This really triggered me today and I can ONLY count it down to thin privilege.

Excuse my typing, I am still really upset and really angry about this.

http://thehealthyroad.tumblr.com/post/30679505754/there-are-many-different-types-of-yoga-to

This fitspo blog made a post about different types of yoga, you know to be fit. I am all about being fit but this person really is a thinspo blog, and really that’s where the main problem starts.

Yoga is something I have studied since I was 15. The postures are only ONE SMALL PART of it all! Yoga was also NEVER meant for weight loss, it wasn’t. It was, as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali says, a tool to bring you closer to your true self, have you at peace with who you are, and realize you’re perfectly fine just the way you are.

So to aim yoga at weight loss is really, horribly offensive. I mean HORRIBLY offensive. It is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what yoga ACTUALLY is!

Then to the next part. The person who made this post knows absolutely nothing about yoga. How do I know? The first thing that should be said about Bikram yoga is that it’s in a heated room with no water, and can kill people. Not for starters. Does it say that? no. This person is going to get people injured.

There are also other yoga styles that are not for newcomers, and are for people who have been practicing the basic styles for a bit.

Also the post never mentions pranyama which, I would argue is more important than the postures, but takes a teacher. Yoga needs a teacher because you can mess up your spine, nerves, muscles, alignment - everything. You can REALLY hurt yourself doing this.

To boil it down

Thin privilege is over simplifying a spiritual science [and it is a science] to make it about weight loss. Not mentioning any of the dangers because, you know, it’s worth throwing your spine out to be “thin”. Thin privilege is taking something that’s about loving yourself and turning it into a tool to make fat people “fix themselves.”

Yoga is about loving yourself. I have seen fat people in poses that I can’t even get into and I am thin. I have seen fat people be so graceful in their sequences, that it really destroys preconceived ideas of what fat people can and can not do.