The Vibe is a lie:

facilitated by Anne Esguerra & Liz Kovarsky

Physical exercise was never the true purpose of yoga.

Yoga is a living tradition thousands of years old, rooted in India and North Africa — and it’s not about putting your foot behind your head. To truly honor yoga’s roots, we must practice all eight limbs of yoga, not just one small piece: asana (the physical postures). Many of these limbs call us toward social and personal transformation — toward awareness, compassion, and justice. Yoga carries a long history of resisting colonization and supremacy. Yet when it reached the West, it was commodified— repackaged and sold back to us as $25 classes in $100 leggings. Yoga is not fitness. It’s a practice of liberation.

Liberation from the internal barriers of the ego — self-judgment, shame, fear, and clinging to comfort. These patterns create suffering and cloud our ability to live with presence and peace.

Liberation from external barriers — systemic oppression, trauma, and cultural narratives (like productivity culture) that reinforce disconnection and over-identification with the ego — (re: $100 yoga pants).

For many, these internal and external struggles are deeply intertwined. Through yoga, we begin to untangle both — to remember our wholeness, our interconnectedness, and our capacity for liberation. This is where we begin with, The Vibe Is A Lie: Unf*ck Your Yoga Teaching