What is Insight?

Insight: When Practice Starts Seeing for Itself There’s a moment in every yoga practitioner’s life—usually somewhere between your third attempt at Marichyasana D and your first truly calm Savasana—when something clicks. It’s not a stretch, not a pose, not even a breath. It’s a flash of understanding that doesn’t come from reading or reasoning but from seeing. That’s what we call insight. So what is insight? In Sanskrit, it’s close to vipashyana—clear seeing. In systems language, it’s when the feedback loop of your practice becomes self-aware. You’ve done the work long enough that the system (that’s you, by the way) begins to understand itself from the inside out. Insight isn’t new information; it’s transformation. It’s the moment the lights come on in the room you’ve been living in all…