Comments on: Inside Bikram’s Asana Championship: Fedoras and (Non)Assholes

By: GymBuddiez - Helpful Fitness Tips, Tools and Buddies in your Area » Vinnie Marino Crowned ‘The Yoga King’! Pop Goes the Yoga Gimmick

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:19 +0000

[...] from far and wide for a yoga fix from his highness. Though it doesn’t seem to have reached Bikram-level bootlicking, adoring students, including celebs like Heather Graham, David Duchovny and Jeremy Piven, mob his [...]

By: linda

linda — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:20:46 +0000

gotta tell ya — seeing those pastey skinned white guys in the little trunks kinda creeps me out….eeeeeeuuuuuuu

By: YogaforCynics

YogaforCynics — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:32:18 +0000

Ugh…I get into arguments with people when they start talking about “real yoga” or any setting up of judgmental perameters that go against the broad diversity and embrace of so many different ideas, beliefs, and practices that fall under the rubric of yoga–from the strict old-school Hindu thing to Christian yoga and people just trying to tighten up their butts–because that openness and acceptance is what makes me feel at home in the yoga world, with my own ever idiosyncratic and iconoclastic viewpoints being accepted along with everyone else’s….

And yet…competetive yoga…why not have competetive psychotherapy while we’re at it? Somehow, coming away from a yoga “event,” having “lost” at yoga…ugh…ugh…ugh…ugh…ugh…

By: Svasti

Svasti — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:01:03 +0000

I can’t tell you how much the idea of a ‘yoga competition’ makes my stomach churn. Seriously. Seems to me, they’ve turned it into a yoga-style external form competition – which is surely the only thing that can be measured here? I guess you can’t win the championship by focusing on your internal sensations, how open/closed your channels feel, etc?

Frightening.

Thanks for sharing.