The Yoga of Refusal

To sit in silent meditation with your right hand on your left thigh and your left hand grasping your right wrist (thus forming with your arms the Arabic word "la" or "no") is to assume the posture of the Yoga of Refusal.

It is to respond to the call of Herbert Marcuse to resist the one dimensionality of mass consumer society--to renounce consumerism and the commodification of the self.

There is no rising up without, first, a sitting down.

Silence. Exile. Cunning.

Resist. Refuse. Renounce.