Yoga in the 90s: The Wild, Weird & Wonderful Early Days

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you practiced yoga in the 90s, you know… it was different.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro & why we’re talking about 90s yoga

04:03 Andrea’s first yoga class (and the clown car moment)

11:54 Jason’s first yoga class in college

25:11 Quirky studios, circus neighbors & wild props

31:26 What’s changed for better and worse

Before it was in every gym, before online classes, before Lululemon — yoga in the U.S. was a quirky subculture you had to seek out. In this episode of Yoga-ish, we share our funniest, weirdest, and most heartfelt memories from our early years of practice:

• Renting rooms in funky parts of town with circus performers as neighbors

• The original paper-thin blue and green mats that never got cleaned

• Heavy wooden props that could double as furniture

• Our first teachers — from deeply traditional to delightfully eccentric

• How yoga felt before it became mainstream, and what’s changed (for better and worse)

Whether you started in the 70s, 90s, or just last week, this is a love letter to yoga’s evolution — and a celebration of its wonderfully weird past.

💬 Your turn: Were you practicing yoga in the 90s (or earlier)? Share your best memory here or on Instagram (and tag us) -- we'd love to hear them!

📌 Resources & Trainings Mentioned:

ABOUT JASON CRANDELL AND HIS ONLINE YOGA TEACHER TRAININGS:

✅ Sequencing 2.0: Move Beyond Drop-in Classes

https://www.mission-e1.com/sequencing/

✅ 200hr Online Yoga Teacher Training:

https://learn.jasonyoga.com/200

✅ Considering YTT? Check out our honest guide, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About YTT here: https://jasonyoga.com/yoga-teacher-training

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Before we get started with today's episode, I wanted to let you know about two events that Jason's got coming up.
0:05.9	The first is his 200-hour online yoga teacher training, and the live calls begin for that training in January.
0:13.1	But you can sign up now and get the early bird enrollment price for $300 off.
0:19.8	When you sign up, you get immediate access to all of the lectures,
0:24.2	hundreds of hours of content, the reading list, the manual, you can dive right in and get started.
0:30.6	Oh, classes. There's all of the practices that he provides. And then when the live calls begin,
0:35.9	you will already have a leg up. So to learn all about that
0:40.3	and to enroll, you can go to jasonjoga.com slash 200. And the second event is a live event that Jason
0:47.8	is doing a five-day immersion in London at Mission Studio. And that will be October 6th through 10th of this year. Jump on the enrollment
0:57.8	for that. If you haven't already, I wish I was going. I always wish I was going to London,
1:02.3	hopefully next time. The immersion topic this time is sequencing 2.0. So if you are looking to be
1:09.6	more organized and strategic about your flows, if you want to bring more
1:15.6	functionality to your sequencing, if you feel like you need a framework where you can have
1:22.8	structure, but also your own innate personal sense of creativity, This is a great immersion for you. You can
1:31.6	learn more about that immersion and enroll by going to jasonyoga.com slash London 2025.
1:41.6	All right. Enjoy today's episode.
1:45.4	Hey, everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti. And I'm Jason Crandall. Welcome to Yoga-ish.
1:50.4	We keep having a special guest, Ginger Rose Crandall, a little something for those of you that are watching this on the YouTube channel.
2:07.5	Every time we come in here, she just wants to be in a lap.
2:11.9	She needs a producing credit.
2:13.8	She wants it to be really obvious that she's contributing.
2:16.7	She wants an acting credit.
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