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VoxPopuli
04/15/09

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Oh, no, peeing in yoga class is bad? But I bring my own mat!
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
04/14/09

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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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Tremonius
04/14/09

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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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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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sparklyharempants
04/14/09

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

@sparklylegwarmers:

That was Mia Farrow, she wrote about it in her memoir.
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Tremonius
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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Ipomoea
04/14/09

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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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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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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/14/09

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Personally, I prefer old-timey calisthenics.
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iplaudius
04/14/09

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You put the nasty in Namaste.
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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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iplaudius
04/15/09

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

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

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Click clack

paddy whack

Downward dog

my bone...
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mathnet
04/14/09

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Namaste, motherfucker.
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bjonston
04/14/09

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

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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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m4ximusprim3
04/14/09

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

@m4ximusprim3:

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

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I'm passing out.
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CaptainFantastic
04/14/09

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The yoga instructor didn't receive a kick in the face for his efforts?
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forwardmotion
04/14/09

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Why does Seattle seem to have such a high number of creepies per capita?
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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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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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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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contradicto
04/14/09

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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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BadUncle
04/14/09

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

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Instead of Yoga in public, can't we just get into Tantric sex in the privacy of our own homes?
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BookishLookish
04/14/09

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I am not into yoga.
I am into champagne.
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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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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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