Namaste

I’m sure my students have noticed that around Christmas last year I stopped finishing my classes with ‘Namaste.’  I had come across some South Asian voices describing its use in Western yoga as cultural appropriation, so I decided to stop using it while I learned more. To be honest, when I first became a yoga…

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Vaccinated Yogi

I’ve decided to post about getting vaccinated because so many in the Yoga and “Wellness” industry are loudly proclaiming their opposition, without being challenged. Obviously, we have better things to do than get into online debates. But I actually read one yoga teacher belligerently comment that she wouldn’t want vaccinated people in her class in case they died in Savasanna. So I’m posting this to show that many of us are celebrating our vaccines!

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