western world. Yoga as exercise, along with the use that some make of symbols such as Om ॐ, has been described as cultural appropriation. Scholars, noting...
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International Days of Yoga World Tai Chi and Qigong Day Yoga and cultural appropriation UN Declared 21 June as International Day of Yoga Archived 9 July 2016...
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Yoga mats are specially fabricated mats used to prevent hands and feet slipping during asana practice in modern yoga as exercise. An early variety made...
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Asana (redirect from Yoga stretch and hold)
Frizzell and Reni Eddo-Lodge have debated (in The Guardian) whether Western yoga classes represent "cultural appropriation". In Frizzell's view, yoga has become...
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soteriology, and thus may be an example of this appropriation." and "He is sure to achieve perfection in three years. He is entitled to practice all Yogas. In...
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Hilaria Baldwin (category American yoga teachers)
American yoga instructor, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author. She was the co-founder of a chain of New York-based yoga studios called Yoga Vida, and has released...
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of schools of yoga, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and traditional and modern yoga is practiced worldwide. Yoga-like practices...
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symbols like the sacred syllable Om, have been described as cultural appropriation. Yoga advertisements employ themes such as the sexual objectification...
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yoga classes represent "cultural appropriation." In Frizzell's view, yoga has become a new entity, a long way from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and while...
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Tantra (redirect from Tantric Yoga)
"yoga" is broadly attributed to many traditions and practices, including the western assumption that yoga is synonymous with physical stretching and little...
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T. K. V. Desikachar (redirect from Vinyasa Krama Yoga)
9 August 2016. "Beyond Dissociation And Appropriation: Interpretation Of Culturally Embedded Presentations Of Yoga, Page 336". Genelle Benker. 1 June 2019...
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Prachi Patankar (section Early life and education)
topics such as caste system in India, Hindutva, racism, cultural appropriation, foreign policy, and international conflict. Prachi Patankar was born in Maharashtra...
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History of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (section Yoga as cultural appropriation)
cancelled the free yoga classes being put on by the Centre for Students with Disabilities over concerns of cultural appropriation. The news provoked a...
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persecution in other countries, pushing back against the cultural appropriation of yoga, and opposition to legislation of anti-caste-discrimination laws...
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of Black culture in the US. Lopez has attracted accusations of cultural appropriation. Her controversial use of the racial slur nigga in her song "I'm...
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The history of yoga in the United States begins in the 19th century, with the philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; Emerson's poem...
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Dharma (category Words and phrases with no direct English translation)
The yoga-system of Patanjali Yoga-sutras, James Haughton Woods (1914), Harvard University Press, pp. 178–180. The yoga-system of Patanjali Yoga-sutras...
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Rajiv Malhotra (category Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science alumni)
Shreena; Wolff, Lillie (2017). "Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation". Zezima, Katie (2005). "In New Yoga Classes, Pose and Prayer". New York Times....
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Urine therapy (section Modern claims and findings)
references to properties and uses of urine in Yogic-texts such as Vayavaharasutra by Bhadrabahu and Hatha Yoga Pradapika by Svatmarama; and Ayurvedic texts such...
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Sattvic diet (category Yoga)
grains, and non-meat based proteins. Dairy products are recommended when the cow is fed and milked appropriately. In ancient and medieval era Yoga literature...
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has proved a master of cultural appropriation, professor of sociology and author David Chaney documented in his book The Cultural Turn (1994) that "for...
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67 Cultural History From The Vayu Purana By Devendrakumar Rajaram Patil, Rajaram D. K. Patil The Yoga Tradition: its literature, philosophy and practice...
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likelihood before 6th century BCE, and contain the earliest mentions of Yoga and Moksha. The śramaṇa period between 800 and 200 BCE marks a "turning point...
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Bharatanatyam (category Pages with non-English text lacking appropriate markup and no ISO hint)
"BHARATANATYAM AND YOGA". Archived from the original on 23 October 2006. He also points out that these [Bharatanatyam dance] stances are very similar to Yoga Asanas...
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Dosha (section Prana, tejas, and ojas)
meaning "phlegm". Yoga is a set of disciplines, some that aim to balance and transform energies of the psyche. At the roots of vata, pitta and kapha are believed...
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Intercultural philosophy (redirect from Inter-cultural philosophy)
setting into dialogue various sources from across cultural, linguistic, and philosophical streams", and world philosophy, "in which philosophers construct...
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philosophy evolved, namely, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedānta. Monotheistic sects like Shaivism and Vaishnavism developed during this...
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Kalachakra (category Time and fate gods)
texts and a major practice lineage in Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The tantra is considered to belong to the unexcelled yoga (anuttara-yoga) class...
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seven fundamental principles (elements) that support the basic structure (and functioning) of the body. They consist of: Rasa dhatu (lymph) the substratum...
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role in Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. Cow urine is used as medicine in some places of India, Myanmar, and Nigeria. While cow urine and cow dung have benefits...
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