Michigan State Professor: White People who do Yoga are Enjoying a ‘System of Oppression’

Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State University, claimed that white students who do yoga are enjoying a “system of oppression.” Too often, she said in a recent co-authored study on yoga, white people do not understand they are culturally appropriating (i.e. using without permission or without appropriate understanding) a practice that rightfully belongs to Indian women.

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