Episode 19: "Decolonize Your Yoga Practice and Seek the Source" with Anusha Wijeyakumar
Beyond Running6 Sep 2021

Episode 19: "Decolonize Your Yoga Practice and Seek the Source" with Anusha Wijeyakumar

In this conversation, we explore the roots of yoga and how the tradition has been colonized and mis-appropriated. We touch on the anti-science and white supremacist rhetoric that has plagued the culture of yoga in the West, laid even more bare by the pandemic and social justice movement that's gained momentum in 2020. And, of course, we talk about what we can do about it, what it means to be a devoted, humble student of yoga, and how one can be a yoga teacher in a way that's in line with yoga's philosophy.

Wijeyakumar has had a life-long connection to yoga. Raised in the tradition of Sanathana Dharma, she makes it clear that asana is simply one small part of the yoga tradition, meant to prime the body for seated meditation and Dharana. It's only in the West, through colonization and appropriation, that asana has been equated with yoga. What's more, the way asana is practiced in the West is far from inclusive, but yoga is as inclusive as a tradition can be.Anusha's combination of wisdom and humility is compelling and inspiring. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

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