Comments on: American Apparel Yoga: Less Crotch, More Cringe

By: Yoga Blog, Yoga Workshops, Yoga Events | YOGANONYMOUS

Yoga Blog, Yoga Workshops, Yoga Events | YOGANONYMOUS — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:55:37 +0000

[...] ads. But America’s 15 million yogis asked for authenticity. For example, the public balked at American Apparel’s ridiculous campaign of a model doing yoga when she clearly didn’t know her ass from her asana. These days, when an ad [...]

By: Renee Greiner

Renee Greiner — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:43:37 +0000

Yoga, is in its purest sense, about finding truth and eliminating the bull ****. Let American Apparel sell their clothes, and we can come back to our mats and spend our energy working on the yoga practice. And there was a point where my parsvotanasana looked much like that models; body awareness takes time to build so you start where you are.

If you’d like to practice in a classroom that doesn’t take itself too seriously…but where we do sweat a lot, come meet me at Sankalpah.com. Name’s Renee, I teach the Thursday Open Vinyasa at 8, and the Sundays Foundation at 11 a.m.. I believe in the asana practice, and you probably do too if you are reading this blog.

By: wholly Yoga

wholly Yoga — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:24:07 +0000

I think some folks who are new to yoga my relate to what seems like a very misaligned yoga pose. I have certainly seen people looking like this in yoga classes including ones I teach. Some yoga newbies especially those who are not dancers or athletes have limited body awareness at first. So they lock knees and round backs and look less than graceful. I think that was me when I started out.

So I’ll cut AA some slack on this on pose wise. Won’t comment on the outfit that another story

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American Apparel Taps That Yoga Ass, Again — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:42:57 +0000

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Ask the Yogacist: What Are the Rules of Yoga Teacher Gift Giving? — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:02:58 +0000

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By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:44 +0000

Really Zack? You guarantee?

By: Svasti

Svasti — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:39:33 +0000

You can guarantee that, can you @zack?

By: zack

zack — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:08:23 +0000

I guarantee all the people who commented in this thread: that is what YOU look like when you do yoga. Don’t fool yourselves. You probably think you look good having sex, too. You do not.