Reply #3: Anyone interested in an overview of current yoga

[robdogbucky]

should rent the movie "Enlighten Up," by Kate Churchill.

It is not that great of a movie, it is just that it does feature some of the current charlatans in the yoga racket, as well as some of the best teachers in the world. Most notably one biker type guy that teaches his own unique brand of yoga, Dallas Page, that thinks all meditation sucks and mocks all eastern philosophy and religion. He recruits mostly skimpily clad babes to do his stretching class on his lawn in, guess......smoggy LA.

The movie follows one volunteer, a young journalist, who agrees to try all these different types of yoga and to travel around the world to interview many such teachers. Some of these, including B K S Iyengar and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois are really inspiring. The maker of it sucks though as she keeps interfering and it ends up being more a referendum on how she feels about yoga and she frequently tries to embarrass her volunteer. Nonetheless it includes more information about yoga than can be found in any one place elsewhere.

robdog sez check it out.


Just my dos centavos


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