Over at the blog Recovering Yogi is an excellent post by Kimberly Johnson about the excessive positivity found in many yoga communities. It's also a problem in Buddhist sanghas, and other spiritual groups, and one I have written about before. That secret code is the code of constant positivity within the yoga community. In the yoga world, you are not supposed to disagreeeven though everybody doesand you certainly are not supposed to be disagreeable. Of course, most people have strong opinions about which kind of yoga is better (their kind) and what the other schools dont understand, because if they did, clearly they would convert to the right school. The right thing, in yoga, is always the thing that you do. But most people dont express it openly. Better to feign peaceful coexistence and call it acceptance. However, I have found both in myself and in my peers a lack of courage to engage in truthful dialogue around teaching philosophy and practice. I didnt have the nerve to tell my...
