28/05/2026
Welcome to episode 1 in this series of chats called “Why Yoga and AI Cannot Co-exist”, where I walk us through the eight limbed path of Patañjali, and we develop our understanding of why AI flies directly in the face of, not only everything the wellness industry claims to stand for, but more specifically, yoga.
If you are a yoga teacher (and indeed a wellness pro!), or simply have a keen interest in wellness, yoga, and AI, then this series is for you, diva!
Today we are focusing specifically on ahimsā, which translates to non-violence. According to Patañjali “Himsā means to cause pain, thus ahimsā means not to cause pain. Even by your words and your thoughts, you can cause pain”.
This is explained further when we consider that “We need not even cause the pain directly for the reaction to occur”.
This is what happens when we use GenAI, such as ChatGPT; I specifically reference ChatGPT because it is the single largest donor of the Trump administration.
Every time a person uses GenAI to create a guided meditation, social media script or caption, they are directly feeding into a machine that is ultimately being used for harm, and to cause pain to every single one of us, globally.
That is himsā, the opposite of ahimsā. I remind you of the quote from this book, “We need not even cause the pain directly for the reaction to occur”.
Just because something does not directly affect you, does not give you the right to turn a blind eye, especially if you are a wellness pro who claims to “love Mother Earth”. Your use of GenAI to create meditation guides is literally ra**ng her of her water reserves. If you are a yoga teacher who talks about ahimsā in your practices, but you used GenAI to create your latest social media caption, you have both directly and indirectly enaged in himsā (causing pain).
You didn’t use it before it became popular (popular does not equate to cool by the way!), so I encourage you to ask yourself why you feel the need to use it now? I’m also interested to know if you’ll use it again after watching this video?
Ignorance is not bliss, diva! Let’s use our privilege for good!!
