Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. On the show today, I have one of my favorite yoga teachers, someone who I respect, admire and aspire to be like Judith Hanson Lassiter.

If you have listened to the Let's Talk Yoga podcast for a long time, you know Judith needs absolutely no introduction.

She has been on the show so many times before.

And we've had a wide range of conversations.

And I chose this particular episode to publish again because I received an email from

an alumni student who was upset about something.

And while I will not be going into the details of it, it threw me off

a little bit because I honestly could not imagine writing insulting email to my yoga teachers.

And honestly, that kind of tone and language was not warranted. And maybe it's a cultural thing.

Maybe it's how I was raised in India, or maybe it is just my own

ethics and respect and reverence for yoga teachers. That would never let me write even a sentence.

That would potentially go against my own values. So I was instantly reminded of this conversation

that I had with Judith Hansen Lasseter.

We talk about non-violent communication for yoga teachers because I honestly believe how you speak to

others is how they will speak to you and especially how you speak to your students.

They will mirror that back and they will engage back the same way. So my hope for you is to your students, they will mirror that back and they will engage back the same

way. So my hope for you is that your students will always treat you with respect, care and have

the grounding to have difficult conversations, but in a meaningful, respectful and clear way.

So I hope you find this episode insightful and we can always continue to get reminders

and we can always have reminders about Ahimsa, Aastaya, Mutita, Pratipaksha Bhaavanam,

all concepts we have discussed before.

You've heard me say this before many times on the podcast that we live our

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