Cultural Appropriation & Healing the World With Kindness with Reema Datta
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week's guest -- Reema Datta -- is an Indian-American teacher, speaker, humanitarian, author and musician who has dedicated her life to offering yoga as a holistic practice leading to healing and lasting peace.
Reema grew up in a family of yogis, having learned first learned yoga philosophy from her grandfather, Ayurvedic cooking from her grandmother, and sacred song and mantra from her mother.
On this episode of Yogaland, Reema shares her history and how she developed her approach to teaching yoga for emotional healing. She also addresses cultural appropriation in yoga and the narratives of shame and victimhood that she finds problematic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 250 of Yoga Land, 250. |
| 0:11.2 | That just feels like a milestone and I feel as though some fireworks should shoot out of your |
| 0:19.6 | device or something to show you my excitement. But that's not going to happen. One thing that |
| 0:25.2 | is going to happen that's new about the podcast is that you can now watch the podcast on YouTube. |
| 0:32.4 | So this is the first interview that I have recorded both audio and the video. So you can of course |
| 0:40.2 | let's continue to listen to it as you always do. Or if you are a YouTuber, a YouTube person, |
| 0:47.6 | you can go watch the interview as well. And you probably know by now that you can watch |
| 0:53.9 | Jason's podcasts yoga teachers companion on YouTube. So I thought if he can do it, I can do it too. |
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| 1:31.1 | Jason has a webinar he's doing this Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. And it is a behind the scenes |
| 1:39.6 | peak at his upcoming 500 hour teacher training. So it's three modules of 100 hours each. And this |
| 1:50.6 | is the online only training that he's doing this year. You can take one module, you can take all |
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| 2:18.2 | 12th and you feel like, Oh darn, I missed it. I will post the webinar replay up on the registration |
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| 2:33.1 | today's interview. As I mentioned in the podcast last week, I'm just so excited to have a great |
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