Taking the parts you like from something and leaving the parts you do not is not cultural appropriation.
Any culture can redefine anything they want from other cultures. Just like most western yoga studios are LGBTQ friendly and many Hindus are not.
Any culture can redefine anything they want from other cultures. Just like most western yoga studios are LGBTQ friendly and many Hindus are not.
That is false. Please don't spread this myth. The homophobia is mostly a social hangover from colonial times. Steps are being taken to change that, and it should go away with time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_religion#Hin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India
https://time.com/5918808/homophobia-homosexuality-lgbt-asian...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/11/asia/british-empire-lgbt-...
Also blaming pretty much everything bad on colonialism is a pretty tired excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs
Which guess what? Is just a variation of a Yoga move from India that the teachers used to give to improve cognition in children who were not focussing in class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murga_punishment
The idea is that squats or moving your head up and down rushes blood to your head. Further if you hold certain activation points like your ears whilst doing it, it activates certain parts of the brain that improve coordination and brain power.
All ripped from Hinduism, what I suggest to those who love Yoga and feel they benefit from Yoga is explore the other types of Yoga mentioned in the Gita. After all, if the Rishis/Sages were right about Yoga, Hinduism is clearly onto something in the Gita about the other types of Yoga.