Where AI doesn’t win

The world is very noisy about the potential streamlining of industries, increase in productivity and efficiency for service providers with the power of Artificial Intelligence. Wherever you look, if it’s possible, it’s been adopted. Your customer service agents are nigh on impossible to reach, your support centres are all automated, and some may say that the creative process has been hijacked because there is no need to solve a problem without Gemini, Siri, or Alexa.

But I really believe that one industry can remain irreplacable, and that is the experience provided by yoga teachers. The way humans connect to humans, guide eachother, share their energy and their magic is simply unreachable with AI. To foster that deep connection takes time, trust, and alignment of what lights us up, both individually and as a collective.

Yoga teachers across all forms, lineages and styles carry something that AI cannot quite get to. The ability to soften expectation, teach the people in the room/shala/class environment, and connect beyond the breath and movement. The ability to hold space, nurture with silence as well as activity. The ability to feel through a sequence intuitively, becoming a vessel for whatever it is that their students need from class.

It’s beyond performative, it’s impossible to authentically replicate, and I’m so happy this precious work is forever protected by the significance of that human interaction.