The Decolonizing Yoga website grew out of protests against the Yoga Journal Conference that was to be held at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco in 2013.
Employees of the hotel, as well as community-based projects and initiatives, conducted an ongoing boycott of the Hyatt Hotel to protest employee working conditions.
Part of the protest was a community yoga exercise held during a rally in front of the hotel. As a result, several hundred people joined the protest and pledged not to actively support or attend the Yoga Journal Conference.
After the boycott ended with negotiated talks, the Decolonizing Yoga website was established. The goal is to make visible the voices of queer people, people of color, people with disabilities, and others in disadvantaged positions, and to relate them to yoga, social justice, and marginalized bodies. The aim is to create a counterweight to the appropriation of yoga as a neoliberal function that perpetuates and perpetuates relations of domination. The website offers information and exchange under the categories Queer/Trans, Body Acceptance, Race, Cultural Appropriation and Feminism.