Roaming the grounds at the Wanderlust Festival in Whistler, Canada, Ian MacKenzie asks the deeper question on every yogi’s mind: where is yoga going in the West?
“THAT’S NOT YOGA.” You’ll hear that phrase a lot these days, particularly in jaded spiritual circles. The assumption is that yoga, as it’s practiced now, has devolved into a narcissistic physical exercise that melds perfectly with our hyper-consumerist economic system and fails to produce any lasting social change. That’s one perspective.
