Just like that, we are in the final month of 2025 — the close of a nine-year cycle. What a ride… It reminds me of something Dumbledore once said to Harry, written on the Golden Snitch: “I open at the close.” Some gifts, some truths, some wisdom only reveal themselves when the time is right — when the chapter is ending, and you are ready to step into the next. Nine years ago, I hadn’t even heard of the word  somatics . The sensations I felt in yoga classes were mysterious to m