RE: the body's a pesky, unwanted thing

I'm at loathe to think about comparisons between yoga and Hive but it's kinda a good one in a way.

People used to love Bikram because it was so intense and would get results. A gateway drug to higher yoga for many as well. But then the owners of that studio, when Bikram was found out to be the dick he was, turned their studio into a franchise that sold hot yoga, HiiT and reformer pilates. They've done very well for themselves.

I miss the good studios we used to have a plethora of here. Died with COVID. Perhaps our attention spans, our wallets, our time. Amd yea, how we sell yoga. It's a hustle... All of that was why I couldn't be a yoga teacher. It also got diluted by every yogi and yogini and his dog selling 200 TT and churning out tons of yoga teachers with little experience at truly leading people into their truest state of flow. I include myself in that, no offence, though had in persisted and practiced
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I also wonder if the charm of yoga got diluted by the image of it, all those celebrity yoginis, the celebrity Instagram rocking a dancers pose against a Bali sunset. The lie doing more harm than good. Pitching it to one good looking body type rather than an every body type. And then to go to a yoga class and find you have someone inexperienced, and just not good at teaching, like that women I went to and am so reluctant to go to again, and just feeling sore or more stressed at the end of class. Again, not saying that's you, at all. I would love to do one of your classes.