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By Lyme Anon

Nearly ten years ago, I woke up one morning, shocked to learn that I could barely lift my own feet off the floor. No matter how hard I struggled, all I could do was shuffle. It was scary, and unfortunately the latest in a long list of bizarre health problems I'd been experiencing that year.

The doctor diagnosed me with Parkinsonians disorder, and suggested I try hot yoga to try restore some movement. He otherwise had no idea what caused my sudden mobility problem or how to fix it. About a year later, I would learn that what I actually had was Lyme Disease, but that's a different story.

I had never done yoga before in my life, let alone hot yoga, so I figured why not -- I was willing to try absolutely anything to be able to walk like normal again.

It was difficult to adjust to the heat at the beginning, but I kept going back again and again.

Eventually, after months of dedicated practice, my body started to heal. The shuffling went away, and I could walk normally again. I noticed that some of the other strange symptoms I had been experiencing started to clear up, too. It turns out that if you get your body hot enough, the spirochetes that cause Lyme become immobile and stop replicating effectively.

Hot yoga was literally helping my body heal.

But it wasn't just a physical journey, it was also the emotional and spiritual journey that is yoga which allowed me to fully regain my life and become myself again after an absolutely terrifying and difficult battle with Lyme.

The hot yoga studio is now my sacred space.

I go there to find peace, and to continue my physical, emotional, and spiritual journey.

I do not go there to listen to politics.

I hear plenty of that kind of talk literally everywhere else I go.

And even though I own an impressive stack of political t-shirts, hats and even yoga pants, I never ever wear politically charged items into the studio out of respect to my fellow yogis who I assume are looking for an opportunity to deepen their practice, not to hear political virtue signaling.

So when I went to my sacred space for yoga today, I was in for a rude awakening.

I have been taking classes with this particular teacher for years by now. She is vibrant, happy, and kind — a warm, caring soul with the most beautiful and loving energy ever. Her classes are informative, instructive, challenging and fun. Her own practice is gorgeous, and I am grateful for all that she has taught me. I rarely miss her class, and sometimes I even double-up, taking both of her Friday classes, power and yin, a nice balance.

But not today.

I barely made it through one class.

It's abundantly clear my teacher has been deeply, negatively affected by the super-charged political environment, and she's no longer able to keep it to herself.

Within the first five minutes of class, she mentioned "concentration camps"...

Then it was Greenland... the murder of Renee Good... and those "poor" people who are having to protest against ICE in Minneapolis.

I found myself rolling my eyes, mumbling and griping about the unwanted political commentary under my breath. The woman practicing next to me heard my comments, and seemed to share my frustration. We struck up a lovely conversation after class. Turns out, she's married to a pastor...of a social justice church... but that does not mean she wants to hear political commentary in the place where she comes to practice yoga, either.

We agreed that scared spaces should be free from biased political messaging, and prayed that our yoga teacher could find a healthier way to process her political frustrations outside of the studio.

I know she's not the only person struggling to make sense of what's going on in the world right now.

And I wish there was an easy way to explain it all without sounding like a conspiracy theorist to my liberal friends who are being cruelly manipulated by powerful forces into believing the most absurd things.

Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu.

Namaste.

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