The touch of the teacher during the practice of yoga can be disruptive if the touch is not one that allows. Martia Rachman is an “allower” – much like the potter who holds the clay and waits long enough to hear what the clay is asking for. The clay or the human may ask for support, release, or remolding – whatever is needed in the moment. If these desires are felt in the hands of the “allower,” the yogi/the teacher who is hearing the call of the recipient and is feeling the new self rising, the experience is profound and life-changing. It is like the air which one breathes… ever-changing and at the same time quiet and at rest within. This is the art of the “allower”: simultaneous transcendence. Martia Rachman is the allower, the artist, the yogi.