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When did yoga become so white? One Seattle woman's quest to mix it up
The Seattle Times ^ | May 26, 2016 | Nicole Brodeur

Posted on 05/26/2016 12:07:52 PM PDT by Junior_G

At 8 Limbs Yoga, founder Anne Phyfe Palmer sees too many classes filled with mostly white people of privilege. She's setting out to change that, starting with cultural training for instructors...

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: twerking4blacks; yoga4whites
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Another guilt-ridden white liberal Seattleite anguishes over her own white privilege and the fact that so much of her business comes from white people.
1 posted on 05/26/2016 12:07:52 PM PDT by Junior_G
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You’d think yoga would earn at least a couple of points from the diversity over alles crowd for being invented by Asians, wouldn’t you?


2 posted on 05/26/2016 12:11:20 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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This is as insane as the BLM crowd disrupting New Yorkers at brunch because brunch is a “white thing”

So people who like Yoga,brunch,and probably ice hockey are all racists.

The country has gone stark,raving,mad.

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3 posted on 05/26/2016 12:11:21 PM PDT by Mears
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Before long, she will be reaping the “benefits” of welcoming people who she considers “oppressed.”


4 posted on 05/26/2016 12:11:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Go to the "Jungle" under I-5 and you'll find a whole "diverse" population for your yoga classes.
5 posted on 05/26/2016 12:12:05 PM PDT by PROCON
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I like my yoga white, unless it has some fruit mixed in with it.


6 posted on 05/26/2016 12:12:33 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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I sure don’t want to see some fruit doing yoga ...


7 posted on 05/26/2016 12:13:13 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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Gee, you live in Seattle, a city with just a hair shy of 70% whites, and you marvel that your Yoga class is dominated by white folks?


8 posted on 05/26/2016 12:13:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Yeah, the banana bends could be messy.


9 posted on 05/26/2016 12:13:55 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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founder Anne Phyfe Palmer sees too many classes filled with mostly white people

What...don't they pay good money to patronize your business?

10 posted on 05/26/2016 12:14:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Brilliant! If she were serious about her white privilege blubbering she’d go their in person to give classes.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 12:15:22 PM PDT by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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What? She can encourage enough blacks to go because they think it’s stupid?

Oh well!

Leave it up to an SJW to go after yoga of all things. These people seem to be in a permanent “child’s pose”.


12 posted on 05/26/2016 12:15:35 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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More darkies should ski and play hockey and swim, we whities should force them, Just like we used to make them pick our cotton. /Sarc


13 posted on 05/26/2016 12:16:20 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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Let me guess, they said that white folk were doing business at brunch rather than lunch to exclude black people?


14 posted on 05/26/2016 12:16:32 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Junior_G

The Beyoncé bedonk-a-donk + yoga pants = trouble!


15 posted on 05/26/2016 12:16:51 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Before long, she will be reaping the “benefits” of welcoming people who she considers “oppressed.”

Hang on to your possessions tightly ladies and gentlemen.

16 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:05 PM PDT by Stentor ("Hiding behind 'conservative' while America goes down the toilet is not acceptable anymore." LS)
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Too late...


17 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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When did yoga become so white?

C'mon!

Yoga is as white as bike lanes, organic food markets, and calling soccer "football".

Quit kidding around!

18 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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How come this doesn’t work in reverse? Why is there no liberal angst that rap music is dominated by blacks?? Or that the NBA is so dominated??? Why no liberal concerns about disproportionate numbers of homosexual men in the fashion industry???

If we are saying we need diversity in all areas of life, clearly liberals are cherry picking as they ignore certain areas where certain groups are clearly overrepresented.


19 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Just as white liberals lament there are not enough blacks that go to national parks.

Just let people enjoy what they want to enjoy!


20 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:46 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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