Although its origins are from India, one can find more yoga studios in white neighbourhoods such as Kitsilano or Orange County than in Kolkata. Participation in this activity requires large amounts of money and time, both of which white people have a lot of. Yoga is basically the practice of stretching for one hour. Stertching should only take five minutes, other peoples would rather spend the extra fifty five minutes playing in an actual sport or spending time with their families and friends.
Yoga is also an expensive activity. It gives white people the chance to showcase their $80 pants. The cost of four yoga classes is equal to the amount of money it would take to pay for uniforms and travel costs of an AAU Basketball team in the inner city. Lastly like other stuff that white people like, yoga feels exotic and foreign (ties into post #2 about eastern religions) and deep down in some way, white people feel that participation makes up for years of colonial rule in India.
Please note that opening up Yoga studios in Brampton or Surrey will yield little success
Stuff White People Like 
So true.
If it’s just stretching, why do you need so much specialized equipment?
this person knows his geography well. brampton would just not work!
My yoga outfit cost me 350 bucks
Well, I took some free Yoga classes at the Y (as part of my gym membership). Anywho, I didn’t spend extra money on Yoga clothes, just wore my old rags. I should at this point mention I live in Naperville, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago that started out as it’s own stand-alone city in the 1830’s due to the brick industry and Dupage River waterway access. Urban sprawling pressed so far west we are now a suburb. But I digress… I find that Yoga is a lot more than stretching. You use your body’s resistance and gravity to build strength (i.e. warrior pose and downward dog). Admittedly I am no expert on Yoga, but it is a great way to supplement a gym work out to get in shape. However, I have back problems and found it to painful and the classes were very crowded.
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Ugh, you got me again. The more different I think I am, the more typical I turn out to be. Now, excuse me while I take a stretching break from the computer… *bends into pretzel*
Yoga also makes your ass look damned good in its expensive yoga pants.
yoga makes you able to put your expensively panted legs behind your white ass head.
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don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
I’m white and I have never done Yoga. Am I fucking cool or what? Let’s hang out and NOT find our center, or whatever the heck those white people that aren’t as cool as me do.
lots of people do it because it’s trendy, and blow wads on stupid clothing, true. but if you knew jackshit about yoga you wouldn’t be so smug, it can actually be pretty incredible, on many levels. but that woudn’t fit into your self-hating need to feel superior all that neatly, now, would it?
Whitey likes taking “boot camp” classes at the gym because they are so lazy they can’t do anything on their own.
Is there anything more pathetic than a man doing an aerobics class? And I must say, he is almost always white.
Fitness trainers??????? White/white/white.
Us brown and black folk like to build up our muscles climbing fences and breaking into places, then we get superbuff in prison. I think I can get white people to pay for getting them into the right prison…..
i work for a non-profit and i approached a well known yoga clothing company in vancouver for a donation, since they claim to be oh so
caring about the environment and such … and they denied any donations, monetary or otherwise because they just don’t donate … yet they sell yoga pants for about $100 each?!
I actually wish exercising wasn’t considered sooo white maybe then the endemic obesity and associated heart disease in minority commuinites would be reduced
not really we just don’t like going outside and we like eating food that tastes good and has sugar, salt and a decent fat content. at least we’re happy and we have good family values.
A friend of mine gave my some weird yoga stuff and put me into various stretches and yoga positons… I must say it actually felt really good. but yeah, yoga class is for tools…
I hate yoga classes. Partner work with a stranger is so yucky. Yoga classes are too expensive and I also can’t afford to upgrade my “yoga wardrobe”. The classes I went to were always comprised of spoiled housewives. So I rent DVDs and tapes from my library. Now I can stretch for half an hour in the privacy of my own home, versus coughing up $80 – 100 per month. It really helps me to not be so tense and miserable. I find it helpful to recuperate after a day of mealy-mouthed, passive aggressive behavior (mine and others).
You are definitely Canadian, I’m guessing from Vancouver. Love the blog, I’m not white but I can relate to about half of them.
Took yoga classes at the YWCA when I was 16 years old.
