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Mantra Bella+Canvas 3001 and yoga is somehow theThe word precedes everything. Before the breath. Before the pose. Before the silence settles there is the word. She carries it like a seed in her chest. She doesn't speak it. She becomes it. Some women collect crystals. Some collect philosophies. She collects the words that hold her together when nothing else can. She has one tattooed on her ribs. She has one written on a Post it above her desk. She repeats one in the dark, when the world gets loud