Light Love & Yoga
Nov 25, 2020
Today Light Love and Yoga is happy to announce our schedule of Yoga classes in Pláka, Apokoronas. Our yoga classes are small with a maximum of six students to guarantee you a safe and individual experience. Weather permitting, classes are held outdoors in our peaceful garden or in our indoor…
Meditation By patriciapientka
Nov 25, 2020
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…
Meditation By patriciapientka
Nov 25, 2020
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
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