When did yoga become so plastic?
When did a 5,000-year-old practice to attain liberation and promote physical and emotional well-being come to hurt people for centuries, even millennia?
Here’s a definition of yoga I found online:
Yoga : a Hindu theistic philosophy teaching the suppression of all activity of body, mind, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and attain liberation
: a system of physical postures, breathing techniques, and sometimes meditation derived from Yoga but often practiced independently especially in Western cultures to promote physical and emotional well-being
Wikipedia says that traditional yoga focuses on meditation and release from worldly attachments. The practice dates back 5,000 years.
Below is a picture of yoga pants. Nearly all yoga clothes are made of plastic—that is, petroleum by-products.
What’s the problem? Well, if you look up yoga and plastic, most pages I found talk about the health risks to the wearer of the chemicals in them, especially forever chemicals aka PFAS.
I agree the risks to the wearer are important, but plastic pollutes. Buying plastic funds polluting and depleting more resources.
Pollution and depletion hurt people. Since plastic takes centuries to break down, buying most yoga clothes funds hurting people for centuries, even millennia.
When did a 5,000-year-old practice to attain liberation and promote physical and emotional well-being come to hurt people for centuries, even millennia?
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