You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️

Viet Buddhist. 1000-hr yoga cert teacher. Interrogating Orientalism, class, race, patriarchy in spirituality. alt: @ximuoicay #radicaldharma #traumainformed

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Been a while since I’m on this account, mainly bc of the whiteness & spiritual bypassing in many yoga + meditation spaces.

Participating in this event by @ebmc_oakland today & marking this occasion to come back in hope of connecting w ppl practicing spirituality & abolition 🌸

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

@VBalasubramani You’re in Seattle!

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Statement of solidarity from our Viet leftists collective in full support of the Sikh farmers protesting in India, especially women and Dalit people at the forefront of the struggle.

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

“Chennai based photographers- Naresh Nil and Bhardwaj Sundar,  break all the stereotypes and re-create the same image of Gods with a dark tone in their beautiful photographs.”

https://t.co/f0XCKsPZV6

[Lama Rod Owens @LamaRod1]

May we all experience a sense of home today no matter where we are at or who we are with.

[Iyengar Yoga NYC @iyengarnyc]

Geeta Iyengar
December 7, 1944 to December 16,2018

We received news from India that Geetaji has passed away. Her light will always accompany us in our practice and study.

Image © Jake Clennell

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Rest In Peace, Geetaji.

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Swami Vivekananda came to the West because Gwyneth does yoga.

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

😂😂😂

[E! News @enews]

Yoga has been around for thousands of years—but according to Gwyneth Paltrow, she is the one who popularized it in Western culture. https://t.co/ukLifApsoG

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Yoga conference organizers, please take note 📝. This is a great model 👇🏽

[Shelterforce @Shelterforce]

Race Forward will now be giving $100k to community organizing in every city where they hold the Facing Race conference. They've also spent $500k on local Black and Brown owned businesses and labor teams in Detroit. #FacingRace2018

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Don’t miss this Portland!! https://t.co/pzjTF66u3P

[Andrew Gillum @AndrewGillum]

I’m deeply appreciative of law enforcement's quick response to the shooting at the yoga facility in Tallahassee today. No act of gun violence is acceptable. I'm in close communication with law enforcement officials and will be returning to Tallahassee tonight.

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

The only thing I would change about “holistic review” is that it sounds like a white woman in dreads named Shakti is going to scan me with reiki-infused crystals to check how bioenergetically balanced my chakras are.

Otherwise congrats and great job @patriotact team! 👏👏👏

[nur nasreen @Nuri_ibrahim]

Please watch @patriotact on @netflix tomorrow! This team worked very hard!

[Kaitlin B Curtice @KaitlinCurtice]

Just went to my first yoga class-loved it.

So, how do we practice yoga w/out appropriating an existing, beautiful culture that birthed it?

BC y’all know it wasn’t invented in America by a white person.

(my yoga instructor played native flute music 2day and I chuckled at that)

[SUCH @Such]

Find those safe spaces. And if you can’t find it, try and create it. We need it. 💜💕

[SUCH @Such]

I just left this #BlackGirlMagic #yoga and I was balling my eyes out by the time we got to deep breathing. I didn’t realize I needed it. But today I saw how vitally necessary it is to have safe spaces as black people or as people of color in general. Let me (try to) explain...

[angela folasade @undommeme]

come join me for black + brown yoga next tuesday from 715-845 @ iyengar yoga detroit

[You Shall Not Spiritual Bypass 🙅🏻‍♀️ @nikkiyoga]

Thread on asana and #ableism👇🏽

[Wrent & Frayed (Wren Ashe Frey MACDS) @crippledscholar]

um hi ableds, can we talk about disability and yoga for a minute?

Ok, first off it is never ok to give unsolicited medical advice to disabled people ever

Please stop doing this in general

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Just kidding there's more