What seems to help a lot of yoga people discern their way out of abusive yoga communities is to get the feckin feck away from other yoga people and yoga ideas, at least for a while.
Rationalizing these behaviours revolves around making claims about what's going on inside these teachers' heads and shorts. The focus is mainly on their penises, as if the mechanics of erection or ejaculation clarifies power and consent more than the voices of women.
This essay first appeared in Yoga International: thank you to Kat Heagburg for editorial help. ____ You’ve probably heard a number of translations for the haṭha […]