Don’t Get It Twisted At The Yoga Competition
Posted by: Susannah Breslin
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8:00AM, Wednesday October 28th 2009
NYMag.com sent a fearless reporter into the heart of yoga cutthroatism at the seventh annual Yoga Asana Competition in New York City. More than a few of The Frisky ladies are yoga devotees. Speaking for myself, I can’t do anything like what these people are doing here—or, like, I can do it, but not as good as they do it. Either way, I sure can’t put my feet behind my head—that is, not yet. Probably, if I could, I’d get more dates. Anyway, I dig yoga, but Amelia and I agree this looks an awful lot like a bodybuilding competition or a beauty pageant—only more pretzel-ific. [NYMag.com]
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raqueleza
wrote on October 28 2009 @ 07:14 am: [report]
Doesn’t the idea of competition sort of miss the point of yoga?
twinkles
wrote on October 28 2009 @ 11:40 am: [report]
Yea, the concept of someone being the “best” at yoga just doesn’t make any sense.
Ginger
wrote on October 28 2009 @ 11:38 pm: [report]
We were talking about this while doing yoga in one of my classes last week. The teacher (who is insanely in touch with his body and what it is capable of and, thus, good at yoga) said that he’d never compete in one of these (even though, in our area, he would so win) because yoga is about everything that isn’t about competition.