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When spiritual practices feel culturally appropriated

My yoga teacher keeps talking about chakras and energy healing and I love the physical practice but all the spiritual stuff makes me uncomfortable because it feels appropriated and fake.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The hunger for embodied spiritual experience is colliding with awareness of cultural extraction and the commodification of sacred traditions.

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