Hustle Culture Was Killing My Body. Until This 1 Yoga Pose Brought Me Back to Life

By Nandini         Oct., 6, 2025

I used to wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Deadlines, emails, late-night caffeine, every day felt like survival mode. My body screamed for rest, but I called it ambition. Little did I know, I was slowly falling apart.

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One morning, I couldn’t move without pain. My hands trembled while typing. My mind felt foggy. I didn’t feel “tired”, I felt empty. That’s when I realized: this isn’t normal. This is burnout.

I took supplements. I tried productivity hacks. I even convinced myself a weekend off would fix it. But you can’t heal a body you keep betraying. What I really needed… was stillness.

One night, desperate for relief, I searched “simple yoga for exhaustion.” I found a pose called Balasana , Child’s Pose. It looked too simple to matter. But something about it felt like home.

The first time I folded into Child’s Pose, I cried. Not from pain, but from release. My heartbeat slowed. My breath deepened. For the first time in years, my body felt safe again.

That one pose became my pause button. Before every meeting, after every meltdown, I’d just breathe. Slowly, yoga stopped being a routine… and became a relationship with myself.

No overnight transformation. No miracle diet. Just quiet moments on my mat, learning to be. Yoga didn’t just fix my burnout It taught me to listen to the voice I’d been ignoring all along.

If hustle culture has you running on empty… pause. You don’t need a full routine or fancy class. Start with one pose. One breath. One honest moment. Because healing starts the second you stop performing and start feeling.

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