Yoga For Those Who Only Want To Read About It
Journalists love yoga because it fits perfectly into the narratives of everyday life. “Yoga Joins the Treatments for Kids with Disabilities,” reported the Evansville Courier & Press this summer. “Yoga Helps Pregnant Women Prepare for Delivery,” according to WNCN in North Carolina, an NBC affiliate, which recently broadcast a report about a prenatal yoga class offered by Healthy Moms in Raleigh. “Soldiers Shape up with Peaceful Yoga,” an AP-bylined piece about how they are using yoga to both prepare for and recover from combat, ran in the Bradenton [Florida] Herald about the same time.
But wait, there’s more: Tribune Media syndicates a strip called Gangsta Yoga with DJ Dog, which appears in newspapers all over the nation from the Detroit Free Press to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Then there’s yoga to relax sex workers! from the Hindustan Times; and the revelation from Fort Worth, Texas, that yoga is replacing kickball in the city’s high school gym classes. Still not convinced? How about yoga skin care, Christian yoga, iPod yoga, golf yoga, tennis yoga . . . well, you get the picture.
Illustration from here.
Hmm. There’s also, according to the times of india (picked up swiftly thereafter by some yoga teachers i know) yogalates. that’s yoga + pilates for those whose cores are undeveloped.
nice illustraions on the site link. i’m trying to decide which one i like best: the downward dog or the forward bend. something about football-shaped heads trapped between all those flowing lines…no, actually! i like shavasana! the chap’s hair is all on end, like he’s seen some terrifying things while playing dead.
Comment by Space Bar — December 16, 2006 @ 11:41 pm