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April 20, 2025

A yoga studio where Kaya teaches a group of foreigners. The walls are multi-colored, the floor is grass turf, and sunlight streams in through the open-air back wall.

Yoga Wasn’t Meant to Save the West

Environmental Sustainability, Food, Social Justice, Travel, YogaBy Kaya MallickApril 20, 20251 Comment

Yoga is often marketed as “India’s gift to the West.” This rhetoric masks a troubling truth – that yoga is an outgrowth of uniquely South Asian problems.

© Kaya T Mallick
2026
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