How do you feel when you are in alignment? Through her intuitive and highly individual lens, pilates pioneer Erika Bloom guides us to achieve that goal. Honoring ourselves begins with listening. We discuss how presence and embodiment help us develop an ongoing dialogue with our body, adding its signals to our “library of possibilities” of what we need to be well.To cultivate this awareness necessitates acceptance and openness. Erika shares her most significant personal journey, shedding the idea that the purpose of life is to be happy, and how trading expectation for simply experiencing enables lasting peace.