Relevant Issues in Modern Postural Yoga

Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation is the taking, marketing, and exotification of cultural practices from historically oppressed populations. Also the Yoga industrial complex has created an army of “teachers” that seem to be suffering from the effect creating more contagious madness and confusion.

Power Dynamics In Spiritual Culture and Me Too in Yoga…

The power dynamics and reckonings of abuse that exist in other places in society are being seen playing out in Yoga. With an avalanche of of articles, online videos and documentaries regarding the abuse of power in yoga and a new adherence to trauma informed practice and teaching,

Fetishization of Yoga

The ongoing visual representation of westernized asana poses on social media denies the viewer of the inner practice and can cause harm through body dismorphia, racial inequality and a re-branding of nationalist overtones.