Stress. Grief. Anger. Focus. Exhaustion - it all settles into the body before it ever reaches the head. In the muscles. In the joints. In the ligaments and in the places we don't think to notice - until they stop working properly.
Yoga offers the most direct tools I've found for working through all of it - not performing your way out of it, not optimizing it away. It releases what the body has been holding, restores how you move, and gives you real tools to use when the next hard thing comes.