Safe Spaces

A few yoga teachers were sitting around the  local-organic-juice-kirtan-om-nagchampa-zen-freetrade-internet cafe when the idea of safe space came up…

‘When is it that you are aware of how safe your teaching space is?’, asked a pony-tailed Yin teacher while sipping his kale and beet smoothie.

The Americano drinking Bikram teacher with the gauged ears piped up first, ‘The space is safe when I tell them it is safe,’ she stated with a rather fierce smile.

‘When the student tries the first dropback while I am holding the hips, the space is safe’, said the lithe Ashtangi who wasn’t drinking anything, there was a Mysore class in 8 hours.

‘When a students breaks wind, maintains the pose and claims the passing of wind out loud, the space is safe’, replied the poorly tattooed Vinyasa teacher over his heavily cardomomed chai latte.