Does your background (race, ethnicity, gender, religious identity) shape how you view yoga (religious, spiritual, or exercise)? And Why Does This Matter?

Posted: March 8th, 2022

This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin®.
Instructions
Requirements:
1000-word minimum
12-point Times New Roman
1” margins
Chicago in-text citations
Cite and engage at least one news story (see below)
Cite and engage at least one reading from each module in the course.
As part of the general education requirement for this course you are required to revise previous written work into a longer paper. In order to fulfill this requirement and to meet our course objectives, you are required to develop your yoga journal entries into one systematic, formal essay about yoga in which you engage an issue of contemporary yoga following one of these themes found in recent news stories:
Cultural Appropriation: https://thewire.in/books/cultural-borrowing-kwame-anthony-appiahbook-extract-lies-that-bind
Yoga and Race: https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/yoga/

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

What is “real” yoga?: Anya Foxen from WindWellness.com
Is yoga religious?:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/narendra-modi-yoga-india
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25006926

Is yoga religious? Understanding the Encinitas Public School Yoga Trial

Be sure to cite the news story that discusses the issue that you are writing about and engage it to frame your overall essay.
Papers that are late for any reason will incur a 10% grade reduction for each day the paper is late with no exceptions.
***UPDATED OPTION FOR FINAL PROJECT***
For our signature assignment for this course, we will address the big questions of our course, namely the development of yoga and the role of power dynamics, diversity, and equity in that development.
In order to fulfill this requirement, to connect our various disciplinary approaches, and to meet our course objectives, you will draw from the work that you’ve previously done in each of your participant-observation yoga field journal entries and our conversations in the discussion posts, revising both from each module into one systematic project about yoga that answers one of the following questions that have been the focus of recent news stories:
Is Yoga Cultural Appropriation?
https://thewire.in/books/cultural-borrowing-kwame-anthony-appiahbook-extract-lies-that-bind

Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

Does your background (race, ethnicity, gender, religious identity) shape how you view yoga (religious, spiritual, or exercise)? And Why Does This Matter?
Wind Wellness.com Anya Foxen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/narendra-modi-yoga-india
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25006926

Is yoga religious? Understanding the Encinitas Public School Yoga Trial

Your final revised project can take the following forms based on your academic, career, and learning goals and the technical skills that you wish to develop:
Format Length
Formal Essay (1,000+ words)