{"id":23,"date":"2026-10-22T06:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/practise-slowly\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:14:39","slug":"practise-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/practise-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we practise slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People sometimes ask why so many of our classes are slow. The honest answer is that slowness is where most of the good things in yoga happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we move slowly we can feel what we are doing. We notice the small adjustments that make a posture comfortable, the moment the breath gets short, the difference between effort and strain. That attention is the practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slow is not the same as easy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holding a posture for five breaths asks a lot of the body and even more of the mind. Slow classes build real strength and real patience, and the second one tends to last longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We practise slowly so that the rest of the week can be a little softer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our timetable is full of slow classes on purpose. A few thoughts on why going gently can take you further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-life","tag-breath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-stillpoint-studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}