*I want to offer a disclaimer here about my background as a yoga instructor. Since 2016 I have taught yoga to groups that embodied a spectrum of ages, abilities, races and economic classes. The norms of the yoga and wellness industry can be really damaging to people who fall outside of white, middle and upper class, able-bodied, cisgendered folks, and I have been personally harmed by the practices and power dynamics that happen in mainstream yoga spaces. While I honor the teachers, training, personal growth, and opportunities I have had from the yoga industry, I am at a point of reckoning with my discomfort with the colonial nature of white people like me commodifying yoga, and the abusive dynamics that pervade many yoga spaces. To honor my anti-colonial and anti-ableism values, I don't know whether I want to identify with an industry that is so toxic in these dimensions. My reflections on this matter are still a work in progress, but that is why I haven't listed yoga instruction as one of my services offered. However, I also know that the movement practices, breathwork techniques and philosophical understandings from Yoga's lineage are tremendous tools for self-actualization. At this time, I am comfortable incorporating yoga movement practices into my work with clients when there is a basis of understanding that I am actively invested in dismantling uneven power dynamics, and that my privileges of access to these Indian practices came from systems of injustice. Please be patient with me while I untangle my truth out of the mesh of capitalism and racism, and if you have feedback for me, particularly if you have joined my classes in the past, I would be honored to receive it.