Let’s Stop Commodifying and Appropriating Eastern Religions
The problem with “New Age” yoga shops
6 min readMay 16, 2020
Recently, I visited a trendy shop in Vancouver that primarily sells musical instruments from around the world, but also sells a variety of Eastern religious items like Tibetan singing bowls, mantra beads, and statues of Hindu and Buddhist deities like Ganesh and Green Tara. All of these musical…