TRISH

“I stopped practicing for 7 years because I was frustrated with how capitalist the practice was and I struggled with what my role was as a white person practicing yoga. I most certainly didn’t teach it. But, eventually, I became very energetically out of balance and I was trying to figure out what worked for me. I knew yoga had helped so I decided that ethically for me the only was to do it was to go deep and really, actually learn about it—the philosophies, the context, etc. So, I would say that now sometimes I forget people view yoga as “exercise” and that I can be viewed as a “fitness instructor” because the asanas are a physical body maintenance for me that allows me to tap into my higher self.”