I was able to fold my legs behind my head. It was pretty sweet.
Yuk! Only a white person would say, “Kolkata”, when they meant “Calcutta”.
why do white people do so many zany things?
Kill Whitey !
Why do numerous so-called intellectual egg heads believe that they can say “Yo, who’s in da house?” and be treated like royalty by every bloody person who isn’t a cracker?
you forgot to mention how the yoga class must be reminiscent of india, but not be not *too* ethnic. it must smell of incense, be decorated in earth tones, and be run a white teacher who can say a few obscure words in sanskrit – but anything more and it would just get weird.
I don’t do yoga. I just get laid a lot. That’s my yoga.
-Trout.
Actually, yoga is really cheap.
This whole posting sounds like someone is jealous of white people…. It’s ok though, we understand. I mean it must really hurt to think about the “accomplishments” of Africans, Asians, Hispanics and Arabs when compared to that of whites.
Anyone who’s taken a decent yoga class knows that it feels pretty damn good. My appreciation for eastern religions may be fed by my yoga class participation however what gets me there is an addiction to pleasure.
Wahahaha. Brampton.
Another thing white people like to do in yoga class (and not just the guys) is NOT wear deodorant and sweat to all hell a mere 2 inches away from you. Of course, wearing deodorant is anti-spiritual and goes against any good farmer’s market going organic buying, coffee drinking, spiritual white person.
Don’t get me started on how much space they like to take up even though they should be “sharing” it with others. After all, $80 pants deserve to spread out.
Being Indian, and having done Yoga in India (for about 50 rupees an hour or about $1/hr) I find it funny that all the white people spend upward of $100/hr to do what they call Yoga (i.e. glorified stretching). Real Yoga in India includes praying to God even. It’s also funny when all the white people I know assume I’m a master at yoga when all I do is go to the gym every other day, work out and am more fit then they are.
Yoga is just a self-gratiating way to feel superior. It’s like being catholic. Yours is the one true way to enlightenment! I’m a master of Eastern Religions, so I am superior in every way to all of you cretins, which is why Eastern Religions promote tolerance and patience.
Yoga is actually a spiritual discipline to link oneself with the Supreme God, it was never mere body stretching until it came to the west. It’s very interesting to see all these white people doing funny stretches and calling it yoga… They’ve been cheated by fake gurus who’ve come to the west to make money.
Of the three yoga instructors at my fitness club, one is white, one middle eastern, and one black.
The participants are mostly white, though. Come to think of it, the whole club is.
Not to be too white or anything, but I LOVE my yoga. I did make fun my freinds before I tried it . . . but since my first class I developed a deep respect for anyone willing to check it out. Try holding yourself in “downward dog” for more than 60 seconds-it hurts! I got in to yoga because I was severely depressed (another thing white folks can’t get enough of!) and had major anxiety issues. It really did help bring me back to center for at least that hour. And as far as cost goes, I was lucky to have classes offered at the university I attend. It works out to about $2 per class, thanks for all you folks who subsidize public education 🙂 And I don’t care what I look like when I am in class so I wear whatever comfy clothing I can find at Target (is that on the list???) The people who are showing off their expensive work out clothes aren’t really there to gain the full effect (personal opinion).
Jordan, the author of the post IS white. Dumbass. It’s ironic that you’re bashing the group who came up with the exercise/form of spirituality you imply feeling entitled to take part in. Oh, white supremacists. I’m sorry you received such a shoddy, narcissistic “education” and a selective version of history. It’s nice how you think that capitalizing off of other’s intellectual and physical labor via unearned privilege and violence is an “accomplishment”.
Many flakey people seem to take yoga its true, and man I can tell you the MALES in a yoga class are usually in the extreme flakey category for sure. I am a male and not flakey, I have taken yoga to be a better and less injured hockey player, surfer, etc… Just please spare me the relaxation and spirituality aspects, I’m there to enhance my athletics. I would suggest to people they try a more westernized yoga geared towards athletics, not spirituality.
btw, the women in these classes are HOT!! Flakey (“Oh, I don’t own a TV…”), but hot!!
