Thursday, December 4, 2014

Yoga as a Lifestyle and Culture

I'm pretty certain that I hate "yoga culture" as we know it by the media here on the East coast. I think that it is mostly full of people who tell themselves lies about what is important and good. I simply cannot get grasp the mental capacity of someone who buys $100+ articles of clothing and spends their time posting on social media about their "simpler life." There are so many people out there that believe that their yoga practice somehow makes them a good person. Our culture decided that people who practice yoga should be praised for their nobility. The lifestyle of semi-regularly practicing yoga, spending ridiculous amounts of money on shakes and fancy water bottles, and receiving praise from the community for being such a generous and aware person is so incredible strange to me. I realize that is little sub-culture is just that, a single aspect of a larger community. But these are definitely that people that I think give yoga a bad name in our area, and are ultimately hurting those with more genuine practices and lives.

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