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Friday Frivolity - Yoga and the Modern Mother
The tendency of suburban mothers to partake regularly in
yoga classes has been noted by marketers, scoffed at by some, defended by others, and by most
accounts become a fixture of the suburban motherhood experience, much like
taking up tennis, taking on home renovations, or subjecting oneself to hours
at a hockey rink/indoor pool/soccer field for the sake of youth sports.
So, when the New York Times published an article describing the tantric sex cult origins of yoga, and claiming that unknowing practitioners might become victims of "libidinal surprise," those of us who haven’t
done a downward-facing dog in years had to wonder, Wow,
maybe all those other mothers trotting about in yoga pants are on to something. Then again, maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re just too tired or too late to put on some actual pants. After all, no one has documented what percentage of people wearing yoga pants actually participate in yoga.
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