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How spiritual practices can be cultural appropriation

My yoga studio is full of white women doing poses from a tradition their ancestors probably tried to destroy during colonization.

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What we've seen

Sacred traditions become divorced from their cultural context and transformed into consumer products for privileged populations.

Ideas that help explain it
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