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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cross posting this from the other yoga thread since you all seem to be some confused lost souls in need of some guidance and direction.

Love this article from 2009. I'm sure the numbers are even higher now.

Go on ladies, even if you can't bring yourself to admit it yet. You are very likely (GASP and reach for your crosses) Hindu!

http://www.newsweek.com/us-views-god-and-life-are-turning-hindu-79073
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Yoga has been stripped of its religious context in most classes that I have attended, as has mindfulness meditation practices. Both are widely promoted by the health care industry as health interventions, not spiritual interventions.

You can practice the exercises without getting into the philosophy aspects.  Thousands of people do. It's a bit late to insist that yoga is a Hindu religious practice in the US.  It hasn't been a Hindu practice here for at least 50 years. If you wanted to fight the appropriation battle, you should have fought it in the 60s.[/quote]

This is sort of like a KKK person telling African-Americans in the '60s, "Well if you didn't want us to use the n-word then you should've done something about it back in the nineteenth century. This is the 1960's, too late to change that now!"[/quote]

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