Many of us tend to think of the body as a workhorse, carrying out the dictates of the mind. In some ways, this is accurate. We think “pick that up” (or something along those lines) and our hand picks something up. But as Amy Cuddy points out, the mind and body are in constant dialogue, communicating with and influencing one another. As yoga practitioners have understood for millennia, this means it’s a two-way street; we can tell the body to do things, yes, but adjusting the body can also inf...