Yoga and Cultural Oppression (55)
Kaybee50: Our world is going stark raving bonkers.
It seems like there are far too many people who are spending far too much time focusing on how to pick apart the good things and yet ignore the things that truly needs changing.
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The meaning of yoga is to join, union, unite, but can also mean to subjugate. It can also be a way of gaining control over the mind, perhaps the powers that be wouldn't want us to do that...
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bodleing2: The meaning of yoga is to join, union, unite, but can also mean to subjugate. It can also be a way of gaining control over the mind, perhaps the powers that be wouldn't want us to do that...
Yes, it might create free-thinking individuals
Down with the sort of thing! Placard >>>
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We can still stretch in our own living rooms right? 
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mollybaby: Yes,
it might create free-thinking individuals
Down with the sort of thing! Placard >>>
it might create free-thinking individuals
Down with the sort of thing! Placard >>>
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chatonlyman2: We can still stretch in our own living rooms right?
Yes, do it every day. But yoga is much more than just stretching, it can be stillness of the mind and body, Raja Yoga is one of many yoga practices to go within.
"Raja Yoga, sometimes called the "Royal Yoga" is inclusive of all yogas, and its philosophy goes beyond the boundaries of the many styles of yoga today. Raja Yoga emphasizes the benefits of meditation for spiritual self-realization and the purposeful evolution of consciousness."
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Kaybee50: Our world is going stark raving bonkers.
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Kaybee..............
i feel embarassed as a canadian....sheeesh
and yes....i do practice yoga almost daily, for both body strength and looking within. tryin' to get to empty so things flow.
hold a pose and pay attention to one's breath...or on more 'difficult' days, use a youtube guided meditation. it's actually a great way to get the ego-spinning to stop. my body gets healthier, and my mind gets calm.
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jono7: Kaybee
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i feel embarassed as a canadian....sheeeshand yes....i do practice yoga almost daily, for both body strength and looking within. tryin' to get to empty so things flow.
hold a pose and pay attention to one's breath...or on more 'difficult' days, use a youtube guided meditation. it's actually a great way to get the ego-spinning to stop. my body gets healthier, and my mind gets calm.
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i feel embarassed as a canadian....sheeeshand yes....i do practice yoga almost daily, for both body strength and looking within. tryin' to get to empty so things flow.
hold a pose and pay attention to one's breath...or on more 'difficult' days, use a youtube guided meditation. it's actually a great way to get the ego-spinning to stop. my body gets healthier, and my mind gets calm.
I prefer a couple cups of coffee and a few cigarettes, seems to work just fine.
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kidatheart: I prefer a couple cups of coffee and a few cigarettes, seems to work just fine.
hey kid
that's cuz you already haaave a scissor lift! ....
(grrrrr....looking for scissorlift emote.....)
(and as you know...i got the coffee and smokes covered as well...for me,it's not an either or....
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jono7: hey kid that's cuz you already haaave a scissor lift! ....
(grrrrr....looking for scissorlift emote.....)(and as you know...i got the coffee and smokes covered as well...for me,it's not an either or....)
(grrrrr....looking for scissorlift emote.....)(and as you know...i got the coffee and smokes covered as well...for me,it's not an either or....)
They do hand in hand, and even on the scissor lift. Should put a cup holder and an ashtray on that thing.
We got the first real snow here today, and still coming down. I had to work in it all day, just finally starting to warm up and feel dry.
Not sure what to say abut the OP, other than there's a lotta numpties on this planet.
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kidatheart: They do hand in hand, and even on the scissor lift. Should put a cup holder and an ashtray on that thing.
We got the first real snow here today, and still coming down. I had to work in it all day, just finally starting to warm up and feel dry.
Not sure what to say abut the OP, other than there's a lotta numpties on this planet.
We got the first real snow here today, and still coming down. I had to work in it all day, just finally starting to warm up and feel dry.
Not sure what to say abut the OP, other than there's a lotta numpties on this planet.
normally folks keep their scissor lifts outdoors so ashtrays aren't a huge problem are they?............but if you're gonna keep that thing in yur house, ya better...
i like to smoke while doin' yoga.
(not really....)
snow!! are you east or really east rigt now? ( if ya catch my
no snow here..........
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jono7: normally folks keep their scissor lifts outdoors so ashtrays aren't a huge problem are they?............but if you're gonna keep that thing in yur house, ya better... i like to smoke while doin' yoga. (not really....)
snow!! are you east or really east rigt now? ( if ya catch my snowdrift?)
no snow here..........
snow!! are you east or really east rigt now? ( if ya catch my snowdrift?)
no snow here..........
you need to QUIT those....
