Month: September 2023
Nov 25, 2020
Spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity and gaslighting – 3 pitfalls on a spiritual flight between heaven and earth
Spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, and gaslighting in Yoga. Three terms that are currently being used in many articles and testimonials in the debate about the lack of inclusivity in yoga and especially racism in yoga. Neither of these terms has been coined recently, but are descriptions that are several decades…
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Nov 25, 2020
Honor the Roots
Let's move from cultural appropriation to cultural appreciation in Yoga. Challenges on Instagram promoting asanas as yoga, Shiva statues "decorating" the bathrooms of Berlin studios, yoga magazines featuring experts in Ayurveda: all female, all white. The list of examples of cultural appropriation by yogis in Germany and around the world…
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Nov 25, 2020
It is not talking about racism that divides us, silence does
Recommended book about the connection of racism and yoga: Gail Parker, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, London and Philadelphia 2020. (Click here for the German version of this article) The recently published study by psychologist and yoga therapist Dr Gail Parker from the USA is one…
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