Valerie Moselle 9/10/22 Valerie Moselle 9/10/22

MY NEW YOGA PLACE IS NOT A SAFE SPACE. HOW COULD IT BE?

I’ve been trying hard to stop teaching yoga, but I can’t seem to help myself.

So after closing Luma, my downtown Santa Cruz center, in 2021 amid the pandemic, I have recently rented another place. But as much as I’d like it to be, it’s not a safe space…

Originally published in Lookout Santa Cruz, Community Voices, August 14th, 2022.

Valerie Moselle 11/8/19 Valerie Moselle 11/8/19

CO-CREATING SAFER YOGA AND SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES

It never occurred to me when I started practicing yoga in 1993 that a yoga space could be anything other than a place of safety. I want to share with you a story that illustrates, and possibly illuminates, why I feel it can and should be- more than ever.