Dear yoga teachers,
Please, touch me. 🙏🏽 We have become so conservative in general as a society in the US. So afraid of offending...someone in someway...that we often seek guidance from some external authority to approve or validate what kind of touch is okay, and when and where.... With me you don’t need a waiver signed or other such documentation of informed consent. My presence in your class is me asking for your touch.
When I come to your class I am seeking a break from all of that proper PC BS. To quiet my mind and practice listening to the wisdom within my body. To breathe and to be led deeper into my asana practice through guiding and deepening touches and assists from you, my instructor.
Please do not just call out poses and walk about the room eyeballing us. Please do not only touch those students who are newer and need major alignment adjustments in order to prevent injury. Touch me ! Your intermediate to advanced student..so that I know you see me too. So we connect energetically, human to human. Push me gently deeper into a forward fold than I’m able to go on my own. Open my shoulder in triangle pose so that I can FEEL where I might be able to go one day in that posture all on my own. Get me out of my head and into my body and into the moment through physical connection. And hell, get out of YOUR head and into your body...read me energetically.
Please, remember to touch me.
Grateful,
Your Student