The Art of Letting Go: How Yoga Taught Me to Stop Chasing and Start Becoming

There was a time in my life when I was trying so hard to call in what I wanted. I was journaling, visualizing, meditating, saying all the right affirmations. I was doing the work — or so I thought.

But instead of feeling closer to my desires, I felt more disconnected than ever. The more I reached, the further things seemed to drift.

One day, I found myself on my mat, exhausted — not from the poses, but from efforting through life. I was in Virabhadrasana II, and I suddenly felt the contradiction. Here I was in a posture of strength and presence, yet everything in me was straining, grasping, pushing. My teacher’s words echoed:

“Let the effort go. Be in the shape, but don’t force it.”

Something clicked.

I realized I was treating life like a pose I needed to nail. And in doing that, I was missing the practice altogether.

Yoga teaches us aparigraha — non-attachment. Not in a cold or detached way, but in a way that allows us to release our grip, soften our expectations, and return to the present moment. That moment on the mat was the beginning of understanding what the Law of Detachment really means.

In yogic philosophy, the idea of detachment isn't about indifference. It's about deep presence without obsession. It's about taking action with care but letting go of the outcome. The Bhagavad Gita teaches this beautifully: "You have a right to your actions, but never to your fruits."

Off the mat, I began noticing how often I was trying to control outcomes — trying to make something happen. I was constantly future-focused, sending out energy rooted in lack. Wanting. Waiting. Worrying.

But here’s what I've come to understand, through both yoga and metaphysics: the universe doesn’t respond to effort. It responds to frequency.

Every potential reality already exists within the quantum field. Infinite versions of our lives are available to us. But we don’t access them by wishing or striving. We access them by matching their frequency. By becoming the version of ourselves that already lives that reality.

I was sending out the vibration of longing, of effort, of separation. And so, the universe mirrored that right back to me.

The moment I stopped chasing and started embodying, everything changed. I made a conscious shift: to breathe and live as though what I desired was already mine. To let my energy, not my effort, do the talking.

This wasn’t about pretending. It was about trusting. Aligning. Choosing to live my practice off the mat.

It was no longer: "How do I get there?" It became: "How do I be her now?"

My yoga practice deepened. Not just physically, but spiritually. I started teaching in a new way. My students felt it too — this calm, magnetic energy that said: You already have it all within you.

That was the beginning of Quantum Yoga Flow.

A class that isn’t about just poses or flexibility, but about energetic alignment. About weaving together ancient yogic wisdom with the understanding of the quantum field. Where you use your body and breath to step into a new state of being. A new timeline.

And from that state, things begin to move. People come. Opportunities arise. The right doors open. Not because you're chasing them, but because you’re finally a match.

In this way, yoga became more than a practice — it became a portal.

And from this portal, I began creating more than classes. I created anchors. Wearable reminders that carry this energy into your everyday life. Sweatshirts and malas, journals and meditations — each one a thread back to your truth.

Because if I’ve learned anything, it’s that you don’t create change by doing more. You create change by being different.

When you shift your energy, you shift your life.

So if you find yourself in that place of reaching, of trying, of exhausting your energy in pursuit of something you can’t quite touch — take a breath. Come back to your mat. Or to stillness. Or to the quiet in your own heart.

Let go of the forcing.

Let your state of being be the prayer.

This is the foundation of everything I share with the world now. Through classes, through conversation, through every product and experience:

You don’t get what you want by chasing. You receive it by being it.

And when you do?

The universe rises to meet you.

Unconditionally,

Michelle <3