Shreena Gandhi on White Supremacy (#134) By Jacob Kyle Posted on June 7, 2021 #Ethics#Yoga About the Guest Shreena Gandhi is a part of the Religious Studies Department at Michigan State University, where is primarily teaches classes on religion and race in the Americas. She is currently finishing up edits on a manuscript, A Cultural History of Yoga in the United States, which looks at the impacts of race, gender, and class on how yoga is practiced and commodified in religious and secular spaces. She is also collaborating with 4 other scholars of South Asian descent on an article titled Feminist Critical Hindu Studies in formation. Dr. Gandhi has presented her work nationally and internationally and is committed to intersectional scholarship and meticulous research grounded in facts. In this Episode, We Discuss: Whiteness, white supremacy, and cultural appropriation.Honoring the roots of yoga.Colonialism, capitalism, and war and their relationship to white supremacy.Understanding orientalism and yoga.Unrooting westernization and white supremacy in the studies of philosophy and religion.Reflecting on privilege.An affirmative vision of the project of the United States. Quotes from the Episode Take the podcast with you Subscribe in your favourite app Read more like this #Practice #Yoga Yoga World Past, Present & Future with Nikki Vilella (#151) Nikki Vilella started teaching at Kula Yoga Project in New York City in 2005 and opened Kula Williamsburg (alongside Schuyler Grant) in 2010. By Jacob Kyle #Ethics #Research A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death. By Serenity Tedesco #Philosophy #Yoga Yoga & Western Esotericism with Anya Foxen (#148) In her research, Anya Foxen focuses on the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions and Western esotericism and metaphysical spiritualities. By Jacob Kyle #Ethics #Interdisciplinary Re-Membering Our Relation to the Earth Soil for Ecologically Sound Cities Climate Emergency, Pandemic, Racial Injustice – all point to humanity’s fatal error. Humanity is not the superior species on the Earth nor is any particular human group more superior than others. By Jean Gardner TARKA Journal Discover our latest issues or become a monthly subscriber to access all digital and/or print content. Tarka #06: On Spiritual Citizenship Tarka #05: On Queer Dharma Tarka #04: On Death Tarka #03: On Ecology Tarka #02: On Illusion Tarka #01: On Bhakti Tarka #0: On the Scholar-Practitioner