Yikes – from the folks who do the “People of Walmart” – an entire site with pictures of “Girls in Yoga Pants.” It’s pretty offensive. They have, for example, a category called “Titty Tuesday.” Be forewarned, if you are a woman and you go to this site, you can expect to be pissed off. Yuck.
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Was anyone truly surprised when it came out recently that John Friend, founder of Anusara, is a bit of a playboy? Exploitation of female yogis has been a problem in yoga ever since it came to America, with charges of sexual impropriety and outright harassment against “gurus” such as Muktananda, Amrit Desai (who was kicked [...]
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As a follow up to my last post on Yoga Journal’s model search, I wanted to share an email I wrote to the woman who first alerted me to the contest with her “vote for me!” email. I had actually sent her the link to the blog post she inspired. She wrote back to say [...]
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Someone I don’t know just emailed me with the subject “Vote for me!” – upon opening this email, I was asked to vote for this person to become the next Yoga Journal “model.” UGH. This “talent” search is *everything* that is wrong about yoga today. So what do you see when you go to the [...]
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