(The Bhagavad Gita explicitly states that yoga is the “dissolution of union with pain.”) In fact, yoga practice is meant to teach us how to untangle these inner knots. In physical terms, you practice surrender when you consciously relax into full awareness of a part of your body that hurts, rather than resisting the discomfort. The Resilience ToolkitTapas, Sadhyaya, and Ishvara pranidhana can be applied in any situation and practiced at any level of spiritual awareness. It’s one of the first gifts of yoga practice, and it’s often the reason we originally take up yoga. ADVERTISEMENTI’ve seen again and again that any real resilience we possess has to come from that energy and presence.