Bring me your tired. Your tight. Your hungry for spiritual enlightenment. Your yearning to be lean. But bring your own sticky mat.
And don’t forget to show up fifteen minutes early. Welcome to yoga twenty-first century-style. The four thousand year old practice is hotter than Calcutta in July, though its original practitioners might not recognize it. Some accuse today’s gurus of being more adept at marketing than meditation. And with classes like “yoga for jocks” and “bootcamp yoga,” one wonders where the relaxation part comes in.
But it’s all the same to the masses of multi-tasking men and women who’ve found balance and, yes, a better butt, along the way to enlightenment. They’ve given up feeling the burn so they might feel something deeper. So why are you still doing aerobics?
(Hosted by Judy Swallow)
Guests:
Baron Baptiste, founder and director, Baptiste Power Yoga Institute, Cambridge, MA
Patricia Walden, co-founder, BKS Iyengar Yoga Center, Somerville, MA
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, spiritual head, Himalayan International Institute, Honesdale, PA
Elizabeth Wipff, creative yoga director, Crunch Fitness, New York City.