Namaste Nalini,
Thank you sharing this post Nalini, and for your reflections after reading the piece. I really appreciate it. Wonderful to hear you will be taking a training that links back to the homeland and our people. I wish you every blessing with it. 🙏🏽🕉💗
Satiya,
Namaste.
I love this! Thank you! I learned a few things. One thing I’m doing as a south Asian, is to become a yoga and meditation instructor. Ironically, I will be taking a course lead by a man who is not of Asian decent but has been following a practice that is.
Om Shanthi,
Nalini
I did not know Swami Vivekananda brought yoga to the worlds parliament of religion but, I did understand him to be connected somehow.
Female sagas? Now, thank you for this knowledge. I certainly want to learn more.
I appreciate this article for many reasons. Of course, apart from the much needed awareness, history, origins, etc, I truly appreciate folks like you waking up the world to the tornado-like affects of colonization.
I am SO saddened to learn Aryuveda was starved from Bharat for over 400 years. This explains so much when visiting Bharat, and the infectious rates of cancer, heart disease, alopecia, diabetes, obesity/over weight etc…dis-ease heavily engrossed in the West.
I have been heavily involved in learning Dr.Sebi’s way of being and the relationship we have with food. I did ask a friend in Mumbai a few days back, why not go to Kerala to get healing? The answer was a product of indoctrination. I was left amazed at how stupefied/reliant we’ve become on allopathic medicine especially when Aryuveda offers a library of such vast knowledge/way of being.
thank you for bringing voice to this issue. these lines have always felt blurry as a young south asian woman growing up in the west, so much so that i go without expressing how uncomfortable i feel in such white spaces, but i feel frustrated with the amount of Krishna Das’s i see around me, and saddened about the lack of south asian teachers and spaces to practise and learn about our culture.
Thank you for speaking up not only for preserving the authenticity of Sanatana Dharm, but for women who have immense wisdom and voices that have been and continue to be shadowed by and silenced by the patriarchy. Decolonizing yoga is important to heal the centuries of colonization of Bharat. om shanti
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