Gawker: Yoga

Chimera Monkeys Are Coming for Your Baby

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:00:40 EST

Implant cancer! Brain melting! Autism vaccines! Big tumor! Drug users! Chimera monkeys! Face transplants! Yoga danger! And the future of your baby, made clear! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—but not for long! More »

Yoga and Vitamins: Worthless

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:53:26 EDT

I've got news for you: everything you're doing to keep yourself healthy is worthless. Well, by "you" I mean "people who do yoga and take vitamins and generally try to be healthy." I know you just sit around on the internet all day. The point is: it doesn't matter, because you're wasting your time either way. More »

Yoga Morons Pose All Over NYC Subway Car, Make Homeless 'Joke'

Lauri Apple — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:45:28 EDT

Yoga is a beautiful, ancient tradition that helpfully reduces stress and probably benefits your internal organs and soul and whatever else people are made out of. Unfortunately, Lululemonheads like these two have ruined it for the next several decades. More »

Russell Simmons Cannot Stop Being Nice to Bad People

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:20:59 EDT

Russell Simmons initially got famous by starting up Def Jam, a hip hop label that was, believe it or not, dynamic and countercultural. And cool! That was a long, long time ago. What is Russell up to today? Oh, just defending Fox News chief Roger Ailes (again): More »

Baby-Swinging Yoga Guru Breaks Down and Cries

Maureen O'Connor — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:34 EST

Russian baby-swinging yoga guru Lena Fokina—whose unconventional child-rearing terrorized YouTube earlier this year—recently went on high-profile Russian talk show Let Them Talk. Before a live studio audience, Lena Fokina swung a baby, endured half an hour of berate and ridicule, then burst into tears. More »

Yoga Is The New Golf And Everything Is Different Now

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:45:02 EST

Oh my god, it says here that yoga is the new golf! You have to do it with your bosses to move up the corporate ladder, and that's coming from a lady who "advises the 'top 0.5 percent' of companies worldwide!" Yoga's out of control—more! Nothing will ever be the same!

Yoga is the new golf.
Zumba is the new yoga.
Walking on your hands is the new Zumba.
Unicycling is the new walking on your hands.
Tricycling is new unicycling.
Skimboarding is the new tricycling.
Water polo is the new skimboarding.
Polo is the new water polo.
Golf is the new polo.
Yoga is the new golf.

You don't want to get embarrassed out there. More »

This Is Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Cat with You to Yoga

Matt Cherette — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:01:13 EST

If you like to do yoga to stay fit, or sane, or whatever, then you might want to take a lesson from this video: don't bring your cat with you, because—if you do—it just may scratch your crotch. More »

Baby-Swinging Yoga Is Real: Meet the Children Who Survived It

Maureen O'Connor — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:23:59 EST

Lena Fokina, the hardbodied Russian viral video star seen swinging babies here and here, is real. She teaches baby yoga for a living and raised two (seemingly) healthy daughters that way. And she just gave her first American interview! More »

This Baby-Swinging Yoga Video Can't Be Real, Right?

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:53:33 EST

The following video shows a Russian lady subjecting a squirming baby to "dynamic exercises" that involve swinging it by its arms and ankles, upside down and over her head. Oddly, there is precedent: Russian swinging baby videos are a meme. More »

Madonna's Airplane Yoga Enrages Fellow Passengers

Maureen O'Connor — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:08:59 EST

Airplanes are the worst places to meet celebrities. The cramped environment of an upholstered metal tube brings out the worst in every tantrum-throwing, assistant-berating diva. The only thing worse than a tantrum? Insufferable, yoga-enhanced calm! More »

Will Our Drunk Teen Parents Survive to See the Future?

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:02:02 EDT

Helmet brains! Weird veneers! Teen pregnancy! Teen car crashes! Impotent fish oil! Blue Collar Yoga! Banana machines! Alzheimer's ladies! Laser faces! It's your Thursday Health Watch, where we watch your health—and it only hurts a little bit! More »

Megachurch Pastor Reveals Yoga's Demonic Roots

Adrian Chen — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:46:00 EDT

A Kentucky megachurch pastor says of yoga: "Yoga is demonic. If you just sign up for a little yoga class, you're signing up for a little demon class." We also think Yoga is demonic, but probably for different reasons. (via.) More »

Fox and Friends Becomes Sexual When Discussing Parking Tickets

Kate Erskine — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:59:00 EDT

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Apparently, Massachusetts eases the blow of a parking ticket by providing instructions for yoga positions that will help the ticketed individual relax. Watch awkwardness ensue after Brian Kilmeade asks Gretchen Carlson if she can put her leg over her head! More »

At David Barton Gym, Everyone Wishes They Were Drunk

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:26:30 EDT

Drunk in the gym! Greedy-ass yoga! Ab assistance! Chocolate for your health! Pro athletes without athletics! And the Twitter diet, phase two! It's your Monday Fitness Watch, where we watch fitness—but not in that skeevy David Barton way! More »

Armed and Dangerous

Max Read — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:00:38 EDT

[Thousands of people gathered in Central Park today to do yoga with acclaimed yogi Elena Bower. God expressed his displeasure by causing a thunderstorm, which rained out the proceedings. Pic via AP.] More »

Posers

Brian Moylan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:30:00 EDT

[Throngs of yoga aficionados invaded Times Square today for an elaborate ritual that has something to do with the summer solstice. In related news, a woman named Rosemary is pregnant. Image via Getty] More »

Is Yoga Out of Control? (Yes)

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:05:02 EDT

Laughter yoga. Nazi yoga. Donation yoga with Dave Matthews playing in the background. Thank you, yoga. That's enough. More »

Yoga: It's Healthy, But Is it Holy?

