Posts Tagged ‘yoga-community’

Yogis Eliminated from Amazing Race

I’m always interested in how yogis are portrayed on television because whether we like it or not, television has a huge impact on how the non-yogis in the world see the yoga community. It might only take one scene of a reality tv show that depicts a crazy, out-of-touch yogi to inhibit hundreds (thousands even?) of people from trying their first yoga class.

So I was really interested when a couple of married yoga teachers made their debut on the The Amazing Race on CBS. (OK, not interested enough to actually watch the premier, but I did follow up on the media coverage of it.) Unfortunately, the couple was eliminated right away before the show even really got started.

Do you think their short stint on the show portrayed the yoga community in a favorable way? Here are a couple of videos to help you make up your mind.

Or click here to watch them talk about their strategy for the show.

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/

Yoga for Equality

It’s not uncommon for people in the yoga community to gather up the troops and host a yoga fundraiser for a worthy cause. There are donation-based classes that support charities for all kinds–yoga in schools, funding for homeless shelters and animal shelters–you name it!

So it should not surprising that on June 27 Seattle yogis will gather at Cal Anderson Park and Playfield to practice together in the name of equality, according to SeattlePI.com. The yoga class is part of a larger event, StonewallForty, which commemorates the 40th anniversary of Stonewall — the 1969 confrontation that kicked off the nation’s gay rights movement. Event organizers hope that 1,000 yogis will donate $15, Equal Rights Washington and Lambda Legal.

Would you participate in an event like this? Do you think it’s a good idea for the yoga community to get involved with this controversial issue?

Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/