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    The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga

    Hypnosex Is the New Fallback Career

    Pay $100 an Hour for an Ex-Stripper to 'Hypnotize' You
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    04/15/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Oh, no, peeing in yoga class is bad? But I bring my own mat!
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    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    I once got groped at a pretty popular ashram in upstate New York. Or did I? I was barely a teen and couldn't quite tell.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    It's a long and proud tradition, going back centuries, to the Beatles and that ashram on Ceylon or somewhere, and they left in disgust because the Maharishi kept hitting on Marianne Faithfull.
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    Image of sparklyharempants sparklyharempants
    04/14/09

    @Tremonius: Yes, and I used to think that too, but it's not frowned upon guru behaviour in India.
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    04/14/09

    @sparklylegwarmers: The sleeping with followers part. I don't think this guy is in the same league.
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    Image of reggattagirl reggattagirl
    04/14/09

    @sparklylegwarmers:


    That was Mia Farrow, she wrote about it in her memoir.

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    04/15/09

    @reggattagirl: Must've been her, then ... unless it's possible the documentary I saw one year is correct and the Mahareshi actually hit upon two, count 'em, two, tourists! Maybe more!


    But, if in the sixties, I was to choose just one, I'd take Marianne.

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    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    When contacted this morning, Mike-an instructor at the yoga center, who did not give his last name-says he was not aware of the October incident, but did offer up a new age explanation for what happened: "Anybody can have the truth to their perspective. We just promote health happiness and peace in a way that allows people to heal their bodies. Sometimes those feelings can be strong," Mike says. "Until you actually get into water, if you've never been in water, it's a new experience. You have to be open to that experience."


    What, you're physically incapapble of not just saying "no comment, speak with my lawyer"?

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    Image of applejuice applejuice
    04/14/09

    @Ipomoea: Mike has totally got to be the hypnotist molestor. He's going with the "there are so many truth's man, your truth and my truth might not be the same...." defense.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Personally, I prefer old-timey calisthenics.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    You put the nasty in Namaste.                    
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/14/09

    @iplaudius: If i told you you could put the nasty in me, would that make me sound cheap?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    04/15/09

    @Hydroceph: Now that’s couples-yoga I can get behind!
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/15/09

    @iplaudius: Hmmm, downward facing doggie-style!
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Click clack

    paddy whack

    Downward dog

    my bone...
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    Image of mathnet mathnet
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Namaste, motherfucker.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    04/14/09

    @mathnet: And Om Shanti to you as well, my friend.
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    Image of cupie cupie
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    I've been practicing yoga since I was 4 years old and from the very first day, my father taught that one of the basic tenets of practicing is to learn how to let go of the ego mind. Most modern day instructors seem to be teaching the opposite..while taking their own to a higher level.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    04/14/09

    @cupie: My parents, on the other hand, taught me never to "leggo my eggo"
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    04/14/09

    @m4ximusprim3:

    OMG.....THAT deserves a commie! Do they still issue those here? Effing brilliant, m4ximusprim3.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    I'm passing out.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    The yoga instructor didn't receive a kick in the face for his efforts?
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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Why does Seattle seem to have such a high number of creepies per capita?
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    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    04/14/09

    @forwardmotion: It's been hypothesized that there's so many serial killers and weirdoes here because it's fairly isolated from the rest of the lower 48, there's a high occurrence of SAD, and we're all such introverted passive-aggressive idiots that we aren't willing to call others on being creeps.
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    Image of saintjim saintjim
    04/14/09

    @forwardmotion: I drove across Washington state a few years back, from Spokane to Seattle. Every few hours it would start to rain, and we'd see another abandoned lumber mill (the eastern Washington economy is pretty bleak), and for the first time I understood grunge music.


    "This it it!" I told my travel companion. "This is why they all go crazy!"

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    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    04/14/09

    @saintjim: When driving through eastern Washington once, my father turned to me and said "if I still lived here, I'd do heroin."
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    I don't know what the big deal is. All the exercise video's I own all end in sex. The weight lifting one. . . the wrestling one. . . that particularly dirty one about jai alai. . .
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/14/09

    @contradicto: That's because of the "banana raquet," right?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    Instead of Yoga in public, can't we just get into Tantric sex in the privacy of our own homes?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/14/09

    In reply to The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga
    I am not into yoga.
    I am into champagne.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/14/09

    @BookishLookish: I'd be into yoga and champers with you. So long as it was the good stuff. And no Bikram yoga, either. I'm crazy, but not that crazy.
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    04/14/09

    @BookishLookish: Yeah, the stuff that happens when I'm drunk on champagne is better than getting hypnotized, groped, and peeing myself.


    ...well, not much better, I guess.

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