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A free yoga class has been suspended after student leaders at a Canadian university are concerned the practice of it could be seen as 'cultural appropriation'.
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years
The center's staff said that yoga has been under 'a lot of controversy lately' as a result of how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are 'being taken from,'
Staff from the center also expressed that many of those cultures 'experienced oppression, cultural genocide and Diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy'.
Ahimakin said the student federation had placed the yoga program on hiatus while they worked with students to improve it and make it 'more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out
Scharf suggested that she would be willing to change the name of the program from yoga to 'mindful stretching' as a compromise.
originally posted by: trollz
A free yoga class has been suspended after student leaders at a Canadian university are concerned the practice of it could be seen as 'cultural appropriation'.
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years
The center's staff said that yoga has been under 'a lot of controversy lately' as a result of how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are 'being taken from,'
Staff from the center also expressed that many of those cultures 'experienced oppression, cultural genocide and Diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy'.
Ahimakin said the student federation had placed the yoga program on hiatus while they worked with students to improve it and make it 'more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out
Scharf suggested that she would be willing to change the name of the program from yoga to 'mindful stretching' as a compromise.
Source
Well, there you have it. In a world where everything is offensive, that label now includes yoga... Because some people feel that it's an expression of Western oppression and genocide over other cultures.
Insanity.
And so the downward spiral gains speed toward the bottom.
originally posted by: trollz
A free yoga class has been suspended after student leaders at a Canadian university are concerned the practice of it could be seen as 'cultural appropriation'.
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years
The center's staff said that yoga has been under 'a lot of controversy lately' as a result of how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are 'being taken from,'
Staff from the center also expressed that many of those cultures 'experienced oppression, cultural genocide and Diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy'.
Ahimakin said the student federation had placed the yoga program on hiatus while they worked with students to improve it and make it 'more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out
Scharf suggested that she would be willing to change the name of the program from yoga to 'mindful stretching' as a compromise.
Source
Well, there you have it. In a world where everything is offensive, that label now includes yoga... Because some people feel that it's an expression of Western oppression and genocide over other cultures.
Insanity.
originally posted by: dollukka
Soon they say that we have to stop breathing, because its taking others air, or that they need air in third countries more than we do...
Soon they will ban
originally posted by: trollz
A free yoga class has been suspended after student leaders at a Canadian university are concerned the practice of it could be seen as 'cultural appropriation'.
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years
The center's staff said that yoga has been under 'a lot of controversy lately' as a result of how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are 'being taken from,'
Staff from the center also expressed that many of those cultures 'experienced oppression, cultural genocide and Diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy'.
Ahimakin said the student federation had placed the yoga program on hiatus while they worked with students to improve it and make it 'more inclusive to certain groups of people that feel left out
Scharf suggested that she would be willing to change the name of the program from yoga to 'mindful stretching' as a compromise.
Source
Well, there you have it. In a world where everything is offensive, that label now includes yoga... Because some people feel that it's an expression of Western oppression and genocide over other cultures.
Insanity.
originally posted by: soulpowertothendegree
a reply to: trollz
Could care less, yoga is stupid.