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QAnon infiltrates the Yoga community and Yoga instructors are trying to fight back
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:39 pm
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Several months ago, Seane Corn, a yoga teacher and Instagram influencer in Los Angeles with more than 100,000 followers, started noticing something odd happening on her social media feeds. Many of her peers in the online wellness community were sharing posts that seemed aligned with QAnon, the vast pro-Trump conspiracy theory that falsely alleges that a cabal of satanic pedophiles and cannibals runs the world.
Not all of these posts mentioned QAnon explicitly. Some were making milder appeals to stop child sex trafficking. Others were advocating against mask-wearing or pushing baseless conspiracy theories about COVID-19. Most were wrapped in the same Instagram-friendly pastel-colored aesthetics that you might use to advertise a crystal healing workshop or a book of Rumi poems.
Eventually, Corn and other concerned wellness influencers decided to fight back. On Sunday, they posted a “wellness community statement” accusing QAnon of “taking advantage of our conscious community with videos and social media steeped with bizarre theories, mind control and misinformation.”
For years, QAnon was seen as a fringe right-wing phenomenon, populated by President Donald Trump’s most hard-core supporters. But in recent months, it has made inroads with groups outside Trump’s base, including vaccine skeptics, natural health fans and concerned suburban moms. Its followers have hijacked the online #SaveTheChildren movement, and inserted QAnon messaging into claims about child exploitation and human trafficking.
Corn said that the wellness community’s emphasis on truth-seeking and self-improvement makes it particularly vulnerable to a conspiracy theory like QAnon, which is all about sowing distrust in mainstream authorities under the guise of “doing your own research.” She said that QAnon’s motto — “where we go one, we go all” — was classic “yoga-speak,” and that many of the QAnon-related posts she had seen, like a YouTube video that called t Trump a “light healer,” seemed to have been carefully made to appeal to New Age sensibilities.
“They’re using the same music we might use in meditation classes,” Corn said. “It does things to the body, it makes you more available and open.”
Corn said that she had lost some followers after her anti-QAnon post, but gained others who were grateful that she spoke out. And she said she worried that the conspiracy theory might still be gaining steam among wellness fans.
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Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:45 pm to Street Hawk
Have these idiots ever thought that they were the ones being misled and falling for misinformation?
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:50 pm to Street Hawk
The left is seeing their institutions invaded and doesn’t like it.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:50 pm to Street Hawk
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yoga teacher and Instagram influencer
Haha. Good Lord, seriously?
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:51 pm to xxTIMMYxx
Did you notice that they the article makes vast, sweeping generalizations about an extremely disparate and diverse group of people and then projects their actions on the people they are trying to disparage?
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:52 pm to LSUnatick
This guy just posts drive by threads
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:52 pm to Street Hawk
yoga is demonic, there is literally zero reason to be doing that stuff
Posted on 9/16/20 at 3:55 pm to Man With A Plan
I disagree - yoga has changed my life.
It’s like for your balance and posture what having tight abs is for your core.
I can once again move my head from far left to far right without pain and tight muscles. I can be comfortable sitting in a folding chair or on metal bleachers without back pain for the first time in 10 years.
It’s not yoga alone, but losing 25 pounds, getting a near six pack abs, staying hydrated and implementing yoga - it’s life changing. People I haven’t seen for a while ask me what’s different about me. It’s also helped me with my posture and with eliminating 20-years of shoulder pain when I play tennis or lift weights
It’s like for your balance and posture what having tight abs is for your core.
I can once again move my head from far left to far right without pain and tight muscles. I can be comfortable sitting in a folding chair or on metal bleachers without back pain for the first time in 10 years.
It’s not yoga alone, but losing 25 pounds, getting a near six pack abs, staying hydrated and implementing yoga - it’s life changing. People I haven’t seen for a while ask me what’s different about me. It’s also helped me with my posture and with eliminating 20-years of shoulder pain when I play tennis or lift weights
This post was edited on 9/16/20 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:31 pm to Street Hawk
Truth seekers and crystal healing advocates seems like an odd combination.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:34 pm to Street Hawk
I have to admit, I had high hopes for this thread...but...
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:37 pm to SirWinston
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I disagree - yoga has changed my life.
It’s like for your balance and posture what having tight abs is for your core.
Yup. It is really the most scientifically advanced physical therapy out there these days. Not only does it help with strength, stamina, tone, coordination, etc. It helps psychologically to relax, reduce anxiety, etc.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:38 pm to Street Hawk
My fiancée took me to hot yoga last week.
It was awful.
It was awful.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:38 pm to Street Hawk
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Not all of these posts mentioned QAnon explicitly. Some were making milder appeals to stop child sex trafficking.
How dare they
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:39 pm to SirWinston
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I disagree - yoga has changed my life.
It’s like for your balance and posture what having tight abs is for your core.
I can once again move my head from far left to far right without pain and tight muscles. I can be comfortable sitting in a folding chair or on metal bleachers without back pain for the first time in 10 years.
It’s not yoga alone, but losing 25 pounds, getting a near six pack abs, staying hydrated and implementing yoga - it’s life changing. People I haven’t seen for a while ask me what’s different about me. It’s also helped me with my posture and with eliminating 20-years of shoulder pain when I play tennis or lift weights
All of which is preparing you to take down the Deep State when President Trump gives the signal.
I think this is a positive development for QAnon and the yoga community tbh
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:42 pm to UcobiaA
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Truth seekers and crystal healing advocates seems like an odd combination.
Counter-cultural ideas often ping off each other in the so-called "cultic milieu" which can help explain why some people can end up adopting a number of seeming incongruent ideologies, spiritual beliefs, conspiracy-theory beliefs, odd health beliefs, etc.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:45 pm to boosiebadazz
Lots of the Q followers are already into chakras, anti-vax, and anti-GMO ideas. The counter-cultural singularity is fo real.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 4:55 pm to Street Hawk
Sadly, this is not the weirdest hit piece on Q to surface. It'll only get worse from here.
One day it's parallels to the Nazis, the next it's a Jim Jones death cult.
The MSM is flailing.
One day it's parallels to the Nazis, the next it's a Jim Jones death cult.
The MSM is flailing.
Posted on 9/16/20 at 5:01 pm to Street Hawk
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that falsely alleges that a cabal of satanic pedophiles and cannibals runs the world.
Falsely???
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