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Slo Mo X That Little Voice In Your Head - Nadia Gilani on How to Confront the Colonization of Yoga

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Yoga

I just think that it's become quite dominated by the slim limbed, bendy, often blond, kind of image we see of yoga. That's not to be ignored. I've taught yoga with refugees and in community centres where we were cramped doing strange shapes with our bodies. In some ways, they were doing like the real practice, because they were often wearing really clothes that were really not easy for them to move around in. We would concentrate, we would meditate, we would do these strange things that were really uncomfortable to do. And, you know, yoo. Mean, that's the kind of thing love wat o saying, the whiteness thing is cause i stole

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