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Exercise and Fitness

AllyCat

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2. Take back yoga for the men?

Reply to ZenLefty (Original post)

Mon May 7, 2012, 12:00 AM

May 2012

Sorry, I do not subscribe to the "yoga needs to go back to its roots" philosophy where women stayed home and did all the frickin' work, while the guys went to "do yoga" on a mountain top for 3 months. Yoga is NOT Hinduism. Hinduism is not yoga.

I agree that most yoga in the US (especially that based at my gym) is just the physical asana with a short rest at the end and lots of breathing. But people need the exposure in some way and if that is what gets them to start so they grow in their practices, that's what they need.

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To Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way: NPR [View all] ZenLefty Apr 2012 OP

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