I don't teach yoga to calm you down
I teach yoga so you have a space
in which you can meet your red hot rage
and you can listen to it and you can get
really interested in what it has to say
and if it needs more time
you can get interested in that
and maybe there's some insight there
and maybe the way your shoulders feel like steel
and your hips like wood
and the lifeline of your spine is switched off
has something to do with the pain of the world
but only you will know that
only you can find out
because only you understand the words your
body wants to, HAS to say
and I teach yoga so that you can get quiet
enough to hear them
and perhaps, maybe, possibly
tap into the pool of sweet silence behind the words
and if that calms you down?
lovely
but that's not why I teach yoga