When something bad happens whatever it is and whoever it’s happening to I dissociate. It takes work for me to get back into it and face it and sometimes I choose not to but not today. Racism is not something I’m willing to disassociate from.

I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body.  I exercised obsessively from 16 to 29. I used to do sit ups whilst cleaning my teeth, do workout videos, go to the gym, run, do yoga and...