Does yoga sculpt count as 'real' yoga? We chatted with four yoga teachers to get their perspective. Here's what they had to say.
" session that involved so many push-ups that I wasn't sure I'd be able to roll out of bed properly the next day, I rushed off to lunch with a friend, still sweaty despite a post-workout shower. I knew she'd ask what type of exercise I'd just done, and I struggled with whether I'd tell her the truth that I'd just taken a yoga class that involved weights and bursts of cardio.
"Why is your face so red?" She asked."Did you just go for a run?" No, I admitted sheepishly, then came clean:"I did...well...I was at yoga sculpt." She sat back, her face awash in disappointment.Is there such a thing as “real” yoga? "Yoga is more than a physical practice—it's a way of living. And in introducing these other elements, people do think it waters that down," says yoga teacher."In some ways, I agree, but I also think if more people practiced yoga with its sense of grounding and peace, the better off we'd all be."
"It's not a bad thing to meet people where they are," she says."We don't want to strip yoga down to being only movement, but we also don't want people avoiding classes because they feel uncomfortable by the more philosophical or spiritual aspects they're seeing. There has to be a middle ground where we respect the different lineages of the practice, but also invite more people into it in a way that works for them.
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