I don't teach yoga to calm you down

I teach yoga so you have a space

in which you can meet your red hot rage

and you can listen to it and you can get

really interested in what it has to say

and if it needs more time

you can get interested in that

and maybe there's some insight there

and maybe the way your shoulders feel like steel

and your hips like wood

and the lifeline of your spine is switched off

has something to do with the pain of the world

but only you will know that

only you can find out

because only you understand the words your

body wants to, HAS to say

and I teach yoga so that you can get quiet

enough to hear them

and perhaps, maybe, possibly

tap into the pool of sweet silence behind the words

and if that calms you down?

lovely

but that's not why I teach yoga