Devon – I really love it when people have your experience of a course and end up leaving with more questions than answers. That is the key to learning. Dialogue is really the love language of our time. Thank you for recognising that and being so willing to engage with the content through the essay.

Jen – I really enjoyed the back and forth and to-and-fro notion of the discussion you had, as well as thinking through artefacts and what they mean based on context. As you say, striving for less harmful appropriation is indeed the goal.

@Tiffany Thank you for sharing your experience of teaching yoga in your own community. I don’t think we need to be pressured into being spiritual teachers – as spirituality is such an individual thing. I don’t know if you were in the session where I said I was asked by some students about my own religious beliefs and they were taken aback when I said, “That’s none of your business,” because it isn’t. You can indeed take a scientific approach and many Indian yoga teachers did exactly that. Good luck in your teaching and do stay in touch.