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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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To: VanShuyten

People from the Indian subcontinent are still classified as “white” by the U.S. racial division system but as “Asian” by the Brits. Go figure.


41 posted on 05/26/2016 12:50:41 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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To: Vigilanteman

People in India cover the whole color spectrum.

I guess they've got white, tan, khaki, cafe-con-leche, and black privilege, all at once.

42 posted on 05/26/2016 1:04:35 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Department of Redundancy Department.)
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To: Junior_G

Can’t they just accept the fact that black people don’t like to do everything white people do?


43 posted on 05/26/2016 1:12:29 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: LydiaLong

The deep conspiracy against Asian country and western singers. More at 11.


44 posted on 05/26/2016 1:26:37 PM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: Junior_G

Ok, so let’s even up the sports world too with the percentage of crackers that should be on the teams, instead of AAs.


45 posted on 05/26/2016 1:28:26 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Lol, where’s their inner “happy baby”? These types poison everything they touch. Yoga, whatever it really “is” (there’s debate), is certainly not about chaos and disorder in the mind. Certainly not about negativity.


46 posted on 05/26/2016 1:37:18 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Junior_G

In an epi of “Dead Like Me”, the yoga instructor was black. Gave a lesson to Mandy Patinkin before moving on to that great big yoga mat in the sky.


47 posted on 05/26/2016 1:40:41 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Junior_G

Yoga requires focus and effort.


48 posted on 05/26/2016 1:47:53 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Mears

The same’s true with swimming, hiking, kyaking, and bicycling. Suck it up; people are free to choose their own passtimes.


49 posted on 05/26/2016 1:49:43 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: VanShuyten

Yeah, outrage at white people doing things from non western cultures is the latest fad amongst SJWs.


50 posted on 05/26/2016 2:37:28 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Heck, yes. When we lived in Japan, my wife became good friends with a lady from southern India (Chennai area). Since her husband was a co-worked of mine, we became friends as well.

A couple of weeks before they went home, we invited them for dinner. I asked them if there were anything they couldn't eat, expecting to get a list of meats.

To our surprise, they said anything was fine, even beef. We had a long chat into the night about what the Indians from the south thought of those from the north (the bureaucrat and government official class).

It was as good as a barbecue in the Carolinas sharing our thoughts about the DC ruling class.

52 posted on 05/26/2016 2:45:07 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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To: Vigilanteman
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?

Absolutely not. White people have now culturally appropriated yoga. Down with white people.

53 posted on 05/26/2016 2:46:54 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vigilanteman
"It was as good as a barbecue in the Carolinas sharing our thoughts about the DC ruling class."

Yow! And was there alcohol, too? Just to warm things up a bit...

54 posted on 05/26/2016 2:51:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of Huh!)
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To: Junior_G
Yogi--The Ivy Three (1960)

Hey, Boo Boo!

I saw a kook who was standing on his head.
He flipped his lid like he should have been in bed.
I said, "what gives, man?"
He looked at me and said:

"I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby."

Hey, Boo Boo!

And then the cat started strutting on hot coals.
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes.
He sang right out from the bottom of his soles:

"I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby."

Hey, Boo Boo!

"Listen here, baby," the yogi man said,
"It's all a matter of the mind.
Just commune with your innermost being,
And baby, you'll be just fine."

He was hip, all right, wasn't he?

So I tried my best to dig my inner me.
I walked on coals, my head below my knee.
Until at last, I heard me say perfectly,

"I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.

Hey, Boo Boo!
Hey, Boo Boo!
Hey, Boo Boo!

55 posted on 05/26/2016 3:10:38 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Travis T. OJustice

A teacher at a gang-infested high school in Norwalk, Calif. told me that several students were afraid to go on an outing to Yosemite National Park because it was probably some other gang’s turf.


56 posted on 05/26/2016 3:14:08 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Junior_G

Time for Whitey clients to boycott her business if they are not appreciated.
Then she’ll have plenty of empty studio space for diversity.
Problem solved!


57 posted on 05/26/2016 3:15:41 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why is there no liberal angst that rap music is dominated by blacks??

Because it isn't. At least not beyond the "artists". The rest of the industry is run by white men and most of the money is raked in by old white men.

It is dang funny to me that the guy who promoted "gangster" rap is so white he practically glows in the dark.

58 posted on 05/26/2016 3:18:01 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Junior_G
why doesn't this thing let the coloreds in for free then? or open a shop in the middle of the ghetto??

feh...

59 posted on 05/26/2016 4:21:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Junior_G

What passes for ‘yoga’ in the West is a joke - nothing more than a multi-culti form of calisthenics.

White housewives in leotards.


60 posted on 05/26/2016 11:54:51 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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