Priya Chaphekar

If you have been thinking about how to organise a yoga retreat, or you have already run one and are trying to make sense of what went wrong or right, this is for you.

There is a version of yoga culture that treats suffering as proof of work. The harder the better. The sweatier, the more legitimate. If you are not destroyed by the end, did it even count? I used to live inside that version. And then my body had something to say about it. After my health scare, I stopped feeding my ego what I can only describe as Swiss rolls of suffering. The practice became floatier, more fluid. The intensity stayed, but the intention behind it completely changed. There is a...

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