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Touching in yoga is touchy indeed - and it should be | Sasha Brown-Worsham

Yoga studios must set ground rules for physical contact. We can’t play fast and loose with consent
Yoga can be a touch-heavy activity. And that touch should be consensual. Photograph: Pakin Songmor/Getty Images

Despite what Instagram – with its abundance of sexy, gorgeous and limber influencers – might have you believe, yoga is not a sexual practice. The true practice has one goal: to calm the fluctuations in the mind. In other words, authentic yoga is the very opposite of the cluttered and hedonistic space yoga currently occupies for many.

My mother was a yoga teacher before it was cool, back in the 1980s when moms like mine made us eat carob instead of chocolate

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