Touch, in yoga classes, can be tricky. The term “adjustment” is often used as a catchall term for many different kinds of touching, and this ambiguity allows for some pretty egregious boundary ...
When I first started practicing yoga, I quickly got discouraged. I often felt lost in class. Certain poses didn’t feel right in my body, and I assumed that there was something wrong with me. After ...
Yoga enthusiasts have had to face tough conversations in the past week after a New York Times article detailed the history of consent violation and inappropriate touching by yoga instructors to their ...
Yoga studios are vulnerable places. Even under ideal circumstances, most yoga involves gamely contorting to the best of one’s ability, soft underbelly literally exposed, waiting for a teacher to walk ...
Last week, the New York Times published a story describing yoga gurus with long histories of giving students overtly sexual and non-consensual adjustments and getting away with it. I've been teaching ...
Learn with a self-proclaimed fat yoga teacher suggests a wide-legged forward fold with blocks to anyone who has a bigger belly. “This adjustment works because there’s no space in a forward fold for ...
Pregnancy brings significant changes to how women experience their bodies and daily movements. Many expectant mothers turn to yoga for relaxation, stress relief, and relief from common discomforts ...