Tag: racism

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…

Meditation By patriciapientka

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…

Meditation By patriciapientka