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Practising through the monsoon
Why your practice should get lighter, warmer and earlier in the wet season.
- Author
- Anjali Perera
- Date
- 19 August 2026
- Read
- 4 min
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The monsoon is not a problem to practise through. It is the practice. The shala sides stay open. Water comes in on the wind. We start earlier, while the air is still kind.
Standing work gets shorter. Holds get longer. Heat is welcome; strain is not. If your mat is damp, that is information, not a failure.
People arrive wanting the same sequence they do at home. We take it down a notch and add breath. By the third morning they stop arguing with the weather.
When it really comes down we sit. The rain is louder than instruction. That is useful.
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