NELIY leaving Facebook
(Not an April Fool's joke!) For a while now, some NELIY members have been concerned about the apparent shift in values displayed by the Facebook and the Meta corporation and its principal shareholder and founder, Mark Zuckerberg. At our most recent committee meeting, we discussed NELIY's use of this social media platform, and felt it was becoming incompatible with yoga ethics. We find it a revealing exercise to consider each of the Yamas and Niyamas in turn, and reflect on whether use of Facebook supports our efforts at observing these guidelines for thought and behaviour.
In case you are not aware of how Meta/Facebook and its owner have shifted in their manifest attitudes over recent years, here's an article about some aspects of this. Meta's shift on the issue of inclusivity is at odds with the policy of our own parent organisation, IY(UK). We won't claim that this newspaper article is a perfectly reliable source, but most of what is in here is fairly easy to verify.
We announced on Facebook that we would be closing NELIY's Page by the end of March 2025. Today that Page is being closed down, so please keep an eye on this website to stay up-to-date with our workshops and news.
