THE ULTIMATE WHITE WOMAN PROBLEM, worrying that your yoga class is too white, about to be solved. Headline provided by Ace here.

Does it matter that contemporary yoga was shaped in part by white people?

Singleton’s surprising–and surely controversial–thesis is that yoga as it is popularly practiced today owes a greater debt to modern Indian nationalism and, even more surprisingly, to the spiritual aspirations of European bodybuilding and early 20th-century women’s gymnastic movements of Europe and America, than it does to any ancient Indian yoga tradition.