# Baby yoga, my ass! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385 "2011-01-20T21:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/1 "2011-01-20T21:55:02Z")
I cannot watch more than the first minute or so of [this video](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/20/baby-yoga-the-internets-latest-petrifying-craze/?iid=moreonnf), it creeps me out so much. That infant’s neck could snap in an instant! Someone either tell me that this is really safe and OK, or join me in my horror. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/2 "2011-01-20T22:57:56Z")
:eek: Damn, woman, it’s a baby, not a pizza crust! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/3 "2011-01-20T23:06:08Z")
Jesus Christ, how are that infant’s shoulders not dislocated?! I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it does do nice things for the developing brain, nervous system, proprioception, etc. But I’d like to see a lot more truck support here! …And, I gotta be honest, the baby seems not to mind. To like it, even. Weird. I think I prefer my charges to have a little more fear of gravity instilled in them. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/4 "2011-01-20T23:12:45Z")
Hmm… Kitty kitty kitty, here kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/5 "2011-01-20T23:53:04Z")
funny, she didn’t look pregnant in the video where she was tossing the puppies in the river. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/6 "2011-01-21T00:02:21Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Jesus Christ, how are that infant’s shoulders not dislocated?! > > I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it does do nice things for the developing brain, nervous system, proprioception, etc. But I’d like to see a lot more truck support here! > > …And, I gotta be honest, the baby seems not to mind. To like it, even. Weird. I think I prefer my charges to have a little more fear of gravity instilled in them. There’s a music soundtrack over that video to cover the screams of the infant. Of course the shoulders were dislocated, unless they started that way. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/7 "2011-01-21T00:11:06Z")
My God that’s horrible. I can’t imagine letting her hold a baby, let alone twirl it around like a prop from Cirque du Soleil. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/8 "2011-01-21T00:31:20Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There’s a music soundtrack over that video to cover the screams of the infant. Of course the shoulders were dislocated, unless they started that way. LOL. Nah, the kid’s relaxed. No rigidity in the arms or legs, and no crying or back arching when it’s over (yes, I actually did watch it all the way to the end). I do have some suspicions that parts of it may have been a doll, but heck, people have done weirder things with their babies. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/9 "2011-01-21T00:40:38Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > LOL. Nah, the kid’s relaxed. No rigidity in the arms or legs, and no crying or back arching when it’s over (yes, I actually did watch it all the way to the end). Paralysis after the spine shattered. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/10 "2011-01-21T00:41:20Z")
I read this topic as “Baba Yaga, my ass!” and was all ready to have a discussion of slavic witches and posteriors. I’m sorely disappointed ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/11 "2011-01-21T00:42:36Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I read this topic as “Baba Yaga, my ass!” and was all ready to have a discussion of slavic witches and posteriors. I’m sorely disappointed Well, hell, now I am, too. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/12 "2011-01-21T00:43:14Z")
It kind of looks like a baby Yoda. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/13 "2011-01-21T00:57:46Z")
Well, I know what tops the list of things I’m NOT going to be doing with Junior. How can this not cause shaken baby syndrome? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/14 "2011-01-21T01:55:41Z")
That was disturbing to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/15 "2011-01-21T02:24:21Z")
Anyone else thinking of Maxwell the Geico piggy screaming weeeeeeeeee? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pseudocode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@Pseudocode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pseudocode)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/16 "2011-01-21T03:20:04Z")
I thought that it was going to be [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzvUKX-b-s). ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/17 "2011-01-21T04:56:57Z")
Holy frijoles! I watched the whole video, and it was unnerving as hell. The following thoughts occurred to me: - I would be unable to rescue that child. The woman would beat me to death with it. The baby would survive the beating. - this is not the first time she’s done this. In fact, she’s probably done this every single day since the kid was born. - babies are made out of super-advanced space age rubbery resilient stuff. Someone should get a patent on it. - that kid is going to be an insanely talented something when he grows up, or he will end up chopping pieces off himself and eating them. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/18 "2011-01-21T13:09:37Z")
That was a little disturbing. A few years ago, at the Palace of Auburn Hills, during the Pistons Half Time show, we saw a father and child/ren act where the Dad laid on his back (supported by something) and juggled his kids with his feet and tossed them into the air. It.was.freakingly.awesome. Best half time show I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/19 "2011-01-21T14:03:03Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > funny, she didn’t look pregnant in the video where she was tossing the puppies in the river. Nice shot! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385/20 "2011-01-21T14:21:22Z")
I am going straight to hell. I did a literal spit-take when I saw that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-yoga-my-ass/568385.md?page=2)