#135: Cultural Appreciation Versus Cultural Appropriation of Yoga with Pranidhi Varshney
Pranidhi Varshney is the founder of Yoga Shala West which is based in Los Angele and has been practising yoga for 15 years. She believes that learning is cyclical where the student learns from the teacher and the teacher learns from the student unlike a top-down relationship.
Previously, within the yoga community, there was a tendency to overlook the origins and lineage of yoga. Pranidhi feels it's important for this conversation and voices around yoga to include people of South Asian descent. Nevertheless, she is quick to admit that Western practitioners have played a key role in promoting…
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