I don’t like International Day of Yoga

Zarna Joshi
2 min readJun 16, 2022

It was never a good idea

My statement posted on social media June 25th 2021

Me, Womxn March, January 2017

Modi came up with the idea of an International Day of Yoga as a way to try to re-establish the Indian origins of yoga after it had been culturally appropriated and bastardized by the west for decades. I understand and sympathize with his motivation.

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog