Great post and topic. Thank you Amelia for all you are doing in this space.
I do think it’s important to be very careful about who we hand the microphone to when we talk about safe community building. I’ve seen far too many well-meaning podcast hosts interviewing teachers and spiritual leaders with documented abuse allegations, sometimes even asking them to speak about safety in spiritual communities. (Please, you have a duty to research more.)
The teacher who abused me was even invited to sit on a panel for a course on trauma-informed yoga.
Unfortunately discussions like this can be the perfect place for abusers to hide.
Yes, this is a really good point, thank you. Unfortunately, in my interviews I spoke to more than one person who talked about something similar - the yoga teacher who caused them harm also claimed to be 'trauma-informed'.
Thank you for this. And amen. We can’t stick our heads in the sand and preach peace and love and to me that’s all very “non yoga” anyways. Appreciate what you are doing in this space!
Great post and topic. Thank you Amelia for all you are doing in this space.
I do think it’s important to be very careful about who we hand the microphone to when we talk about safe community building. I’ve seen far too many well-meaning podcast hosts interviewing teachers and spiritual leaders with documented abuse allegations, sometimes even asking them to speak about safety in spiritual communities. (Please, you have a duty to research more.)
The teacher who abused me was even invited to sit on a panel for a course on trauma-informed yoga.
Unfortunately discussions like this can be the perfect place for abusers to hide.
Yes, this is a really good point, thank you. Unfortunately, in my interviews I spoke to more than one person who talked about something similar - the yoga teacher who caused them harm also claimed to be 'trauma-informed'.
Thank you for this. And amen. We can’t stick our heads in the sand and preach peace and love and to me that’s all very “non yoga” anyways. Appreciate what you are doing in this space!
Thank you
Thank you Amelia, such important work!