215: Where Are All the Guys in Yoga?
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Many yoga teachers will tell you that their class is for everyone - all sizes, ages, backgrounds, and genders - and yet the actual students that turn up to class tell a different story. They tend to be a very similar group of people. In most parts of the world, women represent 70-90% of the yoga communities, and this puts off some men from staring, and it's frustrating to some men who love the practice.
Where are all the guys in yoga?
In this week's Yoga Talk Show we address the somewhat controversial topic of gender and fitness preferences.
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About the Guest
Dean Pohlman founded Man Flow Yoga in college in order to promote yoga with guys. After experiencing huge benefits himself from yoga, he wanted to make the practice more accessible to men, athletes, and physical fitness-minded individuals. Dean took out the Sanskrit and the meditation and inserted terminology that is familiar to people with sports backgrounds. Instead of focusing on the more spiritual side of yoga, he focuses entirely on the physical aspects.
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Listen & Learn:
- How masculine people often prefer solo practice and feminine people often prefer group classes
- Why removing religious and spiritual undertones from yoga classes might be the best way to show respect for diversity
- How athletes can benefit from yoga and how yoga students can benefit from athleticism
- Why the future of yoga needs to be more inclusive
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| 1:22.6 | masculine, feminine, night and day, |
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| 1:28.3 | We have these dichotomies all over the place, |
| 1:30.0 | these polar opposite energies, and we see these in traditional mind body symbolism like yet it's very common that we will lump both |
| 1:46.0 | masculine and feminine people and practices together and there's an argument to be made that there is a time and a place where it might make sense for men and women to practice, to exercise, to do fitness in a different way. |
| 1:59.0 | That's not always the case, and that's not always the case for everybody but I think it's an |
| 2:03.1 | interesting topic to explore I've certainly found that as a masculine oriented |
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