Yogis everywhere losing their zen.

Yogis everywhere losing their zen. [TDB] The NYTimes published a piece this weekend titled "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body." Since then it's been the most shared article of the week and has naturally left yoga enthusiasts in a fury of anger. Today, the Daily Beast gives some Yoga instructors a voice. Now is your chance to hear their side of the story.
Yoga, which is now practiced by roughly 20 million Americans, has become a universe unto itself. “To write a piece that goes into such depth with anatomy, it can only instill fear: ‘Look, here’s all these big words, telling me I’m going to hurt my neck,’” he said. “That’s what’s unfortunate—students are going to start connecting their yoga practice to fear, and that’s not the mental state that’s conducive to yoga anyway. Nothing good comes from fear.”
And, in the wake of the Times piece, the yoga universe is roiled. It’s wobbling in its headstand. Since the article was published, Vitolo, who said he’s never witnessed the extreme injuries described in the Times, has taken to bringing it up before the start of every class so that he and his students “can have a conversation about it.”
“This article, in every class I walk into, is like an elephant in the room,” said Adam Vitolo, a yoga instructor at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York and at Pure Yoga Studio.
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