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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 59. What is the Relationship between Race and Yoga?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46401

Blurb:

While yoga is popularly regarded as a practice that promotes physical and spiritual well-being, access to its healing properties is often stratified by interlocking categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality. A range of social and systemic theories of race and colonialism can help conceptualise the relationship between race and yoga.

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