Detoxification: The New Year’s Flim Flam
I have an entire chapter in the yoga book called "Did That Bitch Just Fart?" I outline the scientific research that calls bullshit on claims yoga will detox anything except a shitty fucking attitude. It shouldn't be a wonder that I'm calling out the detox zeal that surrounds the passing of the 365th day.
For Those Who’d Like The Flexibility To Reach To Scratch
Meeting some friends at a local joint, I arrived early and ordered a margarita. The waiter, an imposing figure of six-foot-plus with a smooth bald head, gave me a wink and a friendly smile. As the place sat empty, we chatted a bit. Think Mr. Clean without the gold hoop. Somehow yoga and flexibility popped into the conversation . . . Imagine that. This guy pushed two hundred fifty pounds of trim and fit so when he mentioned his first yoga class I grinned.
Take Your BMI And SHOVE IT
The BMI was invented by a Belgian scientist around 1830 in a pseudoscience he called, “social physics” to determine the ratio of the measurement of the human body. Because if it’s a good enough measurement tool for planets, why not use it on humans? WTF?! It was widely adopted in practice in 1972 without any modification or efficacy study despite being considered “inappropriate for individual evaluation.” And then, in a fuckwad move the NIH and CDC LOWERED overweight cut-off guidelines in 1998 effectively redefining almost 29 million people considered previously healthy as overweight. Bastards. So now, a 150-year-old pseudoscientific measurement never studied for validity has been adopted by the NIH,…
Can’t You Teach More Yoga
Oh my loves, I do appreciate your love of my classes. Every time someone says, “If you added a class at such and such time, it would be perfect” I glow with warm fuzzies. And then I quickly crush your dreams. “I can’t teach all of the yoga.” It’s the same with Cycle or Fit Fun Flex. I’m a control freak. I’m in recovery. Believe me, there are times when I attend a yoga class and I’m grinding my teeth over some thing the instructor is cueing. I have agreed to cover too many fitness classes in a week with the idea that I’ll get to evangelize people with my brand…