I Recorded Something Called Gloriously Human
By Joaquin Brown, CTO, Yoga Wake Up
A few days ago I wrote about the AI noise and about how exhausting it is. And how, especially as someone who works in tech, I’m wondering deep down: what’s next, how will it impact my future and the future of this giant spinning rock we all live on?
Judging by the many responses I received (more than usual!), you all are feeling it too!
I knew that writing about it would not be enough. The question deserved something you could actually do something about. Something you could feel, not just read. So I recorded my first meditation - and I’m really excited to share it with you.
Gloriously Human is a new 5-minute voiced reflection from Joaquin, now live in the Yoga Wake Up app. It's about being unapologetically imperfect, and that being exactly what makes you beautiful.
Listen to a sample
Why I recorded it
I'm an engineer. I build things. When something feels unresolved, my instinct is to make something that resolves it.
The AI conversation feels unresolved. Not because anyone is wrong, but because the arguments, even the good ones, were not landing with me. And the thing I think we need isn't another argument. It’s something that should land in the body. In the breath. In the specific, physical, human experience of being alive.
So I recorded a 5-minute reflection. I called it Gloriously Human.
I want to be honest about what it is and what it isn't. It isn't a guided meditation with some breathing. It isn't a yoga class. It's me, talking to you, about what I actually think about being imperfect. About the stiffness when you wake up. About the person you texted yesterday that you're still thinking about. About what no machine will ever experience, and why that matters more than we're giving it credit for right now.
What it's about
The meditation starts with a breath. A real one. Not a perfect yoga breath. Just the one you're already doing, right there, which your body is doing automatically and generously, for you.
From there it moves through what a normal morning actually contains. The stiffness. The doubt. The dream you half-remember. The complicated relationships. The things you feel deeply, the music that wrecks you, the movie scenes that make you cry.
It ends with something I believe completely: your imperfections make you perfectly you! The proof that you feel things, care about things, show up for things. The proof that you are alive in a way that no system will ever replicate.
The last line is: you are the real thing. Now go be it.
Where to find it
Gloriously Human is live in the Yoga Wake Up app now. You'll find it in the meditation section.
It's 5 minutes. Do it in bed if you want. That's what the app is for.
If you've been away from Yoga Wake Up for a while, this is a good reason to come back. Not because we ask anything of you. Just because I made something for this moment, and the moment is now.
