When did yoga become so white? One Seattle woman's quest to mix it up

The Seattle Times ^ | May 26, 2016 | Nicole Brodeur

[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...

[Junior_G]

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.

[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?

[Mears]

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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[I want the USA back]

Before long, she will be reaping the “benefits” of welcoming people who she considers “oppressed.”

[PROCON]

Go to the "Jungle" under I-5 and you'll find a whole "diverse" population for your yoga classes.

[fwdude]

I like my yoga white, unless it has some fruit mixed in with it.

[NorthMountain]

I sure don’t want to see some fruit doing yoga ...

[Rurudyne]

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?

[fwdude]

Yeah, the banana bends could be messy.

[BenLurkin]

founder Anne Phyfe Palmer sees too many classes filled with mostly white people

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

[Junior_G]

Brilliant! If she were serious about her white privilege blubbering she’d go their in person to give classes.

[VanDeKoik]

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”.

[right way right]

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

[Rurudyne]

Let me guess, they said that white folk were doing business at brunch rather than lunch to exclude black people?

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[Stentor]

Before long, she will be reaping the “benefits” of welcoming people who she considers “oppressed.”

Hang on to your possessions tightly ladies and gentlemen.

[BenLurkin]

Too late...

[Jim Noble]

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!

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[MNDude]

Just as white liberals lament there are not enough blacks that go to national parks.

Just let people enjoy what they want to enjoy!