You’ve planned the sequence. You’ve lugged your props across a car park in the rain. You’ve lit a candle that immediately sets off someone’s asthma. And then you stand there wondering whether the whole thing is doomed.

Many people finish cancer treatment knowing that movement could help them regain strength, mobility and confidence, but don't yet feel ready to attend a group class. The growth of online yoga for cancer patients reflects a wider need for accessible forms of support after treatment.

In recent years I have seen an increasing amount of rhetoric suggesting that if yoga teachers are not using their platforms to speak out, attend protests, or publicly support particular causes, they are somehow failing to live their yoga. The implication is often that silence equals complicity. That not taking a public stand is evidence of indifference.

I’m not convinced that cramming information into exhausted people over long weekends is always the best way to learn yoga.