White women co-opted pandemic yoga. Now, South Asian instructors are taking it back

NBC News via msn ^ | 13 Apr 2021 | Sakshi Venkatraman

[blueplum]

For Melissa Shah, yoga has always been entirely Indian. Her first memories of the practice don’t include top buns, athleisure wear or even exercise. ...

...Shah said she felt a sense of belonging in learning unfiltered yoga among other South Asians in Queens, New York, where she grew up. But when she started visiting white-dominated studios outside her community, she says she felt excluded and uneasy, like she was participating in a foreign practice. ...

...South Asian instructors like Shah say they’ve been working to “decolonize” an industry that for decades has centered white elites.... But the cultural appropriation runs deep, experts say, and fighting it will take time....

[nickcarraway]

At one time, basketball was considered a “Jewish sport.”

[robowombat]

Last I heard Paltrow was into vaginal steaming

[Reeses]

"It gave me a little bit of a reprieve from the really, really negative voice that was constantly going off in my head telling me that I was too fat, that I was too dark."

Just stop using the fat dark term "Indian" and confuse white people instead with the thin light term "South Asian".

[PghBaldy]

Melissa is an ancient Indian name...

[ifinnegan]

Insufferable white liberal democrat women ruin everything.

[snippy_about_it]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼!

[blueplum]

I’ll vouch for ballet :) Even the most basic stretching exercises helps maintain balance skills, which are important as one gets older

[blueplum]

it's all calisthenics to me, but yoga is easier to say

[csvset]

Truly lovely....I adore a nice yoga body ✅

[I want the USA back]

The author of that story is insane.

[17th Miss Regt]

I’ve been stretching like a cat and rolling around on my back like a dog since forever...

Hmmm. Sounds like some sort of species appropriation.

[Kid Shelleen]

>>At one time, basketball was considered a “Jewish sport.” <<

[KC_Conspirator]

Exactly.