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:28:28 EDT

Thalidomide and soda and Vitaminwater and Jesus H. Christ, the Christians are doing yoga. It's your daily health watch, where we watch your health—while sinning! More »

Yoga For Haiti (Updated)

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:08:42 EST

I guess several yoga mats could be combined into some sort of...nah, no idea. We've contacted the yoga studio for comment. Donate now, you selfish bastard. [via James Fallows] UPDATE: A nice lady from the yoga studio explains, below. More »

The Singular Delights of 'Foodie Yoga'

Adrian Chen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:18:19 EST

Normally, this post would have been written by Gawker night editor Adrian Chen. However, after reading this article on 'foodie yoga' he hung himself with his MacBook's power cord. Please welcome our guest columnist, foodie yoga enthusiast Samuel Lewis More »

Heidi Montag Performs Soft-Core Demerol-Yoga

Arianna Reiche — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:59:34 EST

Heidi Montag has now released this baffling video of the most lackluster yoga we've ever seen. It's probably supposed to be sexy, but seeing her downward dog just makes us nervous that her forehead will fall off or something. More »

On Today's Martha: It's OK to Fart in Yoga Class

Whitney Jefferson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:23:32 EST

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Today's Martha was all about Yoga and her experts got down to the important stuff: farting. Apparently, it's okay to do— but the real question is whether it's socially acceptable to laugh at those who can't hold it in! More »

Indie Rock Is Still Dead

John Cook — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:14:57 EDT

Somebody put on a yoga festival—a yoga festival—in Lake Tahoe, and indie staples Spoon, Broken Social Scene, and Jenny Lewis played. So did MC Yogi, who asked the crowd: "How many of you think Ganesh is fresh?" Why? More »

Funemployed All Becoming Yoga Hippies

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:41:38 EDT

As the ranks of America's idle funemployed swell, many are asking themselves, "Dude, what am I gonna do with myself?" Their answer, increasingly: "I am gonna have a yoga party all day every day, in exchange for room and board." More »

Josh Lucas Will Not Shut Up About Yoga

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:43:48 EDT

Josh Lucas—romcom star, nightlife regular, Matthew McConaughey admirer—seems like a nice guy, right? Well. As long as he's doing his yoga. When Josh Lucas stops doing his yoga...well, you wouldn't like Josh Lucas then. More »

The Seamy Underbelly of Couples Yoga

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:15:13 EDT

Everybody, even Ashley Dupre, thinks yoga is so great that they even make their dogs do it and stuff, but what about when the yoga instructor hypnotizes and molests your girlfriend in class? Oh it happens. More »

Russell Simmons Still Knows How to Work It

cityfile — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:37:00 EDT

You didn't expect Russell Simmons to be counseling Ashley Dupre out of the kindness of his heart, did you? The pieces are beginning to come together: Dupre's heartfelt account of her new mentor and yoga master today just so happens to have coincided with Dupre's debut as a blogger on Simmons' news aggregation website GlobalGrind.com. And it's not just Ashley sharing her story on the site. Russell is now blogging about meeting Dupre for the first time, too—his piece is entitled "Meeting Miss Ashley"—and both articles are currently the featured stories on the site's homepage. For the past year, Hollywood studios, record labels, fashion brands, and adult movie companies have been running around in circles looking for ways to cash in on Dupre's infamy. But it looks like Russell is going to walk away with the PR victory. More »

Diane von Furstenberg: Yoga Fan, Cell Phone Addict

cityfile — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:16:00 EST

Obama, Biden At Stimulus Signing/Hippie Be-In: "Namaste"

Pareene — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:39:49 EST

Obama chose the perfect face for his "signing the stimulus" party: a blonde, clean-cut young yuppie fellow who owns a small business. A small hippie business. More »

Martha, Master Yogi

cityfile — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:43:00 EDT

When Fortune asked Martha Stewart to give a presentation at its "Most Powerful Women Summit" last weekend, the mag probably assumed she'd instruct the group on how to prepare the perfect rhubarb pie. Instead, Martha went all new-agey and decided what everyone really needed was to learn how to do a proper downward dog. (How fitting for these stressful economic times!) The only disappointment: While Martha did get to hang out Warren Buffet at the event, it does not appear she was able to convince him to step on to a yoga mat. [The Martha Blog] More »

