Yoga 101: Letting Go

About This Class

In this short but thought-provoking talk, Bryan Kest challenges cultural attitudes toward aging and the obsession with youthful appearances, arguing that our society wrongly discards the wisdom of older people while glorifying youth. He reframes the aging process — wrinkles, gray hair, and physical change — not as losses to be feared, but as opportunities to practice letting go. His core teaching is experiential: each small act of release (accepting a wrinkle, a gray hair) builds the inner evidence that "nothing bad happens" when we let go, gradually conditioning the mind and heart to face larger transitions — and ultimately life's final letting go — with equanimity and without fear. The class is purely lecture-based with no physical movement, making it a meditative, mindfulness-oriented offering suited to quiet reflection at any time of day.