Power, Boundaries & Red Flags in Yoga: A Needed Conversation
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this Yogaland episode, Jason Crandell and I talk candidly about power dynamics in yoga, the potential for abuse of authority, and how students and teachers can protect what’s most important: trust, safety, consent, and healthy boundaries.
We’re not psychologists or legal experts — but we’ve been in the yoga world for decades, and we’ve seen how quickly a “teacher-student relationship” can become unhealthy when authority, charisma, and vulnerability collide. The goal of this conversation is simple: help more people recognize warning signs early, keep their autonomy intact, and stay connected to yoga in a way that’s grounded, mature, and safe.
You’ll hear us cover:
• The most common red flags in teacher-student dynamics
• Why critical thinking belongs in yoga spaces
• How “one true way” teaching can become coercive
• Charisma, attachment, and love-bombing in wellness culture
• Why discouraging cross-training or other teachers is a problem
• How “inner circles” and status tiers can create vulnerability
• Consent and hands-on adjustments: what students can ask for, and what teachers must respect
If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable in a class, confused by a teacher’s intensity, or pressured to stay loyal to one method or community — this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land. Welcome back, Jason. Hi, Andrea. |
| 0:05.7 | Last week was a solo cast. So it's nice to have you back. Oh, it was a solo cast. It was. |
| 0:10.1 | And then I did something the previous week. Yes. It was like a technique on grip and the function of shoulder. |
| 0:16.4 | Yep. Yeah. So here we are. Here we are. Before we get into our topic for today, I want to mention that you are, you're wrapping up all the production and all of the work on a new program that you're going to be launching really soon. |
| 0:32.1 | Sequencing 2.0. |
| 0:33.9 | It's ready. |
| 0:34.8 | Yay. |
| 0:35.2 | Next week. |
| 0:36.5 | Yes. |
| 0:36.8 | I mean, by the time everybody hears this. It'll be just about a week. It'll be about a week. Yeah.0. It's ready. Yay. Next week. Yes. I mean, by the time everybody hears this, it'll be just about a week. |
| 0:40.2 | It'll be about a week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to talk a little bit about how it's different from |
| 0:44.7 | sequencing 1.0? It is different than the artist sequencing. So it has maybe 20% crossover. So I talk a lot |
| 0:51.7 | about the master sequencing template and a few other concepts. |
| 0:54.9 | But really what this is a deep dive into is sequencing beyond one-off individual classes. |
| 1:03.2 | So really thinking about classrooms as opportunities for continuity and teaching curriculum, teaching series, teaching workshops, |
| 1:14.1 | and teaching online classes, right? And so this is just going to provide everybody with the |
| 1:21.1 | knowledge and the scope and the confidence, honestly, to expand their scope as teachers. I am so excited about it. I think it's the best |
| 1:29.5 | course I've done. Oh, good. And my courses are amazing. Exactly. No, I'm super happy with it. |
| 1:35.5 | As I'm putting together the landing page and learning more about it, I think the thing that sounds |
| 1:40.7 | really appealing to me is that it's very process oriented. So you really do |
| 1:45.8 | breakdowns for them. It kind of reminds me of football where they're like, you're drawing like |
| 1:49.6 | the thing on the board. I'm going to, I'm going to say something about this, okay, which you know, |
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