Even having this debate and discussion would require the yoga community to engage in real discernment and reflection, which is rather hard to do when yoga is encouraging you to chill out, turn off your mind, and listen only to your body. Frankly, this is the problem when women dominate any social or cultural pursuit as pervasively as they dominate yoga. How are studios like Boundless encouraging a tradition of yogic reflection that gets us beyond the tendency to uncriticially accept of all that is occurring within today’s highly contradictory yoga “movement”?

Frankly, as a man fully and actively engaged in life with BOTH mind and body, intellect and feeling, it is hard to find a critical point of entry into today’s gyno-centric Yoga world. The celebration of the body over and above all else - naturally aided and abetted by the female ethos that dominates US yoga, we are arriving at a new form of idol worship - a kind of “gyno-fascism” that is creating a ever-expanding demographic of mindless OMMERS anxious to find a way back into their bikinis by July.

I know, it’s only yoga. Be happy!! OMMMMMMMM!!!

So here goes another try.

Capitalism absolutely requires that human beings seize control of the woods and the oceans and mountains and own those natural living beings and sell them for profit.

That is a total refutation of spirit. No question. Case closed on that.

Not too long ago capitalists actually owned other human beings who had dark skin. And as result of this ownership these innocent human beings were killed, raped and tortured again and again and again and this was totally supported by the society.

OK. So capitalism must be opposed by anybody who claims to be dedicated to their own liberation and the liberation of all sentient beings. Nuf said.

Yoga Journal is a racist magazine that has, as its actual purpose, the increased comfort of middle class white citizens of the United States and particularly white middle class women.

Is this harsh? Yes it is and deliberately. At this point I really do not know what else can be said to get folks aware of these issues.

I have written letters of Yoga Journal and to no avail. I think it is time for yogis to actually organize. Individual acts are not sufficient.

If the idea that yoga and capitalism are in profound opposition to one another…if you need to know more about this then fine. I think it is very important for folks to gain awareness of the political dynamics going on in the US yoga community.

But I want to be clear here. This is not some wonderful nice act of love…to finally not have any tolerance for racist, classist greed pretending to be spirit. It is nothing but being alive.

Any human being passionate about ending injustice would already be clear about this.

Unless there is some decisive collective action done to reclaim yoga and keep it from turning into a bunch of feel good/be happy yuppy self-help nonsense…

I really want to get folks organized..I call it Yoga-Nized…so lets figure this out together.

It is sadly ironic that it is the very yoga community in this society that makes me feel so enraged, disgusted and depressed that I must re-deidicate myself to the asanas and pranayma and yamas again and again