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Kaybee50: Our world is going stark raving bonkers.
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by KATHERINE TIMPF
November 23, 2015 1:36 PM
The University of Ottawa in Canada has abruptly canceled the free yoga classes it has offered to students since 2008 over concerns that they amounted to “cultural appropriation” and were connected to “cultural genocide.” Jennifer Scharf, the practitioner who had offered the classes, told the Independent that she had suddenly received a message telling her that they’d be suspended because “there were some issues in terms of a formal complaint.”
The decision to cancel the classes was made by the Ottawa Student Federation, the university’s independent student body. According to the Ottawa Sun, staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities sent out an e-mail claiming that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students . . . there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.”
”Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from,” the e-mail continued. ADVERTISING According to the centre, many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy . . . we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practicing yoga.”
The Sun reports that about 60 people had participated in the program, and Scharf said she thinks it’s ridiculous and sad that they won’t be able to do so anymore. “There’s a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon,” she said. “And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things.”
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by KATHERINE TIMPF
November 23, 2015 1:36 PM
The University of Ottawa in Canada has abruptly canceled the free yoga classes it has offered to students since 2008 over concerns that they amounted to “cultural appropriation” and were connected to “cultural genocide.” Jennifer Scharf, the practitioner who had offered the classes, told the Independent that she had suddenly received a message telling her that they’d be suspended because “there were some issues in terms of a formal complaint.”
The decision to cancel the classes was made by the Ottawa Student Federation, the university’s independent student body. According to the Ottawa Sun, staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities sent out an e-mail claiming that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students . . . there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.”
”Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from,” the e-mail continued. ADVERTISING According to the centre, many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy . . . we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practicing yoga.”
The Sun reports that about 60 people had participated in the program, and Scharf said she thinks it’s ridiculous and sad that they won’t be able to do so anymore. “There’s a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon,” she said. “And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things.”
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The socially hapless geography teacher is at it again, he must have run out of Muslims to hug.
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purr4mance: you need to QUIT those....
yes.....heck of an idea.....
i'm working on it.
got enuf patches for the neighborhood.....
now back to yoga.....
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jono7: yes.....heck of an idea.....
i'm working on it.
got enuf patches for the neighborhood.....
now back to yoga.....
i'm working on it.
got enuf patches for the neighborhood.....
now back to yoga.....
bet you haven't heard that before...i know you're working on it and good luck.
just do it. you'll feel better.. guaranteed.
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jono7: normally folks keep their scissor lifts outdoors so ashtrays aren't a huge problem are they?............but if you're gonna keep that thing in yur house, ya better... i like to smoke while doin' yoga. (not really....)
snow!! are you east or really east rigt now? ( if ya catch my snowdrift?)
no snow here..........
snow!! are you east or really east rigt now? ( if ya catch my snowdrift?)
no snow here..........
Mine is parked in the garage, warm and dry. Starting to think my scissor lift is smarter than I am.
Way east, too far actually, no snow at home. Time to start making escape plans.
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Nameste!!
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KarloradoFL: Nameste!!
You insensitive oppressor! 
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2intrigued: It seems like there are far too many people who are spending far too much time focusing on how to pick apart the good things and yet ignore the things that truly needs changing.
Bingo.We can't change history, we shouldn't be held hostage by history.
Seems all the rage now, to be offended.
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by KATHERINE TIMPF
November 23, 2015 1:36 PM
The University of Ottawa in Canada has abruptly canceled the free yoga classes it has offered to students since 2008 over concerns that they amounted to “cultural appropriation” and were connected to “cultural genocide.” Jennifer Scharf, the practitioner who had offered the classes, told the Independent that she had suddenly received a message telling her that they’d be suspended because “there were some issues in terms of a formal complaint.”
The decision to cancel the classes was made by the Ottawa Student Federation, the university’s independent student body. According to the Ottawa Sun, staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities sent out an e-mail claiming that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students . . . there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.”
”Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from,” the e-mail continued. ADVERTISING According to the centre, many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy . . . we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practicing yoga.”
The Sun reports that about 60 people had participated in the program, and Scharf said she thinks it’s ridiculous and sad that they won’t be able to do so anymore. “There’s a real divide between reasonable people and those people just looking to jump on a bandwagon,” she said. “And unfortunately, it ends up with good people getting punished for doing good things.”
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