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

    04/13/2021 10:44:19 PM PDT · by blueplum · 32 replies
    NBC News via msn ^ | 13 Apr 2021 | Sakshi Venkatraman
    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...