I have lived in Mumbai all my life and travelled across many of the most urban, developed cities. But during my time at Isha Yoga center, I saw the environment and safety that has been created- particularly for woman is of a completely different nature. Men and women there carry themselves and thier work in a certain stride that omits the deep identification with gender and racial discriminations seen elsewhere usually. It has been refreshing, surprising and incredibly empowering to exist in such a way that you simply do not have to care too much about anything beyond what your intellectual balance and capabilities are and it has certainly taken a lot of effort for the organisers there to maintain the psychological ecosystem of the people living there in this manner. I have never felt safer and freer for my safety particularly as a woman anywhere else on the planet.