Category Archives: Culture

According to Elena Brower, Some People Critique GLBL YOGA to “literally gain eyeballs” /// GLBL YOGA Apologists Get Weird

Last week marked Yoganonymous’ turn to post a GLBL YOGA apologist piece. This time it came complete with a streamed interview with celebriyoga’s most ubiquitous self-help matriarch, Elena Brower. Before the interview was a very strange pseudo-defense of GLBL YOGA

/ July 2, 2012 / 30 comments

According to Elena Brower, Some People Critique GLBL YOGA to “literally gain eyeballs” /// GLBL YOGA Apologists Get Weird

Last week marked Yoganonymous’ turn to post a GLBL YOGA apologist piece. This time it came complete with a streamed interview with celebriyoga’s most ubiquitous self-help matriarch, Elena Brower. Before the interview was a very strange pseudo-defense of GLBL YOGA

/ July 2, 2012 / 30 comments

Whatever Western “Yogis” Touch Turns to Gold (or Pooh?) /// Summer Solstice Times Square 2012

The above photo, which is being passed around the ol’ Facebook, carries with it an increasingly ubiquitous message about yoga’s bigger-is-better–is-bolder–is-ballsier identity crisis. Everywhere you look someone is hosting an event that claims to be the biggest of its kind,

/ June 25, 2012 / 17 comments

Whatever Western “Yogis” Touch Turns to Gold (or Pooh?) /// Summer Solstice Times Square 2012

The above photo, which is being passed around the ol’ Facebook, carries with it an increasingly ubiquitous message about yoga’s bigger-is-better–is-bolder–is-ballsier identity crisis. Everywhere you look someone is hosting an event that claims to be the biggest of its kind,

/ June 25, 2012 / 17 comments

GLBL YOGA Response /// The New Tribe Requires Celebrities, Corporate Sponsorship, and a Butt Load of Dollars /// Or, Does It?

Last week, the organizers of GLBL YOGA decided to do a little damage control in the form of an article on Elephant Journal after it turned out so many people were not “buying” the GLBL YOGA pitch for huge funds

/ June 19, 2012 / 65 comments

GLBL YOGA Response /// The New Tribe Requires Celebrities, Corporate Sponsorship, and a Butt Load of Dollars /// Or, Does It?

Last week, the organizers of GLBL YOGA decided to do a little damage control in the form of an article on Elephant Journal after it turned out so many people were not “buying” the GLBL YOGA pitch for huge funds

/ June 19, 2012 / 65 comments

Nothing Says India Like an Infinity Pool /// Herbs Are For Meditators /// Meditators Are For Sale

Here’s the ad in question: Now, I don’t love using the term “Eurotrash,” but it’s hard for me to think of anything else when I see an “infinity pool.” Basically, it’s a pool that sits on the edge of a

/ June 18, 2012 / 10 comments

Nothing Says India Like an Infinity Pool /// Herbs Are For Meditators /// Meditators Are For Sale

Here’s the ad in question: Now, I don’t love using the term “Eurotrash,” but it’s hard for me to think of anything else when I see an “infinity pool.” Basically, it’s a pool that sits on the edge of a

/ June 18, 2012 / 10 comments

Are Yogalebrities Better in Bed? /// Of Course. They’re Better at Everything!

Thanks to one of our readers for passing along Elephant Journal‘s recent article “Are Yoga Teachers Better in Bed?,” which basically reads like the textual equivalent of a fluffer on a porn set. That being the case, we’ve shamelessly taken

/ June 13, 2012 / 11 comments

Are Yogalebrities Better in Bed? /// Of Course. They’re Better at Everything!

Thanks to one of our readers for passing along Elephant Journal‘s recent article “Are Yoga Teachers Better in Bed?,” which basically reads like the textual equivalent of a fluffer on a porn set. That being the case, we’ve shamelessly taken

/ June 13, 2012 / 11 comments

Gigantic Yoga Events in a Park are Pretty Weak /// Other Gigantic Events You Could Attend

You know how one spoonful of medicine is super healing, but twenty spoonfuls of the same medicine is super gonna kill you? Exactly. That’s how I view these over-the-top yoga events. They just sound all kinds of lame. Here’s a

/ June 12, 2012 / 46 comments

Gigantic Yoga Events in a Park are Pretty Weak /// Other Gigantic Events You Could Attend

You know how one spoonful of medicine is super healing, but twenty spoonfuls of the same medicine is super gonna kill you? Exactly. That’s how I view these over-the-top yoga events. They just sound all kinds of lame. Here’s a

/ June 12, 2012 / 46 comments

Big Huff ‘n Puff About Rich People on Rooftops /// Really?

Last week we were inundated with emails wanting to know our opinion on the “fancy people do yoga on rooftops” article posted on Yoga Journal‘s “Yoga Buzz.” Truth be told, none of us could come up with an intelligent thing

/ June 6, 2012 / 31 comments

Big Huff ‘n Puff About Rich People on Rooftops /// Really?

Last week we were inundated with emails wanting to know our opinion on the “fancy people do yoga on rooftops” article posted on Yoga Journal‘s “Yoga Buzz.” Truth be told, none of us could come up with an intelligent thing

/ June 6, 2012 / 31 comments

If Yoga Culture Were B-Boy Culture

If popular yoga culture were B-Boy culture (later dubbed “break-dancing” by the media), than this video would represent where we are at currently in the celebrified abyss that is contemporary commercial yoga. Simply replace “break-dancing” and “break-dancers” with “yoga” and

/ June 4, 2012 / 13 comments

If Yoga Culture Were B-Boy Culture

If popular yoga culture were B-Boy culture (later dubbed “break-dancing” by the media), than this video would represent where we are at currently in the celebrified abyss that is contemporary commercial yoga. Simply replace “break-dancing” and “break-dancers” with “yoga” and

/ June 4, 2012 / 13 comments

/ Culture, Teachers

Two NYC Yoga Instructors Step on Hindu Murti /// WTF Do Major Yoga Studios Teach?

“[F]eet hold a powerful symbolism with Hindu culture. You take off your shoes when you enter a temple. When sitting you never point your feet towards people, especially seniors, and you never spread your feet before an altar or towards

/ May 21, 2012 / 55 comments

/ Culture, Teachers

Two NYC Yoga Instructors Step on Hindu Murti /// WTF Do Major Yoga Studios Teach?

“[F]eet hold a powerful symbolism with Hindu culture. You take off your shoes when you enter a temple. When sitting you never point your feet towards people, especially seniors, and you never spread your feet before an altar or towards

/ May 21, 2012 / 55 comments

Want Friends? Do Fantastic Asana /// Posture as Poseuring

Picking up on yesterday’s post, (and YD and BB‘s previous bits), we come to the phenomenon known as “yoga posing.” We’ve all seen it: that photo gallery on some yoga practitioner’s website demonstrating asanas that supposedly represent dedicated practice (when

/ May 15, 2012 / 36 comments

Want Friends? Do Fantastic Asana /// Posture as Poseuring

Picking up on yesterday’s post, (and YD and BB‘s previous bits), we come to the phenomenon known as “yoga posing.” We’ve all seen it: that photo gallery on some yoga practitioner’s website demonstrating asanas that supposedly represent dedicated practice (when

/ May 15, 2012 / 36 comments

Doesn’t “Rockstar Yogi” Just Mean “Douchebag Yogi?” /// Punk Wins Again!

[WARNING: This post contains video footage of punk awesomeness. We recommend you watch each clip in the order presented, and not just skip it all. For many of you this will be completely new territory. Get some headphones, take a

/ May 14, 2012 / 23 comments