These new-agers have some nerve to market supposed indigenous sacred ceremonies. It is definately packaged mostly for nuagers, as she mentions this 'sacred mayan' tradition, and then conveniently drops quotes from the Upanishads and talks about her background as a yoga teacher. India and Central Amerika are very far from each other, Hinduism has nothing to do with mayan traditions. And being a yoga teacher does not give one any right to sell 'sacred ceremonies', especially with a pseudo-ethnic facade to the ceremonies. Such (typically white) arrogance.
I doubt that the descendants of the Mayan traditions mentioned by Clarfield are hanging out at a specialty tea shop, drinking spendy teas while paying for guided meditations being sold as their indigenous ceremonies. lol
If she wants to sell guided meditations, she needs to market them as such and quit ripping off Mayan traditions. Be up front about it, it is a yoga lady charging 25 bucks a gullible person to meditate on hot chocolate. Yet she sells it to them as a 'sacred mayan ceremony' instead.
These new-agers do not realize, they cannot buy a sacred tradition the way they can go buy a yogamat. They, especially white folks, tend to think they are entitled to everything. So they continue practicing these neo-colonialistic, culture-vulturing habits.
