by Nancy Alder One glance at the latest Yoga Journal (and its ads) and it is obvious that the American yoga market is filled with women on mats. The recently released Yogawoman movie further discusses the connection between yoginis and the community that the practice has provided for woman yoga students and teachers alike. The Shakti boom [...]
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“We hand-picked six guys who we thought were a little bit susceptible to injury and not as flexible. We put those six in and then said to the others it’s not compulsory, but we ended up having to knock the guys back, because we can only fit 10 in the room.” Conditioning coach Adam Beard [...]
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Impromptu Yoga Dude Week continues! From our resident Yoga Dude himself, Neal Pollack, a response to Bikram Choudhury: Cult Rock Star, Yogapreneur, Magic Genie Sex Machine, and the media’s overt obsession with yoga-as-sex-orgy scandalocity. “The author manages to combine the sex and the Stupid Body Tricks into a pungent men’s magazine dream-stew of yoga quasi-libel. [...]
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Because it’s impromptu dude week after all! There are some spirited stirrings over a MAN on the cover of Yoga Journal March ’11. One commenter went so far as to declare “There is a guy on the cover! The times, they are a changing…” Well. Meet LA yoga teacher and George Clooney’s cousin’s doppelganger, Matt [...]
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Hear ye! Hear ye! It’s basketball and yoga! Together at last, like PowerBars and Gatorade. And churning out headlines like: NBA players love yoga without growing ponytails. Thanks YAHOO! Sports! – extra exclamation ours. Turns out yoga is becoming more acceptable for regular dudes, but it’s still helpful to keep the fluff talk and granola-munchers [...]
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We know dudes do yoga! We’re happy to see them, they’re happy to see us, and we’ve seen the pics! But are guys still under-served in the yoga world? Today on MPR, that’s Minnesota Public Radio, commentator Peter Smith lamented the ‘rigid “guy” mindset’ and offered some suggestions for dude-friendly yoga postures, like “searching for [...]
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Yowsers no trousers! Hey Maroon 5 fans, or man fans for that matter, lead singer Adam Levine wants to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancers and will bear his naked bod to do so! The Maroon 5 frontman teamed up with Everyman, a Brit org campaigning to stamp out male cancer. Photos are featured [...]
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Well hello there! Tired of yoga dudes not getting enough recognition and face time? Well thank dudeness, it’s Dudes Doing Yoga to the manly rescue. Oh right, because guys do yoga too. No, it’s not meant for the intent and purpose of sweet tooth eye candy (we don’t think), but hey we’ve been oogling enough over scantily-clad slimfit yoginis [...]
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Hey, guys do yoga too! A recent article in The New York Times highlights once again the manly approach to yoga practice, and an increase of men eschewing the stereotype that yoga has to be a strictly feminine and/or wussy thing. Is it because now even athletes like LeBron James, Amani Toomer, Lance Armstrong and [...]
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Meet the Yo Yoga bros! They’ll teach you asana, yo. Did we not mention this yoga hip hop phenomenon? So it isn’t the most technical instruction we’ve ever seen, but these dudes make yoga look approachable and fun. We totally want to go do plow pose on a farm! (the scenery changes may be our [...]
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