My Dead Sister might be Teaching yoga to a 4-year-old.

Whenever I picture my sister Lauren, I always see her at 24, the age she was when she died.

No matter how many times I’ve asked myself “What would she have looked like in her 50s?”or “Would she have had kids?”, she’s always frozen at 24.

Until this week.

While working with one of my clients (shared with permission), she told me that her daughter has an imaginary friend named “Lauren.”

For context, I’ve been working with this client since before she got pregnant, helping her strengthen her body and mind for childbirth. The result of that work is this very daughter.

During our session, she told me a story that completely shifted how I see my sister’s energy.

Her husband had gone to get their daughter ready for dinner. When he walked into her room, he froze, then called my client to confirm what he was seeing.

Their 4-year-old was in the middle of a full-on yoga practice; Upward-Facing Dog, Down Dog, Plank, Warrior.
A complete flow.

When my client asked, “Where did you learn to do yoga?”  (because she’s never taken a single class) her daughter giggled and said,

“Lauren is teaching me.”

Now, my sister was a dancer. She passed before yoga became mainstream, and she never practiced it.

But I’ve been teaching yoga for over 20 years. In the early days of my grief, I often used yoga to connect with her energy.

So… could it be that Lauren has learned yoga on the other side, maybe even picked up some of my teaching energy, and is now sharing it with a little girl open enough to receive it?

Whether this is my own fascination or something far bigger than my understanding, it’s challenged a belief I knew I was holding:
That Lauren is frozen at 24.

Because if energy can teach… maybe it can still learn.
Maybe our loved ones don’t stop evolving when their bodies do.

Just like us, maybe they keep growing, through connection, through curiosity, through love.

Go with Power,
Jason

Try this Simple Practice:

Learning from your Body

Step 1 – Notice What’s Alive

Close your eyes for a moment.
Take one slow breath in.
Feel one part of your body that feels most awake right now,  maybe your heartbeat, your fingertips, your breath.

That’s your “energy.”

It’s just aliveness, nothing mystical, just you being here.

Step 2 – Ask a Simple Question

Silently ask:

“What are you trying to teach me today?”

Then don’t think.
Just notice what shows up, maybe a feeling, a word, a memory, or nothing at all.
The noticing is the practice.

Step 3 – Say Thank You

Take one last deep breath and whisper,

“Thank you for teaching me.”

That’s it.

No deep meditation. No trying to channel anything.
Just a daily reminder that life itself is always teaching us, even the energy inside our own breath.