Luvena Rangel - "Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Luvena Rangel, founder of The Curvy Yogi, talks with J about the trauma caused by colonization and the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation. After reading Luvena's blog, Too Much Ado Around Isms, Or is it?, J reached out to discuss the hurt caused by western yoga teachers' insensitivity to the experiences of Desi's and BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of Color,) and how to stop perpetuating a legacy of injustice by recognizing privilege and creating more impartial narratives. This episode is sponsored by Ropana CBD.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, whoever you are, the time has come. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:20.0 | And if this is a regular thing for you, what's up? How's everybody |
| 0:24.6 | doing? Did your week go okay? If that's not you, welcome. Come on in. Make yourself comfortable. |
| 0:34.3 | I have an important talk to share with you today with Louvina Rangel. I'm going to tell you |
| 0:41.6 | about that some in just a bit. But first, let me thank everyone who reached out to me. I want to let |
| 0:49.7 | everyone know that I'm feeling much better. If you were listening last week, |
| 0:57.8 | I was talking about some pain issues that reemerged for me. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, I took a few days off, |
| 1:02.8 | and I was able to turn it around pretty darn quick. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm feeling pretty much back up to my usual self again. |
| 1:10.3 | And if you've been around long enough, years ago when this show |
| 1:14.4 | first started is when I first started admitting to those pain patterns. I was doing these |
| 1:20.8 | intros in tears, and really at that time, I felt lost. I felt like I didn't have any tools to address it. |
| 1:29.5 | I didn't know what to do about the pain I was in and I was feeling debilitated by it. |
| 1:35.4 | The good news is that I clearly do have some tools now that I didn't have a few years ago when I started this. |
| 1:42.9 | Because it was months and months of a process |
| 1:46.5 | of like six months to eight months it took me to turn it around at the beginning. And this time, |
| 1:53.5 | it took me three days. So that's pretty good. That's a pretty big improvement. The important thing |
| 1:59.0 | is that I feel like I have a pattern to address it. |
| 2:04.4 | You see, I've stopped thinking of my pain as like areas of my body that are injured almost. |
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