Comments on: Review of FitTV’s Namaste Yoga

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:19:27 +0000

Comments are closed. Please read the update in the post to find out why.

By: Trip Torn

Trip Torn — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:36:25 +0000

………….jealous and negative!……not good!………if people can find something to gripe about, they will. Should this show use unattractive women? The negative comments are destructive and come from insecurity. This show is inspiring and so well put together. It’s obviousley more than an instructional class. This is ART. ………HELLO!!

By: jri

jri — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:56:36 +0000

It is what it is. There is no shame in it, only acceptance and giving.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:49:34 +0000

Once again, another angry guy telling me that I must be unhappy because I’m calling this show out on its pandering to sex appeal. Nope, sorry, I’m not unhappy, nor am I overweight or unattractive. You can look at the photo in my bio if you need some proof of that. But even if I were overweight and unattractive, would that mean that I can’t have an opinion?

According to you, yoga teachers should only be skinny attractive women, and the opposite of that is “obese.” It is precisely this attitude that I am speaking out against in this entry.

The vitriol from men like you only prove that my point is necessary to make.

“It looks like to me the women that are on the show are very fit and attractive and hard working people that have spent years to learn yoga.”

Speaking as someone who has never had to go on a diet my entire life due to my high metabolism, I doubt very much these women had to work hard for their bodies whatsoever. In this sense, they are truly bad role models for those who need “inspiration,” because someone with a different body type and metabolism (never mind older age) will never look like these women.

I have worked with plenty of yoga teachers who were older, not super skinny (some even larger women with big frames who would never be thin no matter how much they worked out), and they were great yoga teachers.

It is absolutely a shame that yoga has become something where people expect the teachers to look like models. That is not what yoga is about.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:41:56 +0000

I think is a great show!!
There’s nothing worse then an amateur review by a keyboard worrier who has nothing better to do than sit behind her desk a badmouth others trying to there job.
Your probably an overweigh and a un-happy woman who gets off on tormenting hard working people because your sick of the life that you maid for yourself. You had said in one of you useless points that the narrators voice was like a “throaty whisper”or “ bedroom voice”, is it not the point of yoga to have you relax? What would you rather have a boot camp DI yelling at you through the TV screen? Another useless point you made was the Woman all have breast implants “fake boobs”, well from what I can see none of the 7 or so woman have had them so maybe you should look at the show instead of wishing you were more attractive. What is it that you’re proposing? Put actors in front of the camera that are obese that can’t inspire the viewers to try harder to improve them selves? It looks like to me the women that are on the show are very fit and attractive and hard working people that have spent years to learn yoga. There all probably all “multipara”. The last useless point you were trying to make was “soft porn”. What a joke you are. It looks to that the editor goes’s out of there way not to show any camera angle that comprising the actors or for the viewers. So in closing I find your review pointless and amateur at its best!!

Thank you Jeff C.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:31:59 +0000

“It is your handicap if all you see are objects to lust over.”

Dear 17-year-old female. You are a product of the 1990s and 2000s. You weren’t even born in the 1980s. So you don’t remember the days before Howard Stern, stripper chic, and Bratz dolls took over America. I do. And so I definitely see a trend towards making yoga into something “sexy” instead of something “spiritual.”

Unfortunately, a lot of young women your age are simply blinded to the ways in which women are objectified on a regular basis. I don’t personally see these women as objects to lust over (I’m a straight female, for one thing), but I’m not naive enough to think that they weren’t chosen mostly for their sex appeal.

Go read the comments above. Most of them defending this series are males, many of them young males. Some have even admitted to getting turned on by yoga teachers. This the audience for Namaste Yoga.

There is an absolutely frightening trend to turn yoga into something that is performed only by 20something “yoga babes.” Your darn right I’m going to speak out against that trend on my blog here.

