Stop, recalibrate, and listen

HALF WILD's back with a brand new edition. On stillness, inspiration, and soaking up the good stuff in savasana.

At the end of a yoga class, you lay on your back in a final savasana and this, they say, is where the real work gets done. The poses and pushing and pain were all in preparation for this moment of corpselike stillness, where the toil soaks into your bones. Prone, your body integrates the changes you’ve made and when you reemerge you are born again. The …