Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 23 minutes ago
Poem by Tracy K. Smith
Art + Animation by Daniel Bruson: danielbruson.com
Music by Gautam Srikishan: floatingfast.com
with creative direction by Erin Colasacco: erincolasacco.com
Read Chapter 2: Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and our human hunger to know the universe at The Marginalian: themarginalian.org/2022/02/11/universe-in-verse-animated-hubble
Poem by Tracy K. Smith
Art + Animation by Daniel Bruson: danielbruson.com
Music by Gautam Srikishan: floatingfast.com
with creative direction by Erin Colasacco: erincolasacco.com
Read Chapter 2: Henrietta Leavitt, Edwin Hubble, and our human hunger to know the universe at The Marginalian: themarginalian.org/2022/02/11/universe-in-verse-animated-hubble







![In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett
Watch this special in-studio recording of Krista Tippetts 2006 interview with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive.
Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness youve never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your body.
Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978. But he likes to say that his experience is only more extreme, not so different, from that of everyone else. Hes written, We are all leaving our bodies — this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process. Matthew’s intricate knowledge of that inward silence, which he was forced to befriend after the noisy connections which most of us take for granted were severed — it’s revelatory. So is his insistence that it’s not possible to live more deeply in your body — in all its grace and all its flaws — without becoming more compassionate towards all of life. And: if you do yoga, you will never think about what it is affecting inside you in the same way again.
Krista sat with Matthew Sanford just after hed published his beautiful book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.
[This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode Matthew Sanford — The Bodys Grace. Listen here: https://youtu.be/zFP5EknSJt8 ] In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hJ5DPLuChKw/mqdefault.jpg)


