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profit. Gandhi and Wolff comment that one reason for yoga's popularity was that "it reinforced European and Euro-American ideas of India. Early Indian yoga missionaries played on the orientalist construction of the 'west' as progressive and superior and the 'east' as spiritual but inferior. Yoga became — and remains — a practice which allows western practitioners to experience the idea of another culture while focusing on the self." They acknowledge the "far too few practitioners" who take the trouble to study the history and philosophy of yoga, and invite everyone to join in an "authentic, respectful, and accountable cultural exchange", where "the practices have a profound healing effect on the practitioner."
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wealthy white society, putting it out of reach of many people. The same article, however, quotes Gilani as saying that "I don’t think claiming yoga back as an Indian practice for only Indians is the way", since the situation is not in her view a matter of the west having "colonised" yoga. Gilani comments that while she is a "
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view, held by some practitioners of modern yoga, is that it embodies a pure and universal spirituality, which cannot be corrupted. Dalal states that both views consider yoga to have a "timeless ahistorical essence". Yoga scholarship, investigating the history of yoga, holds instead that yoga does not
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reports that yoga teachers in India feel that western yoga has appropriated their culture, quoting Vikram Jeet Singh of Goa as saying that "his own culture wiped out and suppressed by colonisation." Yoga teachers of South Asian heritage like Nikita Desai have stated that yoga has been "colonised" by
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Scholars, noting that yoga has continually developed in form and changed its contexts and goals since it originated, both in India and in the western world, and that practitioners in India have adopted western yoga practices, have debated whether the charge can be substantiated. Scholars and authors
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that people from India can feel excluded if Indian words and symbols are forbidden in an attempt to make yoga classes more inclusive. Deshpande notes that it is ironic that yoga is now "often marketed by affluent Westerners to affluent Westerners—and Indians, ironically, are marginally represented,
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that "advocates of the Hindu origins position" assert that practitioners of postural yoga have not observed what they consider to be the Hindu roots of yoga, and therefore "denounce what they consider yoga marketers' illegitimate cooptation and commodification of yoga." She states that such claims
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and the antiracist campaigner Lillie Wolff write that the desired result is not that white people should stop doing yoga, but for them to see how the history of yoga in the west is linked to oppression and colonialism, and that a freely-shared practice of devotion is being advertised and sold for
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Diagram of Neil Dalal's analysis of the question of whether modern yoga represents a cultural appropriation. Dalal writes that the view that there is an ancient, pure, and authentic yoga that can be corrupted is opposed by the scholarly view that yoga has changed continually over the
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from India have suggested that the desired result is not that white people should stop practicing yoga, but that they should learn something of its history and seek to practice it responsibly in a genuine and healing cultural exchange.
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on her forehead, stopping when someone objected. She comments that she has an Om symbol tattooed on her foot, and would have undone it were that possible, not least because the foot is considered an impure part of the body by Hindus.
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have an essence as it changed continually over the centuries, and that talk of purity or authenticity does not make sense; indeed, talk of cultural appropriation may not make sense in the case of yoga either. Further,
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has declined in its traditional form, and has taken on aspects of its modern western form, complicating the discussion and implying that many people in India have accepted a more western view of yoga.
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has its roots in South Asia, and that there exists some ancient, pure, and authentic South Asian yoga which is at risk of being corrupted in the modern world. An alternative
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as cultural appropriation. She identifies yoga studios, yoga teachers and yoga-related businesses as among those misusing yoga, stating that sacred symbols like idols of
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banned yoga in India, it is now ubiquitous in the western world, and asks whether it is cultural appropriation to practice and to teach yoga "as a white or non-
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is defined as the "inappropriate or unacknowledged" adoption of elements of a culture by people from a different culture. The concept is open to debate.
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in bed' shirt with ill intentions", but that alienating South Asian people remains problematic. Tandon suggests that practitioners might visit a
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promoted what he called raja yoga, a spiritual movement, and he criticised "body-centered yoga practices". Later, other leaders (such as
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Rumya S. Putcha states that the term "cultural appropriation" in itself "is a way of diluting the fact that we're talking about
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has adopted elements of modern yoga from the western world, implying a cultural exchange rather than a one-way appropriation.
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makes use of physical postures as Haṭha yoga did, but its goals are good health, reduced stress, and physical flexibility.
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does not get due credit" when yoga is appropriated in this way. Jain states that modern yoga had two major narratives.
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Yoga practitioners in the west may make use of religious or ritual objects from different cultures in their practice.
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Askegaard, Søren; Eckhardt, Giana M. (2012). "Glocal yoga: Re-appropriation in the Indian consumptionscape".
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The scholar of religion Neil Dalal writes that a mainstream view of cultural appropriation assumes that
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or read some of the classic texts on yoga to become "more socially conscious" in their practice.
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The first-generation Indian American yoga researcher and teacher, Rina Deshpande, writes in
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in bed' shirt with ill intentions", though in her view that does not make it unproblematic.
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are not "décor" and that they should not be added casually to beautify a yoga space.
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was to unite the human spirit with the divine. The branch of yoga that makes use of
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are sometimes used to adorn bodies and yoga studios, possibly a form of
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The yoga teacher and studio owner Arundhati Baitmangalkar, writing in
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is by origin an ancient spiritual practice from India. In the form of
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Yoga Manifesto: how yoga helped me and why it needs to save itself
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The British yoga teacher Nadia Gilani, author of the 2022 book
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The scholar of religion Andrea Jain writes in her book
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yoga as exercise
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Hinduism
Vivekananda
Yogendra
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