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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: Rurudyne

She’s welcome to give free classes to the poor blacks and Hispanics and see how many come instead of guilt tripping paying students.


21 posted on 05/26/2016 12:17:58 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Junior_G

delusional from bowing to too many gods during her yoga classes. That is what she gets for not bowing to GOD. Trouble is too many have taken up yoga without knowledge of what they are allowing by movement or words into their soul.


22 posted on 05/26/2016 12:18:17 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Junior_G
When I visit my daughter in Seattle, I see that Jungle under I-5 and wonder what happened to my once, wonderful birth city.

I know, liberalism happened, still makes me sad though.

23 posted on 05/26/2016 12:19:08 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: right way right

“I’m not white?!?”

http://youtu.be/IK1Pjgix79k


24 posted on 05/26/2016 12:20:13 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Junior_G

At the gym I go to, yoga classes are mostly older white people, a few teenagers. Black and Hispanic women are more likely to be in Dance Cardio or classes with weights.


25 posted on 05/26/2016 12:20:15 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: MNDude

Blacks don’t go to national parks because trees are racist.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262727/racist-trees-our-national-parks-daniel-greenfield


26 posted on 05/26/2016 12:20:19 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: MNDude

I never go snow skiing because snow reminds me of my white privilege.


27 posted on 05/26/2016 12:21:06 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: Junior_G

What is it with women and Yoga? I mean WTF.

On the other hand, I used to enjoy walking past the Yoga place at the shopping center near my old residence.

The yoga place had a big, wide glass window in the front, with always at least 20 women stretching etc, and most of them were good looking and those yoga outfits were conducive to camel toe.

I used to have the most impure thoughts walking by.


28 posted on 05/26/2016 12:22:17 PM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Junior_G

“When did yoga become so white?”

When did forests become so racist?

5.56mm


29 posted on 05/26/2016 12:22:22 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: BenLurkin

30 posted on 05/26/2016 12:23:12 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: NorthMountain

No fruit during yogurt? Are you trying to win the internets?


31 posted on 05/26/2016 12:23:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Rurudyne

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


Probably. BLM seems to be running things now.

The Republican students at Dartmouth erected a display honoring the police. It said “Blue Lives Matter”.

The BLM crowd destroyed it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/17/blue-lives-matter-display-removed-dartmouth-college/H5yX66tE4QGCiMXCKqmisJ/story.html

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32 posted on 05/26/2016 12:24:06 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BenLurkin
What...don't they pay good money to patronize your business?

Yes, but now she's upset they didn't get the memo to bring their token oppressed minority with them to class.

33 posted on 05/26/2016 12:25:05 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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To: Rurudyne

Dat B fun. Who knew?


34 posted on 05/26/2016 12:28:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Rurudyne

Maybe she could just pay a bunch of black people to attend her yoga classes. Then she could meet her goals, regardless of whether her black students really wanted to do yoga. The money she pays them will be from her ill-gotten gains from white privilege, and might even qualify as reparations. She could feel a lot better about herself, and brag about it on her website. What a plan!


35 posted on 05/26/2016 12:30:59 PM PDT by Avid Coug
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To: Junior_G

White is good.


36 posted on 05/26/2016 12:32:11 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Junior_G

How about cultural training and less black for the NBA.


37 posted on 05/26/2016 12:32:37 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Junior_G

I’m pretty sure Yoga isn’t all that “white” in Asia.


38 posted on 05/26/2016 12:36:48 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (#nevertrump is really #readyforhillary)
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To: Junior_G

She could always stop taking their money

Cmon, assuage that White Privilege


39 posted on 05/26/2016 12:38:53 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget #BoycottRoss Women & children hurt the most)
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To: Vigilanteman

“...for being invented by Asians, wouldn’t you?”

Cultural appropriation.


40 posted on 05/26/2016 12:46:06 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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