Yoga: Is it Just Fake, Watered-Down Bullsh*t for the Pseudo-Enlightened? | elephant journal
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“The time may have come for the skeptics and the doubters to take to the streets with megaphones and cry out to the masses, ‘You’re all being brainwashed! Stop spending your time and money on the LSD-inspired, empty promises of a long gone hippie generation!”
Hey bendy people, I’m honestly wondering what is going on around here… And this is what came out when I sat to write about it. Even though I love to throw out truisms while I teach, like “we’re not just moving around on the mat, ya’ll,” and “reach up toward the gods in Warrior 1,” one day it hit me: this all could be bullshit. Major. Shocking, I know.
Who’s with me? Read on…
Yoga: Is it Just Fake, Watered-Down Bullsh*t for the Pseudo-Enlightened?
Anne Clendening was born and raised in L.A. She's a yoga teacher, a writer and occasionally slings cocktails in a Hollywood bar. She could eat chocolate cake for every meal of the day. She has a huge fear of heights and flying. And fire. She wishes she could speak French, play her guitar better and make cannoli. She's probably listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon right now, kickin’ it with her boxer dog and her hot Australian husband ★
L.A. chick. Writer. Horror fan. Free Spirit. Child of the 70's.