The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way—not a human capacity or human capability. It is the invitations that are now in the world-at-large, inviting us to listen deeply, to be keen, to be fresh, to be quick with our heels, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.

We're dealing with something that is, in my calculations, fundamentally incalculable. It is unframeable. It is something that calls for a shapeshift, not for a resolution or solutions, or technological or techno-bureaucratic deletions, or funding… It is an invitation to stop in our tracks and feel—like failure is the gift that we are looking for right now.

Slowing down is not a function of privilege. It's a function of intimacy with a world that is agentially alive; it's crossroads dynamic.

The breath is the most important function of the body since all other functions depend on it.

The profound science of the breath has been known to the East for centuries, where a consistent breathing practice, pranayama, was considered to be an integral part of daily life, just as drinking, eating and sleeping. Only in recent years has western research started discovering and in fact confirming the vital importance of correct, controlled breathing on our mental and physical health.

It is this act of intelligently controlled breathing that enables continued vitality and freedom from disease.