My experience also with Yoga - it’s a daily practice.

An interesting thought passed onto my by my teacher - all body tensions are tensions of the mind. Hatha Ying’s reaches to the mind through the body. With practice you learn to release faster. With regular practice your baseline changes.

The habit of letting go, continuously, in the body, brings up the possibility to release aspects that are seen as mind based.

Also, the mind insists that body and mind are separate but in practice they are not.