Probably not. But that is mostly because people don’t know about all the different types. Plus it’s not as trendy as yoga.

The teacher is white. I was talking about her. So no, I am not assuming only white people do yoga.

That is very interesting! You need more stars. LOL. Now I can see the appropriation side of it being a potential problem if it’s being done in a certain way, so it seems like a reasonable concern to have but it is one that could maybe be cleared up easily enough. What other issues were there?

True facts. Something we should all do and probably (certainly if speaking about myself) don’t do enough.

It does seem like it was very over-the-top / kneejerky from what you’re saying. That sucks. I was leaning the other way because of their letter and the genuine concerns about appropriation do make sense to me, (I mean, I wouldnt shut it down without evidence that it was problematic, but I could see where they were…

Not all illnesses need to be treated, so that’s not really the definition, no. But that’s besides the point really. As I said, I can see your perspective on it, we just fundamentally disagree.

I think we are just taking different connotations from it. That’s the problem with interpreting language. It is probably just coming from our different experiences of such terms. To me it says: Mentally ill people need to be fixed, which we can do with exercise. May be influenced by my a: shitty doctors, b: shitty…

Neo-hippy is a bit of a warning sign but it’s great if she doesn’t subscribe to all the exoticism. If that’s the case, it would seem to be a huge overreaction on the schools part.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on the semantics I think. It’s fine to not find it offensive and I can understand that. I just happen to think it is. But these opinions do vary within the community.

It’s the idea that exercise *can* help with depression, not *does*. Also ‘mental health’ is such a crappy umbrella term and covers so much that can’t be helped by exercise, that I think its shitty to use it as your stretching class name. I’m genuinley glad that its helped you, though. Depression sucks. I can agree…

Good point!

Yeah, that’s where we need information that isn’t in the article. Hence ‘kinda’ agree. If a lot of people were taking it the Eastern Mysticism route or the instructor was using that in her lessons, I think it was right to at least examine at these issues. (As I said, shutting it down may have been too harsh.) If it…

Except that it is not always good for stress. Or anxiety. Or mental health. And even if it was, we still shouldn’t be implying that mental health issues are the *worst.* *possible.* *thing.*

Yes, I am.

As a person with multiple disabilities, yes. It is kinda important to me actually.

Aww. ‘You don’t know what it’s like to be physically disabled’ cute assumption, bro!

Yeah, it would have been better if they could have come to some kinda of agreement. We don’t really know if it was specifically the type of yoga she was offering that was the problem or if it was yoga in general, which makes it a bit tricky to make a decision. It’s easy to judge either side but yoga can be problematic…

It can help *some* people with *some* mental health issues. I hear often enough that exercise is a cure all and when it leaves my partner crying because apparently only exercise will magically cure her depression despite the fact that she can’t exercise due to severe fibro and ME. Also the concept that mental illness…

Backatcha. ;)

I actually addressed that in the post. Maybe they were finding a nice way to let her down without telling her that ‘Stretching for Mental Health’ is kinda ableist. Although maybe not!