On my hands and knees on the mat, bending my spine into cat and cow, I can hear my girlfriend in the closet on a work call. I think of getting up to grab my headphones to play a track of white noise that I have saved on my phone, to drown out the work talk and focus on my yoga. Then I realize my breath provides a natural white noise. As I am bending concave into cat and exhaling through my nose, it is loud enough that I can hear almost nothing else other than my breath. And the same for inhaling. This realization inspired a new attention on my breath, as a noise-cancelling mechanism, in addition to a life-giving force.