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Doing yoga as a brown person in an all-white yoga studio can be a pretty uncomfortable experience – more uncomfortable than the yoga poses themselves. I can handle standing out because of the colour of my skin, but it’s the inexplicit spirituality element of it all that puts me at unease. Rolling up my mat and catching the eye of the bright blue eyed, blonde-haired instructor who gives me a knowing (almost reciprocal) look while saying ‘namaste’ makes me feel a bit off. ‘Namaste’ doesn’t mean much to me because I’m not Indian, nor am I Hindu. I know it’s a uniform thing for yoga instructors to say but having heard plenty of others outside of the studio say this to me, it gets me every time. Most days, someone makes the assumption that I’m Indian and asks me just that. But I was born in Melbourne, and am a Sri Lankan Australian who grew up Buddhist.

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