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Yoga gets dunked on a lot. Even more when you are a guy doing yoga. It is seen as a feminine and hippie kind of thing.

But that's a dumb way of thinking, of course.

Yoga is good for flexibility, training your balance, focussing on your breath and staying calm and it even trains strength. A daily yoga session of ten minutes can keep you stretched, flexible, and calm.

As I said, yoga for women is already pretty popular. I know multiple women who do yoga on a regular basis. Men, not so much. But I want to change that, and inspire men to step out of their comfort zone, break the patriarchic view of yoga and keep them fitter.

Who in here has experience with yoga already? Please share your tips and visions!

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[-] TheConquestOfBed@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Capitalists culturally appropriated a traditional religious practice into the fitness industry

Therefore Indians are culturally backward

Wut

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

What do you mean?

[-] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they’re just pointing out the absurdity and orientalism of suggesting that as yoga has been distorted and popularized in the West, Indians must be backward and not doing enough yoga, or at least not correctly (correct being the coopted version).

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