth as the Harmonizer Campbell notes that our bodies and minds are full of conflicting impulses—desire, fear, compassion, and hope. Mythology, he says, evolved to help us harmonize these energies,…