{"id":51096,"date":"2022-12-13T02:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/dec\/12\/cultural-appropriation-discussion-builds-over-western-yoga-industry"},"modified":"2022-12-13T02:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:15:47","slug":"cultural-appropriation-discussion-builds-over-western-yoga-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51096","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cultural appropriation\u2019: discussion builds over western yoga industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practitioners fear Indian culture has been \u2018suppressed by colonisation\u2019 while some question accessibility<\/p>\n<p>Yoga has been a big part of Nadia Gilani\u2019s life since she was introduced to the practice by her mother at the age of 16. A few years ago, after various personal struggles, she became a full-time yoga teacher.<\/p>\n<p>But almost immediately, she realised not only were most yoga teachers and students in the UK white, but the accompanying wellness narrative has divorced yoga from its 5,000-year-old roots.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2022\/dec\/12\/cultural-appropriation-discussion-builds-over-western-yoga-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practitioners fear Indian culture has been \u2018suppressed by colonisation\u2019 while some question accessibilityYoga has been a big part of Nadia Gilani\u2019s life since she was introduced to the practice by her mother at the age of 16. A few years ago, after var&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[749,62,78,362,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonialism","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51096\/revisions\/51097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}