I know what it’s like to be locked into dogma. Initially, it’s satisfying, protective even, until that ideology stops working and turns against you. As a yoga teacher, there’s nothing worse than worrying about how best to keep your students « safe » and, in the process, feeling stuck and limited. It’s hard to realize that what you’re teaching isn’t really serving your students, because the truth is, it isn’t serving you either.

After 5 years of teaching yoga, I no longer felt inspired to create, but responsible to correct. I was showing my students what I thought was the « right » alignment instead of helping them move better. So I decided to step out of my comfort zone and break the rules. I studied other forms of movement and started to strengthen my muscles in other ways, which made me realize how weak I was.

It was then that I stopped teaching a set number of poses with precise alignment and started encouraging my students to explore the limitless potential of their bodies. I learned that the path of teaching leads us to ask better questions, not to seek definitive answers. It is an extraordinary way to study movement and the human experience, not because it guides us to unshakable certainties, but because the possibilities are endless, and never boring!