Another searing critique of the American yoga industry Overlooked, amid all the hoopla. Worth a read, especially if you think some 20-something at your corner studio is your private ticket to Nirvana. "[David] Regelin isn’t a yoga purist. He’s one of a growing number of people suggesting that amateur yogis may be doing more harm to their bodies than good. “Your body is like a Ferrari,” he explains. “You can’t just drive your Ferrari on any street. You can’t just park it anywhere. If you’re doing squats with one knee the wrong way,” he says, demonstrating in his chair, “you’re going to be walking upstairs one day and that knee’s going to blow out. And usually the people who do the flow classes for a long time break themselves.” To hear him tell it, New York’s top yogis are harboring secrets that rival Suzanne Somers’s liposuction scandal. “There’s been a lot of famous teachers who have had, you know, hip replacements and knee surgery,” he says knowledgeably. “But they’re not going to put that out there. If you’re the fast-food industry, you don’t say, ‘I’m obese, eat my food.’”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:18:08 +0000
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