Kat, the type of yoga Colin was doing was "hot" yoga. Is that trendy bullshit?
Hot yoga is Bikram. It's the only type of yoga that has competitions. No. Seriously. Some people love it (For K it was the only type of yoga she did) and most of the rest of the yoga community is judgy about it (believe it or not). Ashtanga is SUPER challenging, but it totally comes from a yoga tradition that makes sense.
Bikram comes from a dude named Bikram. He has a big training center here.
I think so many people dislike Bikram because (1) it's a cheat. Practicing in a really hot room bypasses the need to let your body build heat on its own through exertion and people get a better "stretch" but not through their own work (2) the Bikram guy is sort of a tool (3) it's a series of 26 poses (like Ashtanga, it's the same set each time) (4) the teachers are mean. And by mean I mean non-encouraging, non-positive, just sort of assholish.
Again, this is all built on heresay from others so take it for what it's worth.
I'm at times tempted to try Bikram just to see, but why? I love Anusara (and yes, also made up by some random white dude, but he came out of the Iyengar tradition) enough that I'm not even really willing to take the Vinyasa classes at my studio.
I'm a yoga snob.
I do think it's a shame there don't seem to be pictures. I'm not sure Colin's all that bendy. Misha definitely is.
I think this is the pic I'll take to the salon: [link]
opinions?
I keep thinking of that Nip/Tuck where Misha plays a yoga instructor...
I think it's cute, msbelle, and will look great with your face shape.
I also think a short cut like that needs a standout color, assiduous trims, daily flatiron application and lots of product. FYI.
cute cut, msbelle
I realize I need to ask Kat sometime about the difference between Ashtanga, Anusara, and Vinyasa yoga. But not tonight. I should go to bed soon.
Egad. I have a kindergartener starting school tomorrow.
I keep thinking of that Nip/Tuck where Misha plays a yoga instructor...
Hey, while Manny Skerrit's particular situation was fictional, that yoga pose that made it theoretically possible wasn't a stunt double.
I feel today was fairly productive. I did laundry, went grocery shopping, cleaned my stovetop including the metal pans under the heating elements, squirted down my tub with bleach (will scrub in the a.m. when it's done its work), and pushed through to complete my racy Ben Browder illustration tonight.
Didn't get the artwork that I wanted to done but *did* get most of my loose office supplies into an undertable plastic drawer I bought.
I like the short cut, msbelle.
Bikram is also trademarked or copyrighted it's sequence of poses to prevent anyone from teaching it or opening a Bikram studio without the creator profiting.
In Berkeley I was all about the ashtanga yoga. Here the only studio I've enjoyed is a Bikram one because I found the owner to be encouraging and supportive of people in the room at every level. (In Berkeley, Bikram was the pick-up yoga place for singles and I wouldn't be caught dead there.) I can not tell you how many studios I tried around here when we moved - 15? 20? in various disciplines and there were teachers who ignored injuries, put on make-up and perfume right before they taught class, or used half the classes to tell us about their personal philosophy and/or spirituality. And classes here are much more expensive than in CA, so I ended up pissed off more often than not.
In short, I think that yoga and college have a lot in common in that you should choose classes by teacher and not by subject wherever possible.
