This week in yoga Jen has been making us do a lot of hard poses and then castigating us to take it easy. Easy, she says. She asks: "What if you did this the easy way, instead of the hard way?" And I have to wonder, is there an easy way to do floating splits?

Easy feels like a radical idea to me. If I don't get to furrow my brow and suffer, well, what's the point?

Easy. Hm.