I just came across this: www.decolonizingyoga.com/‎

At first I thought from the name that it would be Indian people trying to decolonise yoga from the almost complete appropriation it has undergone… But it’s actually some horrible disgusting appropriative shit - it’s appropriating TWO things: (1) yoga, an INDIAN practice, and (2) the discourse of decolonisation, which is not for white, non-indigenous or First World people.



Nobody should be teaching yoga if they’re not Indian. It makes me want to cry, how yoga has been so divorced from our culture, that it doesn’t even bear mentioning that it is an INDIAN thing, part of Indian culture, and these appropriative racists are using their claim to yoga (which doesn’t exist) to pretend to be anti-racist allies.

Yoga is so much more than what they’ve turned it into. What they are doing is NOT yoga. It’s not mindless, smiley, feel-good shit. I can’t believe the racist appropriation of my culture has come to this level, become this bad.



I’ve come to the point where I don’t think any non-Indian should even practice yoga, whether taught by an Indian or not. This is too much.