Yoga is all about compassion. Psychotherapy relies on it. Even music and writing (that’s 4 out of my 7 jobs) have empathy and understanding of humanness at their heart. Yet so many of us still need “permission” to be compassionate to ourselves, and when it comes with the label of a disorder, it comes with implications. Are we simply pathologising difference?

If you dance in any form, if you come to a vinyasa yoga class where we move and breathe in time to a steady beat, you will have felt the impact moving to music has on your energy, mood, and how lost you get in the moment. But what is happening in your brain and body to have that effect? Any why?