Sentences with phrase «western yoga culture»

As a member of the leadership team of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, she works to make yoga accessible to every body by challenging the lack of diversity in the mainstream Western yoga culture.

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And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

Restorative yoga is just the antidote we need for our fast - paced Western culture.

Western gym culture has promoted a fetish for rock - hard abs that has, unfortunately, spilled into every other area of life, including the yoga studio.

Classical texts such as the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads are utilized, with interpretations to suit a western culture when appropriate.

In the western world the culture of Yoga is beginning to emerge strongly as a new alternative towards health practices.

Though yoga is believed to have been practiced for as many as 10,000 years, it wasn't until the 1900s that it was introduced in Western culture.

And now, at one Canadian university, a yoga class designed to include disabled students has been canceled after concerns the practice was taken from a culture that «experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy,» according to the group that once sponsored it.

Haha - yes definitely yoga teachers or hippies I had always associated them with that too - in Western culture, or with Asian cultures and had never seriously thought of wearing them, until I started reading fashion history and came across the lovely styles of the 1910's.

An eastern - based philosophy using meditation and yoga has been part of western culture since the pop - group the Beatles gave it a big push.