What You Need To Know About Racism, Diet and Yoga Culture

In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio, I’m chatting with Dianne Bondy – Yoga Teacher, Social Justice Activist & leading voice of the Yoga For All movement.

She talks about the intersection of racism and diet and yoga culture, why diet culture and yoga cannot co-exist and the white-washing of the yoga industry.

In This Episode, We Chat About

What she noticed about yoga culture and how this prompted her to become a social justice activist,
Dianne’s experience with discrimination and racism and the influence of this on her body image and self-worth,
How the media’s portrayal of people of colour creates stereotypes, perpetuates racism and impacts the self-worth of women of colour, 
The “white-washing” of yoga culture and how this is counter to the roots of yoga and yoga philosophy,
The co-opting of body positivity in yoga culture and all of the different reasons this is problematic,
How to study your privilege and viewpoints to be a better ally, 
How diet culture permeates into yoga culture and why it’s counter to fundamental principles of yoga,
Plus so much more!

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FRR 88 – What You Need To Know About Racism, Diet and Yoga Culture – With Dianne Bondy

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