Liberating yoga from appropriation to healing
"In the West, the practice of yoga is weighed down by years of cultural appropriation. But yoga is more than a one-hour fitness class aimed at flexibility. In Liberating Yoga, yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann shows yogis a path to reclaim yoga from appropriation and recenter the ancient spiritual pr...
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Minneapolis :
Broadleaf Books,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- My experience of westernized Yoga
- Discovering Yoga's roots
- Yoga beyond the body
- The trauma of colonialism
- Decolonizing Yoga
- Yoga mats, Yoga pants, and expensive classes
- Am I culturally appropriating?
- Erasure and sanitization
- 200 hours : on the problems of Yoga teacher training
- On spiritual bypassing
- Definitions of Yoga : so what is Yoga, really?
- The gift that Yoga gives us
- Yoga margas (paths)
- Liberating practices
- Reclaiming ancestral practices
- Finding the way forward.
