Healing Is Not a Straight Line

If you’ve ever thought, “But I was doing so well—why am I feeling low again?” — you’re not alone. Healing isn’t linear. In fact, it never was. From a yogic and Ayurvedic lens, healing is more like a spiral. It returns to the same places again and again—but each time, you meet them with deeper awareness.

In yoga, true healing means integration, not perfection. It’s about weaving together the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic layers (koshas) of who you are—over and over again.

Yogic Philosophy: The Journey Inward is a Spiral, Not a Ladder

The ancient yogis taught us that suffering (duḥkha) is part of the human experience—and also the doorway to awakening. According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, healing requires abhyasa (consistent practice) and vairagya (non-attachment).

This means:

• There will be days of expansion… and days of contraction.
• Sometimes you’ll feel peaceful, other times your shadow will rise.
• Growth will come, not despite your relapses, but through them.

Healing is a sacred re-visiting, not a regression.

The Inner Work: What Makes It Feel So Hard?

Here’s what people don’t often talk about:

• Old emotions will surface when the body feels safe again.
• Energy blocks (like stuck emotions in chakras) start to rise when prana flows freely through asana and breathwork.
• You may cry during Savasana, or feel anger after meditation — that’s your nervous system processing what’s been stored for years.

This is not a breakdown.
This is the release.
This is healing doing its sacred work.

Ayurvedic Insight: Healing is Rhythmic, Not Robotic

In Ayurveda, everything flows in cycles—seasons, doshas, hormonal rhythms, emotional tides. Healing honors this rhythm, not a deadline.

• If you’re in a Vata phase (anxious, scattered), the body needs grounding.
• In a Kapha dip (lethargy, low mood), gentle movement and stimulation is key.
• Pitta flare-up? Cool the fire with rest, reflection, and forgiveness.

There is no one-size-fits-all timeline. Your body heals on its own terms.

How Yoga Holds You Through the Waves

Even when healing feels messy, yoga holds space for all of it — the light, the shadow, the rise, the fall.

Asana, the physical postures, help release deep-seated tension and trauma that often live in the hips, chest, and spine. With every movement, you’re reminding your body it’s safe to feel.

Pranayama, or breathwork, gently regulates the nervous system. It teaches you how to return to your center — especially when emotions feel loud or overwhelming. A simple inhale can shift your entire state.

Meditation teaches you to witness your thoughts rather than get caught in them. It doesn’t stop the mind from spiraling — it gives you the space to say, “Ah, I see you. But you’re not all of me.”

Yoga Nidra is the deep rest your subconscious craves. It’s where true healing happens — in stillness, where the mind softens and the soul speaks.

Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotion, offers you something sacred to surrender to. When your will feels weak or your heart is tired, devotion gives you strength that doesn’t come from striving — but from remembering you’re already held.

In every practice, yoga whispers,
“You don’t have to be perfect. Just present.”
And in that presence, healing begins — again and again.

You’re Not Broken. You’re Becoming Whole.

Healing is a circle. It brings you back to the same places, but each time with more awareness, more grace, more light. Don’t let the ups and downs fool you — they’re all part of the rhythm of your rising.

• You’re not behind. You’re blooming in divine timing.
• Healing is not about “fixing” yourself — it’s about remembering you were never broken.

Bonus Practice: When You Feel You’re “Backsliding”…

Try this short ritual:

1. Sit comfortably. Close your eyes.
2. Inhale deeply — say silently: “I honor where I am.”
3. Exhale slowly — say: “This too is healing.”
4. Repeat for 3 minutes.

Let your breath anchor you in the now. Because here, you are healing.

My Healing Story

There was a time when I felt like I was drifting — constantly giving, trying, yet quietly breaking on the inside.

I was doing “all the right things”—eating well, practising yoga, checking off the to-do lists. But something inside me felt dull, hollow, almost like I was watching my life from a distance. The more I tried to be perfect — as a daughter, a woman, the more I lost touch with who I was. My body started whispering things I didn’t want to hear: exhaustion, hormonal chaos, unexplained anxiety. And then came the deep silence — the kind that forces you to listen.

That’s when healing truly began for me.

Not in a fancy retreat. Not in a breakthrough moment. But in the small, slow decisions to return to myself every single day. Through breath. Through grounding food. Through crying. Through rituals. Through understanding my hormones. Through surrender.

I returned to the wisdom I had grown up with — the power of chakras, the healing strength of the breath, and the gentle guidance of nature. I re-learned how to be in my body, how to honour my sensitivity, and how to find safety in stillness.

It wasn’t a straight path. Some days, I slipped back into old patterns. But slowly, the pieces started to come together — and they came together around love. Around gentleness. Around deep feminine strength.

Today, my work is not about being “fixed.” It’s about remembering that we were never broken to begin with.

I teach yoga, breathwork, and holistic healing because I know what it feels like to be lost inside your skin. I know what it takes to come home to your body again. And I know the quiet, powerful beauty that unfolds when a woman begins to trust her rhythm.

This is not just my story — it’s a sacred memory. And if you’re here, perhaps you’re remembering too.

You are not alone. You are healing.

You are whole. You are home.

With love,

Shweta Arya

FOUNDER AND OWNER (HOLISTIC HEALTH WITH SHWETA)