Yin Needs To Bring Something New To The Table

Cue some early Alanis Morissette, it's time to get angry... 

So first we had Bikram yoga. 

26 Hatha poses sequenced in a particular order in a heated room (to simulate doing the poses in Mysore). 

Well ,the heating was new to Westerners...and it allowed us to go deeper. So at least Bikram brought something new to the table.

Of course, to teach his method, you had to go to special (read: really expensive) training. Even though as a teacher, you may have been teaching those same poses for years. 

Hey, everybody has to make a living.

Yogaglo - the popular online yoga classes - patented the camera view of their classes (I kid you not!). 

The patent is in the US, Australia and god knows where else. But hey, it is a good view, so they brought something new to the table.

You should be seeing a pattern emerging.

Now we have yin yoga.

This is the same old restorative poses that we all know, held for long holds, like in restorative.

...but to differentiate this style, the poses have Chinese names (sleeping swan for pigeon, or something like that. Whatever).

Now, I'm sorry, but re-badging old restorative poses with Chinese names, ISN'T bringing anything new to the table.

If you are going to profit from the yoga craze (which we are all for)...AT LEAST BRING SOMETHING NEW TO THE FREAKIN' TABLE.

Ok, rant over. Cue John Butler. Peace out, J

BTW - There are still some Midori Yoga teacher training spots open.

Midori is even slower and cooler than yin.

It has fewer poses, that we hold for twice as long.

The training will be in an authentic, rain-forest environment, using recycled trees.

Places are filling fast.

$10,000 non-refundable deposit on application.

Midori: truly green yoga.