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<p>Yoga teachers love to tell you about “the fullest expression of the pose.” I first started hearing this little phrase a few years ago when some Vinyasa teachers I know began to experiment with bringing inclusive language into their classrooms. Everybody was getting clear on the fact that saying “the real pose” was going to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The mythology of transformation is the cornerstone of advertising.&nbsp; Offering to reduce the large and small discomforts inherent in being human, what we yogis might call&nbsp;dukkha, is the bread and butter of marketing.&nbsp; Our dissatisfaction with ourselves and the world around us is used as a lure to entice us to buy cars, soda, shampoo, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A friend asked me what words I prefer to address the concept of fat bodies, and this is my response after thinking about it overnight. 1) I don&#8217;t like to use the word &#8220;overweight&#8221; because it implies that there is an ideal weight for a body, an ideal usually determined by someone else, often a [&hellip;]</p>