08/01/2026
Tapas: the fire that creates change 🔥
Tapas is often translated as heat.
It’s the inner fire that helps you move through resistance, inertia, and self-doubt.
Tapas is what allows effort to turn into clarity.
Discomfort into strength.
Intention into action.
In practice, Stretch Pose with breath of fire is one of the clearest ways to build tapas.
It activates the navel center, sharpens focus, and trains the nervous system to stay steady under challenge.
But fire without balance can become tension.
That’s why we follow it with Sphinx Pose, also with breath of fire.
This posture opens the chest and heart, releases stored anxiety, and allows energy to circulate rather than get stuck.
Together, these two poses teach something essential:
how to be strong without being rigid,
and open without collapsing.