🧘 Seated Meditation Pose (Sukhasana): Practice, Notice, Allow

Welcome back to Yoga for Leadership™. 🌱

Week 8 of 8 in our Presence to Impact series.

We've moved through grounding, courage, balance, release, opening, visibility, and expression.

This week: integration.

I come back to this pose when I need to remember that leadership isn't about getting it right once. It's about showing up, noticing, adjusting, and showing up again.

🧘 Seated Meditation Pose (Sukhasana) 

Leadership Practice: Practice, Notice, Allow

Sit comfortably. Spine tall. Hands resting. Eyes soft or closed.

Let your breath settle. Notice what's present.

In yoga, integration happens in the pause. We practice. We rest. We let the body absorb what it learned. We notice what shifted.

In leadership, integration works the same way.

You try something new. A different way of showing up in meetings. A boundary you haven't set before. A question instead of an answer.

And then you notice. What happened? What shifted? What didn't?

You adjust. You try again. You give it time.

Not one attempt and done. Not "it worked" or "it didn't."

You practice. You notice. You allow space for yourself to shift. For the situation to shift. For the practice to take root.

Integration isn't instant. It's iterative.

I see this all the time with leaders. They leave a workshop with a clear strategy. They finish a coaching session with a powerful insight. They know exactly what they want to shift.

Then they walk back into the work vortex. The pace. The high stakes. The urgency. The back-to-back meetings and someone else's crisis.

And they get sucked right back into their original mode of working.

It's not that they forgot. It's that the vortex is strong. And breaking out of it requires more than intention. It requires practice, noticing when you're back in it, and the space to adjust.

The pose teaches you to pause long enough to let things settle. To notice what's actually happening, not just what you hoped would happen.

That's where the real work is.

🌱 Leadership Practice

After you try something new, pause.

Notice what happened. What shifted in you? What shifted around you? Did the work vortex pull you back?

Adjust. Try again. Give it time and space.

Integration happens in the cycle, not the single attempt.

💫 Ask yourself: 

What are you practicing right now? And are you giving it enough space to take root?

This is where practice becomes leadership.

Not perfection on the first try. Not immediate results.

Practice. Notice. Adjust. Allow. Repeat.

That's how real shifts happen.

One breath.

One pose.

One practice.