What Yoga Means To Me

When I was approached to write an article about what yoga is to me, I immediately thought of a recent conversation I had with a friend regarding cultural appropriation, capitalism and fitness yoga.  You see, it’s easy for me to distant myself from a topic by intellectualizing it.  However, underneath the academic catchphrases and meta-theory, there was a deeper story of the meaning waiting to be told.  

In my junior year of college I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression.  I say ‘diagnose’, it’s a neatly packaged term, when I really mean to say my life was turned upside down, violently shaken and put on hold for the next three years.  

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