Three years in and you have the sequence memorized. You know the Sanskrit names, or most of them. You can get through Primary without stopping to think about what comes next. You have also stopped noticing anything. That is the intermediate trap. You learned the shapes and skipped the system. This is the thing about yoga that nobody tells you at the beginning, mostly because it sounds like a contradiction: the people who are often practicing best are the ones who have just started. Not because they are more flexible or more focused. Because they are paying attention to what is actually happening, instead of managing how it looks. A beginner has no performance to maintain. They arrive, they try, they fall. They breathe because…