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The 3 Best Things I Read This Week
You think YOUR yoga class is judgy? Or YOUR book had bad copy editing? Wait until you read these stories
Did you know that American death row prisoners get a physical exam “to ensure they’re fit enough to die”?
That bizarre fact turned up in an article distributed by the King Features Syndicate to news outlets here on the Gulf Coast. Here are three other stories that held my attention from start to finish.
An exposé of shaming in the yoga world
A practice that promotes enlightenment can get nasty, Kat Rosenfield argues at Unherd, a British website for “unheard” voices.
“The online communities where yoga instructors gather are some of the messiest and most judgmental environments on the internet, marked by high tension and fierce infighting — even before the pandemic forced studios to close their doors,” Rosenfield writes.
Battles have erupted over “the acceptability of sanskrit-based puns like ‘namaslay,’ and whether the white women…
