An Inner Rhythms teaching with Mariane Karou on what it actually means to interfere with your own practice — and how to stop. The session addresses a common experience: strong emotions like anger arise, and instead of including them, you try to push through to a "better" state, which loops you out of the practice entirely. The answer is disarmingly direct: follow every direction, include whatever sensation comes up, and stay on track.
What emerges from this guidance is a deeper principle that translates far beyond the meditation itself — the ability to stay on a task in life when feelings arise, without being taken out. Your breath becomes the mechanism: Mariane observes how, in moments of high sensation, the body naturally shifts into a slower, deeper, fuller breath on its own — not through effort, but through the consistent training of this practice.
