213: Yoga for Gaza, Yoga for Israel

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Can yoga bring hostages home? No. Can yoga stop a genocide? Also no. But this won’t stop earnest practitioners from instrumentalizing practice for both purposes. For supporters of Israel, practice is dedicated to the protection of land, the return of hostages, and to uphold the spiritual valor of soldiers. Among supporters of Palestine and a ceasefire, yoga practice and community is an organizing principle for decrying genocide, building mutual aid, and resisting global colonialism. Both factions cite the Bhagavad Gita. Does yoga support nationalistic violence and body fascism? Isn’t that where its modern origins lie? Or does it have deeper, intersectional roots in universal liberation? The interpretive war, articulated and inflamed online, only accelerates the material war. But there is a third space we examine today: the gap between how spiritual aspirations appear and are praised or condemned in the world of the spectacle, and how they play out in the flesh. Show Notes Tel Aviv Yoga Event About : Israeli hostages taken by Hamas We Are Still Standing handstand event Carmel Gat | Yoga in captivity Taken captive: Carmel Gat, seen doing yoga with hostage children Initial Twitter posting of Alfie's yoga class in Gaza Reserve combat engineer practices yoga with soldiers in a house in Gaza IG post | criticism of Yoga Journal cover In Israel, Chanting 'Om' Between Missiles What does Israel's rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? AP: Calculating death numbers in Gaza Sarah Martin Little Rock yoga benefit event Rasha Madkour fundraiser for The Longhorn Muslim Alumni Network UK yoga event for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund Hot Yoga Glasgow yogathon for the International Rescue Committee A look inside the growing Pro-Palestine student solidarity encampment at UCSB Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators At USC Join Camp-In Movement On Heels Of Valedictorian Controversy Sheena Sood's Yoga for Palestine series at Bhakti Yoga Movement in Portland 50. Sellouts & Zealots (w/Sheena Sood) Samson's Foxes insignia Reserve combat engineer practices yoga with soldiers in a house in Gaza The Dangerous History Behind Netanyahu’s Amalek Rhetoric Dark Mirror: A Torah View of Revenge, and its Reflection in Israeli Media During Operation Iron Swords Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we tend to think about liberation movements,
0:03.7	we tend to think about if the liberation movement were to win,
0:07.9	everyone would be more free and equal.
0:10.5	And part of what's really tricky in this part of the world is that some of what might be viewed as a liberation movement in this case against Israeli occupation and aggression were they to win women and gay people would not be more free.
0:25.6	They would they would they would have actually a harder life than they have in Israel for the most part.
0:29.7	Yeah and so the question is well what did the rest of us do to support them?
0:32.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Hello everyone. Welcome to Conspiratoriality where we investigate the intersections of
0:55.7	conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian
1:01.2	extremism. I'm Matthew Remsky. I'm Julian Walker. and we are on
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1:24.0	Can spirituality,
1:28.0	213 Yoga for Gaza,
1:31.0	Yoga for Israel, Israel.
1:33.0	Let's start with some basics for new listeners.
1:35.0	It's not news that among the wellness disciplines that have emerged over the past century,
1:40.0	yoga has never simply been about deep breathing and stretching or mental focus or peace of mind.
1:46.0	Even if these benefits are key words in the upfront sales pitch,
1:51.0	going all in and especially becoming a teacher usually means attaching an array of
1:57.6	other meanings to postures, flowing movements, and the sensations of meditation.
2:03.0	Why?
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