Why Students Don’t Want to Be Touched In Yoga Classes
Touch is a controversial subject in the yoga world.
Is it nourishing and healing?
Or is it triggering and re-traumatising?
Actually, it’s not that simple.
Join Dr Lauren Tober for this latest video episode to hear one experience of when a teacher touched her repeatedly and inappropriately in class, and how difficult she found it to speak up.
Dr Lauren also shares FIVE reasons why your yoga students may not want to be touched in your yoga classes.
This episode is the first in a series of touch and consent, and it’s not to be missed!
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As a Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher of nearly two decades and the author of Mental Health Aware Yoga: A Guide for Yoga Teachers, I'm passionate about integrating yoga and psychology on the mat, in the counselling room and in the world.
With the growing interest in mental health and yoga, yoga students are attending yoga classes for the mental health benefits in unprecedented numbers.
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