They began with breath. The leader, an easy-voiced man named Oleg, counted in low Russian: inhalation long as the sea, exhalation soft as the dunes. The movement was unhurried, a sequence that woke joints and calmed the mind: slow lunges, spinal rolls, sun salutations adapted to knees and weathered shoulders. As they moved, the sea’s murmur and gull-song composed a steady counterpoint. Sweat and salt met on skin; the wind flattened hair into braids of light.