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'Why Are Mediocre White Women The Face of Yoga?' Yoga Teacher Divya Calls Out Racial Bias In Wellness Industry

Summary by Shine My Crown
Divya Bala, a respected yoga teacher, wellness coach, and digital creator based in New York City, is making waves on Instagram for challenging what she calls the “algorithmic erasure” of South Asian voices in modern yoga culture. In a post and accompanying video that has gone viral since Friday, May 23, Divya took aim at the wellness industry’s overwhelming preference for white influencers, despite yoga’s deep South Asian roots. “Why are medioc…
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Shine My Crown broke the news in on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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