BTW, what is commonly referred to as ‘Yoga’ in Western parlance is actually Yogasana, or yogic *asanas *(postures). Yoga is a much broader system of thought, meditation and action.
Or wired.
It occurs to me they may all be judgmental bitches, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t deal with anyone except for the 1) receptionist who checks us in, 2)maybe the instructor, 3) the old man who shares the wall with me, and 4) another old lady who is a regular like me and likes to chat.
Everyone else could be horrible people. But I don’t interact with them or eavesdrop on their conversations in the dressing room. So I don’t really know them.
Maybe part of this is that they are competitive people involved in a non-competitive sport where there are few quantitative ways of describing achievement.
Using some of my “male” examples above for comparison:
- Triathletes can compare race times, the length of the events that they’re doing.
- Rock climbers can compare the difficulty ratings of their routes, brag about the exotic locales that they have visited, etc.
- Weight lifters can compare how much they can bench, how many hours they spend training, etc.
- Tae Kwon Do guys can compare belt colors, match results, etc.
Yoga is very popular right now, so these competitive types end up in yoga class and have to look for ways to “be better” than their peers. It seems to me that this type of thing is not so easy to do in that milieu. “So, you know 40 poses? I only know 30, but my form is better!” How do you quantify achievement, especially at the middle levels? The yoga bitches know they’re better than the noob and not as good as the instructor, but they have to jockey for position amongst themselves, so they turn to 'tude and $80 pants.
Interesting green bean.
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