I Teach Yoga! Loved this: "the idea that people have about yoga is often colored by sexualized images and a work-out mentality that has been bred deep into us. Ironically, these entrenched mores that motivate people to come to yoga are the very thing that I am hoping to undo through practice. Sometimes I grow weary of always having to explain how and why what I do is not meeting the public expectation."

I Teach Yoga! Loved this: "the idea that people have about yoga is often colored by sexualized images and a work-out mentality that has been bred deep into us. Ironically, these entrenched mores that motivate people to come to yoga are the very thing that I am hoping to undo through practice. Sometimes I grow weary of always having to explain how and why what I do is not meeting the public expectation."

I Teach Yoga

A number of long-time yoga teachers are deciding to stop referring to what they teach as yoga. In the past, the term yoga represented a freedom to explore and discover truths outside western cultural norms. Now that yoga has largely become a western cultural norm, fueled by the advertising p

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