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It's Time For Some Competition, Yoginis!

Yoga is a meditative practice sometimes thought to help liberate the soul from all worldly suffering. The Olympics are a tribalistic sporting event in which nation states battle to produce impressive feats of human athleticism. Bikram Choudhury—a man who teaches yoga in a speedo and a diamond-studded Rolex, guards his trademarked pose sequences like a Rottweiler on meth, and likes to compare his balls to “atom bombs”—says its high time to combine the two. “This,” Bikram’s wife tells the New York Times, “is our dream" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)

Yoganomics: How do yoga teachers make money?

In reporting a story for the New York Times Magazine about a yoga teacher who is going on food stamps, I started wondering about how the business of yoga is structured. There are few full-time teaching jobs, as far as I could tell, and almost no one I talked to was getting health insurance or other benefits. So, I wonder—what's the deal?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)

Yoga Gone to the Dogs

Hanna, I see your insane Martha Stewart interview and raise you this utterly ridiculous New York Times style article about doing yoga with your dog. I don't think I need to unpack the absurdity of paying to gently stretch with a canine (nor do I need to point out this definitely falls in the bogus trend story category), but I did heartily enjoy this comment from a dissatisfied Doga attempter:

"It was lunacy,” Ms. Apro recalled. “Peanuts, my retired racer greyhound, didn’t participate at all. Instead, I did downward-facing dog while he ate the most treats he’s ever had in a 60-minute period.”