Only Dead Fish Go with the Flow

On Swimming Against the Current + Listening to the Breath Beneath the Noise

There’s something unmistakably electric about being in the presence of someone who has lived fully—not just followed the map, but carved out a path all their own.

I still remember the first time I watched David Swenson effortlessly float through the Advanced Series of Ashtanga Yoga in one of his videos filmed on Maui.

It was the early 2000s, I was 21. An…