11-22-15, 08:18 PM | |
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Arkansas
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Gosh--I guess they would be upset if they knew that the Veterans Administration in the U.S. is using yoga to work with people coming back from overseas. One of the V.A. chaplains told me that yoga is part of their "toolkit."
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11-22-15, 11:45 PM | |
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: New York City
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And at-risk teenage girls (maybe not rape victims in Mumbai, India, but here in my own "backyard", well, some few miles away, but no NIMBY-ing around -- i.e., where one close by and hardly better off, has to pay attention ...) ...
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/...re-neighborly/ "What I learn as Director of The Yoga and Mindful Literature Initiative for Girls is there are countless yoga studios out there (particularly with similar programs for at-risk youth) that do an astonishing amount of “good”—but by whose definition? Assuming what is beneficial to the community without directly asking for their input is exactly what Peter Buffet called “philanthropic colonialism” in a New York Times Op-Ed article: “The act of transplanting what works in one setting directly into another with little regard for culture, geography, or societal norms.” " "Tip 1: Get to surveying! What better way to culturally align yoga studios than by asking our diverse neighbors what defines a 'good' class or experience? "Eliminating “exclusive consumer classism” brings to mind two more reach-out worthy key players in the neighborhood: one is the predominant socioeconomic class. For example in New York, about 44 percent of practitioners make over $75,000 per year—which justifies some of the absurd class prices over $30, right?"
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