I’m sorry that you are too young and naive to see it yet, but trust me…you’ll be old some day, and when that day happens, and you realize you no longer look like the young babes getting forced on you by the media, you’ll realize what it was I was speaking out against here.

By: alix

alix — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:13:54 +0000

i am a seventeen year old female, and i am shocked that all you got from Namaste Yoga was sex appeal and short shorts. i discovered the show last week, and i had never before practiced or had an interest in yoga. after watching the show, i did rewind my tivo, move the coffee table, and started trying it out for myself. i discovered this post after searching for DVDs of the show, because it has gotten me that interested. I enjoy the peaceful and beautiful scenery as well as the music and Potter’s calm instruction. Yes, the women are beautiful and have toned healthy bodies that they no doubt acquired practicing yoga for years. They are good at what they do, and i think it a fault of yours if all you see are tight buns in short shorts. Their bodies are beautiful, strong, and toned. It is your handicap if all you see are objects to lust over.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:44:28 +0000

I’ve run across your review of Kate Potter’s Namaste Yoga after doing a search for the DVD set. First of all, I’m a 22 year old male who was mildly active until about 2 years ago. In the show’s defense, I have to say that I would have never gotten into yoga with out seeing it. You’re right that most of the instructors are beautiful and the poses are rushed but that was perfect for me at the time I picked up doing the routines. I’ve since then picked up more poses and sequences from classes and friends here and there and now acroyoga with my chronic yoga buds. Now, not a day goes by that I don’t spend at least 40 minutes stretching and on most days doing sequences. I do owe Namaste Yoga for getting me interested in yoga in general.

I think that before you bash it so hard, maybe you should think about all the people out there who didn’t have any exposure to yoga and Namaste Yoga got them started. It sounds like you are an accomplished yoga “master” and to pick on a silly 20 minute yoga show is kind of like the big strong bully beating up the nerd with glasses in 4th grade. Well I was friends with that nerd in 4th grade and I don’t appreciate you talking like that about him.

Just my two cents.
Joshua

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:32:47 +0000

Stephanie, don’t be so fast to put down this series. I’m a guy, retired and at 61, I’ve become tired of daily weight and treadmill workouts at the local fitness center. They’ve become boring and usually leave me feeling wiped out the next day. I’ve been working out all my life. I’ve never in my life tried yoga until last week when I stumbled across Namaste Yoga on FitTV. I watched the show and tried my best to follow along. At the end of the show and for the rest of the day as well as the next day, I felt more energized and relaxed than I have in a long time. Most of all, my body has become much more flexible. I’m hooked on this show and have decided to switch from weight machines to yoga. Maybe this isn’t the best yoga series available, that’s why I’ve ordered a few recommended DVD’s of different yoga methods to try so I can decide what’s best for me. I’m also planning on taking a local yoga course to learn the basics. The bottom line, this series got me started to pursue a new, healthy pastime interest to replace the one that burned me out. Yoga is great! I googled for reviews of this series and found your article. Frankly, I’m glad I read through your review to get to some of the more positive comments at the bottom. Otherwise, I would have given this show the boot. Although I agree with a few of your comments regarding pacing and some of the moves being potentially dangerous to newbies, it’s really not fair that you spent the rest of the article with useless, negative diatribe of it being ‘all flash and no substance.’ ‘Soft porn?’ Oh puh-leeze! Hey, it’s television! Sadly, cosmetics is what gets viewers. I worked in the TV production business 34 years, I should know. I am grateful for discovering Namaste Yoga for rejuvenating my interest in maintaining a healthly lifestyle and I hope it does the same for others. If the show gets lazy people off their behinds to pursue good health, then it’s done its job!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:23:06 +0000

I love Namaste yoga on Fit TV. I do it about 5 days a week! I have bad dizziness that doctors aren’t sure of. They think it may be migraines or stress. The yoga stretching makes me feel really good and helps the dizziness. I am searching for the videos, but so far the places I’ve looked are all sold out. Just have to keep up w/ Fit TV!