Is it appropriate for Yoga teachers and students to engage romantically?
If so, when? And how? I am thirty years old, male, single, heterosexual, and have made a living teaching yoga for the last five years. I was invited to teach at an early age, my physical ability and “know-how” in the technicalities of asana forms seemed to make people think I was qualified. I touched students indiscriminately and used my position as the teacher to try and impress those I found attractive. There was no malicious intent, quite the opposite. I was just young, horny, and immature. As a man and a teacher. I remember when it first dawned on me that I was being reckless and inappropriate. That not everyone is comfortable being touched in the same way that I might be. That practice space is sacred and not an appropriate venue in which to engage others in a sexual manner. One of my first steady long-term students whom I saw once a week for over a year, had suffered sexual abuse as a child. I saw our practice together as an opportunity for her to receive genuine kindness from a
