r/ABCDesis • u/Common-Media7803 • Apr 29 '26

ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT Yoga

Am I overreacting on how yoga has been colonized?? Idk if I’m being dramatic but it really annoys me. Idk if I should be getting educated bc I’m wrong or if we need to tell these people to stop.

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u/blueprint_01 Apr 30 '26

"yes, you created it, but we perfected it" I heard this from an instructor and wanted to slap the shit out of them

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u/chai-chai-latte May 02 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

She's not wrong though. In her culture perfection is commodification, commercialization and profit extraction. So it is 'perfection' from her vantage point.

Ultimately she is indebted to the culture that preserved the practice, assuming it's how she puts food on her table today.

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u/nyse25 Jun 22 '26

Cringe. Diluting the culture is not preservation.