Topics which we will explore:

• What is the “take back yoga campaign” all about? 

• How do we navigate the tricky territory of cultural appreciation amidst such widespread cultural appropriation?

• What about the colonisation of yoga? And how does the “pizza effect” fit into this story? 

• Is there one unbroken Yoga Tradition, or a multiplicity of different and often conflicting yoga traditions? 

• What are we teaching in the history of yoga! Do we over simplify for convenience? Or are we all aspiring renunciates?

• Is the health and wellness industry actually meant to make us healthy and well? Or just like the illusive search for perfection and liberation, will it always be a little out of our reach and keep us on the treadmill of buying more?

• Does corporate yoga enable people to stay in high stress jobs and avoid making some important life changing decisions or does it enable people to bring some new perspectives and calm into their corporate life?

• Does our contemporary yoga support social justice issues or is it another form of avoidance, as many of us feel that all we can do in times of environmental destruction, inequality and a globalised society that values profit over people, is to focus on our breath rather than make a meaningful change. 

• Why are so many women practising yoga, when yoga was a practice designed by men for men? Or is it that we don’t find women in the history of yoga, as yoga as we now know it was no where in its history!

• Is opting out of a yoga lineage the main way to halt the abuse in yoga? Or do we really need to restructure how we are teaching or is there something invaluable in a guru-student relationship that must be preserved at all costs?

• In the words of Andrea Jain, how did yoga go from being so “counter culture” to so “pop culture?”

• Finally, to namaste or not to namaste?