Sienna Miller Takes Her Yoga Class To The Next Level

Douglas Reinhardt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Stretchy WSJ. Editor Writing Bitchy Magazine Book

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:39:27 EDT

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Where does the Wall Street Journal's Tina Gaudoin find the time for her hectic trans-Atlantic lifestyle? She'll tell you, in book form! Gaudoin, the yoga mogul who edits the business paper's new glossy weekend magazine, somehow found time to write an autobiographical book about "the ins and outs of the most glamorous and bitchy of industries" (magazines!). After the jump, the semi-grammatical Amazon summary of Gaudoin's Not Just Prada: Real Life Adventures in Magazines (Paperback) [sic]: More »

Karan's Kauses: Yoga, Tibet and Kabbalah

cityfile — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:42:00 EDT

Donna Karan no longer controls the company that bears her name: LVMH purchased the company in 2001 for $643 million, leaving her with an estimated $400 million fortune. She remains the company's creative director, of course, but she also keeps busy with philanthropic work. Last year the Queens-born designer shelled out $2.7 to various causes, including the $1 million to the Spirituality for Kids Foundation, which teaches Kabbalah to kids in schools. (Naturally, Madonna's also a big donor.) A fan of all sorts of new-age fads (she's expressed her fondness for "therapeutic screaming" and past life regressions in the past), Karan also has a soft spot for Tibet. Her Karan Weiss Foundation (which reflects the name of her late husband) contributed $200,000 to The Norbulingka Institute, which is dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture, and $20,000 to the International Tibetan Medical Association. The entire list—including her token $1,000 contribution to Bill Clinton's Global Initiative and the $59,000 she gave to pal Russell Simmons' foundation—after the jump. More »

WSJ Secretly Quotes Editor's Own Employee In Page One Yoga Story

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:20:27 EDT

It seemed strange that the Wall Street Journal—so concerned about beating the competition in hard news—would choose for a Page One story today a piece on business people who do yoga. Really, WSJ? It's a pretty standard, low-hanging "take a trend, and add business angle" story that might have more rightly been in the back pages. But their work had this added benefit: a WSJ editor owns her own yoga studio, and one of her employees gives great on-the-money quotes: More »

How Yoga Made Russell Fall for Porschla, Barack Obama

cityfile — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:14:00 EDT

Last week Russell Simmons was in the news after his divorce settlement with Kimora Lee Simmons was made public. Simmons didn't comment on the settlement, which revealed that Kimora is getting sole custody of their kids and Russell will have to cough up half a million dollars a year in child support, but today he offers up the heartwarming tale of how he met his current girlfriend, 25-year-old model-turned-yoga instructor Porschla Coleman: More »

Yoga Hippies Want Your House

ian spiegelman — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:13:30 EDT

Do you have a spacious home in NYC or Greenwich, CT? Why not share it free of charge with a married couple in their thirties from Sept. '08 through March '09 while they complete their masters in "Conscious Evolution"? Still not sold? "We are looking for a live-in or house-sitting opportunity in the NYC area while we complete our Masters Degree in Conscious Evolution. We’ll care for your home while you are away, or we can live with you, in which case we’d be happy to share our fitness and coaching expertise. Beth and Alex are a married 30-something couple contributing as professional fitness/yoga/health/life coaches dedicated to raising awareness through movement, exercise, holistic health and relationships." Get to know your lovable new gurus a little better after the jump. More »

Already all burnt out on your Christoga...

Emily Gould — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:50:58 EDT

Already all burnt out on your Christoga DVD? Newly Netflixable today is "Yoga For Indie Rockers," featuring an instructor named "Chaos" and "songs from Kevin Devine, Paulson, Jet Lag Gemini, Roses Are Red, the Bruises, Two Lone Swordsmen, House of Fools, Dillinger Escape Plan, Crash Romeo and many others." [Netflix via Lindsayism] More »

Yoga drama in Carroll Gardens! Three charismatic...

Emily Gould — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:35:49 EDT

Yoga drama in Carroll Gardens! Three charismatic teachers left Area—the spa and children's clothing store and toy store and yoga wear and yoga studio South Brooklyn monopoly—simultaneously to start their own studio, leaving a "nasty taste" in Area owner Loretta Gendville's mouth. But maybe she should take a page from of one of her ex-employees' books and be more, you know, yogic about the whole thing: "New York is a great laboratory—when the guy on the subway won't move, how do you make that a yogic moment, instead of flipping him off?" [NYO] More »

The zombie plague that a great sage once...

Emily Gould — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:00:47 EDT

The zombie plague that a great sage once predicted descended on Williamsburg yesterday, but all they did was practice yoga. It was a promotional stunt for a book called The Zen of Zombie, it turns out. Best quote from the Metro article about the stunt: "I guess someone has to make the videos that go up on YouTube." [Metro] More »

Yoga Now Available With Extra Jesus

Emily Gould — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:20:33 EDT