I had taken class from this instructor for over a year. I'd been adjusted hundreds of times. A firm lifting press of my hips in Downward Dog, a gentle shifting of my back in Twisting Warrior, and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Hands up if you’ve ever been injured by hands-on adjustments in yoga class. Or felt a little creeped out by one. Or wondered why the teacher is even helping you in the first place, as if going “deeper ...

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 ...

I still remember the first time. While in downward facing dog, the instructor placed her hand on my mid-back and pressed down, enough that I knew what she wanted my back to do, but not so much that I ...