A first-person account by Reggie Hubbard describing recovery after a stroke and how somatic, yogic, sonic and dharmic practices reconnected his mind, body, and spirit. He frames the stroke as transformative: restoring embodiment, nervous-system regulation, and spiritual resilience, and emphasizes that authentic spiritual practice is embodied service rather than performative exercise.
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I never would have thought I would have been talking like this at all. But the stroke is the best thing to happen to me because I was living in my head, disconnected from my feelings, in my body. And now that I'm more connected with my body, now that there is a connection between mind, body and spirit, which is what yogic and dharmic work is for. Like, it's spiritual practice is not like a social club where you do performative gymnastics for 60 minutes and then go back and doing the same shit you were doing. Like, like, like that is not to me, yoga. Yoga is the synthesis of mind, body and spirit. So that you're offering to the world through your words and your work is integrity, not just with your healing, but with the liberation of all beings. And like, speak to my work as a teacher because it is embodied for me. You know, when I play sound for folks, these vibrations restored my nervous system. Like a stroke happens and nerves die and connections are gone. But this, this, this machine is so magical that if you rest it and feed it and nourish it and give it vibration like this, so that it can be at peace. It is hardwired for regeneration, it is hardwired for preservation, right? It is hardwired for miracles. And I now know that viscerally. You know, for a lot of teachers it's a lot of blah, blah. I read this in books or I've been doing this theoretically for 20 years, but, but these practices, somatic, yogic, sonic and dharmic, like, restored me from neurological and spiritual devastation to the miracle that's before you right now.