The mat waits like a crime scene.
In Chapter 3, “Sasha and the Art of Falling Over” Ambassador Whiskers delivers on his first promise: humiliation as curriculum. Lawrence, still reeling from the idea that a talking cat is now his life coach, is marched to yoga—the most peaceful battlefield known to humankind.
What follows is part slapstick, part sacrament. There’s Lycra, sweat, a betrayal of hamstrings, and a trumpet solo of mortification so pure it could cleanse a soul. When Lawrence falls face-first into the thigh of a goddess named Sasha, it’s not seduction—it’s education. And somehow, he survives it.
Sasha’s patience is quiet, luminous, and devastating. Her simple “You’re doing fine” opens him like a door he didn’t know was locked. Under her guidance, and Whiskers’ unhelpful commentary (“A posture both noble and tragic!”), Lawrence discovers that being ridiculous isn’t death—it’s proof of life.
This is the first real transformation in Ambassador Whiskers’ Curriculum of Desire: laughter as oxygen, shame as permission, failure as initiation. By the time he leaves the studio, dripping with both sweat and reluctant enlightenment, something in him has cracked open.
If you’ve ever fallen out of a yoga pose, a relationship, or your own idea of control, this chapter’s for you.
Ambassador Whiskers calls it Lesson One: Humiliation.
He says we can’t skip ahead.
— Eric Ross
P.S. Whiskers reminds you that comments are a form of confession. He reads them religiously. Absolution may be available... on request.