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![University Yoga Class Halted Over 'Cultural Appropriation': Instructor After a firestorm of criticism, a student group now claims the class was ended because it simply wasn't popular. Kim Bellware Reporter, The Huffington Post Posted: 11/23/2015 05:27 PM EST Days after being widely ridiculed for suspending a yoga class for students with disabilities due to concerns over "cultural appropriation," a student center at the University of Ottawa is now saying the class was scrapped because no one attended them. "[No] one attended the classes so that's why we ended them, its not that hard to understand people, the fact that disabled people are getting harrassed [sic] over this is ridiculous," the university's Centre for Students with Disabilities said Monday via Facebook in response to criticism of its decision Yoga instructor Jennifer Scharf, who taught a class at the CSD since 2008, told the CBC on Sunday that she learned in September the class wouldn't be happening because several staff members and students were uncomfortable with "cultural issues. "I guess it was this cultural appropriation issue because yoga originally comes from India," Scharf told the CBC. Scharf said she offered to change the name of the course to "mindful stretching" since her instructions don't address Hindu scripture or other aspects tied to the practice's religious roots.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/045/742/88b.png "University Yoga Class Halted Over 'Cultural Appropriation")
