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....

[blueplum]

yes, my FRiends, yoga is now cultural appropriation and colonization..and it's all Gwyneth Paltrow's fault.

[Vendome]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

when am i going to read how blacks co-opted basketball, a white mans sport? and football?

time to get them put of these sports, they aren’t black folks’ sports.

[alexander_busek]

But when she started visiting white-dominated studios outside her community, she says she felt [...]

Well, there's her problem right there! She should have "stayed in her lane" and not strayed into environmental where Whites outnumbered "her kind" and/or "set the tone."

Me and the other good ol' boys in the Klan feel the same way when we accidentally venture into territory where erstwhile minorities dominate.

Is it really necessary that I point out that I'm being sarcastic here?

Her REAL mistake? "She felt ..." What she is feeling is namely her own unconscious racism.

Regards,

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Good point.

[alexander_busek]

and not strayed into environmentS where Whites

Dang!

Regards,

[Eagles6]

The left drives the wedge of racial division deeper.

[Captainpaintball]

Look...I hate white women too.

But I hate them for the RIGHT reasons.

[Third Wheel]

A partial list of sports created by white people:

Baseball
Basketball
American Football
Ice Hockey
Rugby
Soccer
Tennis
Golf
Track and field
Gymnastics

[skr]

How does a white person practicing Westernized yoga interfere with a non-white person practicing his culture’s yoga?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I kind of agree with some of the sentiments of the article actually.

But I’m not a yoga fan personally. Pilates and ballet for me. ❤️

[ETCM]

How does a white person practicing Westernized yoga interfere with a non-white person practicing his culture’s yoga?

Sometimes privileged people have to dig pretty deep to find their victim card. This is quite a stretch, but fortunately she's a Yoga instructor and can contort herself into a pretzel to pull it off.

[wardaddy]

Good lord how silly

It's exercise stretching and muscle working....kegel, upper buttocks, triceps, lung and diaphragm muscles etc

It's zen a bit

Man if done with discipline and love , it makes best body a woman can have

Still soft and feminine supple yet toned and velvet to the caress

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

Yoga doesn't destroy the breasts....

Like weight lifting or excessive running does

The spiritual stuff is so much bullshit

My wife is 56....her 30 year old body is genetics and diligent yoga 25 years....

This woman is 72....lifetime yoga ...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Whine, whine, whine. Bitch, bitch bitch. Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. Complain, complain, complain. Sheesh...

[Cronos]

It’s not.

These instructors want to limit the competition

[Cronos]

It doesn’t. What it does do is open the market for yoga instructors to a lot more competition.

[KC_Conspirator]

You know, there was a time when liberals extolled other cultures. In the the 90s it was “Did you learn anything about their culture?” and on and on. My how times have changed. (In addition, there was a time when liberals hated businesses and there was even a the Campaign Finance Bill that was signed because of it, and now take a look, its all woke and suits their purposes.)

[Starcitizen]

Ok, take back your Indian yoga.

We will take back our software and computer industry that’s been co-opted by Indian scumbags.

Fair trade.

[Tired of Taxes]

About 15 years ago, I took my kids to a traditional Afro-Caribbean dance demonstration. The dancers were beautiful, and the dance was amazing. Then the dancers invited everyone there (of all ages, ethnicities, etc.) to come up front and dance this traditional island dance with them. I politely declined but talked one of my kids into trying it. Back then, no one talked about “cultural appropriation.” They talked about “cultural appreciation.” How I miss those days.

[nickcarraway]

Yoga is Scandinavian, nit Indian.