In the last three years, the rise of cultural appropriation has become a topical subject of debate in the yoga industry and revealed a number of cultural insensitivities in the western world. I am a minority south Asian woman living in the UK and I have been raised by migrant parents who came to the UK in the 1960s. My parents' values, beliefs and culture also arrived in their suitcase when they first landed at Heathrow airport!
I have lived in the UK all my life, very close to 50 years now, and fitting in was sometimes challenging for me, but I guess I also had the type of personality of always wanting to please others, so I would follow the norm and not question anything. Was I ignorant? No, I don’t think I was; I believe my parents brought me up to the best of their ability. After all, they too
