RickshawFan
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Personal opinion....This whole case makes me livid, from the exclusiveness of western yoga, to the comfortable living you have to have to be a practitioner, to the absurd prices some of these retreats are charging in developing countries with very low overhead, to exploiting folks with free labor ("volunteers", as at this Bahamian retreat), to the reality of accommodations that are far different than advertised, to institutionalized discomfort at this retreat, exploitation in every dimension.... and how uncomfortable this must be for someone in an outlier demographic, when really it shouldn't be, because yoga is supposed to be a kind of universal happiness, feel good, and welcoming place. I've never found it so, but that's how it's marketed and imaged in the western world. And I find it to be cult-like: gives me the willies.
Because this has been my experience, I feel terror on behalf of Taylor, and what she must have gone through.
Because this has been my experience, I feel terror on behalf of Taylor, and what she must have gone through.