Tessa Sanderson is a yoga teacher and menstrual educator supporting women through all stages of the life cycle (cyclicalwisdom.com). She has also produced The Colouring Book for Pregnancy and Birth with supporting yoga nidras (tessayoga.co.uk)
I was lucky that when I first started learning yoga it came with a readymade community, or sangha. As I learnt meditation, a new lifestyle was supported by a group of like-minded people. Later, I decided that I wanted to teach yoga and embarked on a British Wheel of Yoga Diploma. Again, I found a group of yogis and yoginis who supported each other as we learnt. However, I wasn’t experiencing this in the different drop-in yoga classes I was trying around London, where I was living at the time. It all felt quite anonymous and when I r an my first classes I think they probably left people feeling well stretched, relaxed, but anonymous too. I would like to share how I have evolved community over time, why this is important and, as a teacher, why it makes business sense too.