This post above mine has got to be the biggest load of BS I’ve ever read.
“All those OTHER guys I’ve seen in the yoga classes I MYSELF HAVE TAKEN are ‘flaky’, but I am a manly man who loves me some some women!”
Then he goes on to explain how he does some fakey yoga adapted to his liking while the so-called “flakes” are doing real yoga. What a tool. No way is he white.
I pay $5 for my yoga class and have not purchased any special clothes or equipment (just wear shorts and a t-shirt). It is a real yoga class that includes chanting, sun salutations, and visualizations. It is the best thing I have ever done for my mind and body. No more back problems!
Yoga isn’t about your clothes, it’s about your practice, and you can practice in anything comfy.. and we barter with our yoga instructor for art, so it’s free. We are lucky!
I don’t care much who is doing it for what trendy reason, I just stay focused on what I put into and get out of my own practice.
Also, I think it’s sad for those who haven’t found something they connect to yet to criticize others who have. Live and let live!
I thought this was an American blog…How you guys managed to reference Brampton blows my mind! I’m from Brampton (Ontario, Canada) and when I read that I laughed out loud!
Great Blog…
Yoga rocks!!
Hahahah, back problems. I think that is something White people like to talk about. Chiropracting… and that is not yuppified, it’s more blue collar white people.
I like yoga I just don’t like some of the weirdness that goes along with it leave out the religion
@ 41 ellen:
“I like yoga I just don’t like some of the weirdness that goes along with it leave out the religion.”
It’s “spirituality”, remember? Whites aren’t religious, they’re spiritual. I say leave it IN. And I accuse those who want it out of starting a “War on Yoga.”
clearly someone who writes this blog lives in vancouver. you know what a kitsilano is! you know about ubc and it’s bounty of asian beauties! you know that opening a yoga studio is futile! ahh, a little piece of home.
You have obviously never been to the south.
although yoga in the united states is stereotypically a group activity in which people pay muchos dineros to participate, i know many people who incorporate yoga as well as meditation into daily health rituals. it is, in these cases, much less about the fad of doing yoga and more about the personalized experience each person gets with the practice. the wonderful thing about yoga is that it requires no equipment so it doesn’t limit itself to any socio-economic group or certain culture. love!
Those lululemon pants are REALLY popular here in Vancouver. Seriously, in Kits(short for Kitsilano), 12 out of every 10 women have some lululemon item of clothing, and are probably wearing it right now.
go Brampton!
FYI for the Americans, there’s a lot of immigrant Indians in Brampton. I’ve never met an immigrant who does yoga, the only (one) Indian I know who does it is a teacher.. and she’s first generation.
but I love the women in tight Lululemon/TNA yoga pants and spandex booty shorts.
*heh-heh, dirty old man laugh*
whatever race the author of this is, they are ignorant on yoga.
Wait… yoga doesn’t make up for colonialism?
This list seems more like its all stuff that other races specifically don’t like…thats kinda garbage
http://www.garbarrassing.com
for funny stuff that everyone likes…
In some etymologies, “yoga” means “union.” And that’s what yoga is about – union with a supreme being. It’s both spiritual (as an earlier commenter mocked) and religious. Most “traditional” forms of yoga are based on the Yoga Sutras and the Tantric philosophies. Practitioners use meditation techniques and pranayama (breathing) techniques as well as “stretching.”
But, yeah, like anything else, yoga can be distorted and bastardized by people looking to make a profit or be made into a prophet. Hence all the expensive classes, clothing, props, jewelry, etc.
The good news is, many yoga organizations are striving to return to a more fundamental offering of yoga, one that gives EVERYONE access to practicing yoga – on and off the mat.
Namaste.
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Being an Indian and knowing a bit about Yoga, I would like to say something. It is not a compulsion to buy exclusive attires to practice yoga. Yoga mainly deals with the mind and a bit on the body. In fact, the exercises or asanas are just a subdivision of the major Yoga tree. I think the interpretation of the original stuff has been amplified badly to a large extent.
I find it appalling that white people get access to ancient yoga techniques for free and make money selling unnecessary accoutrements..
I wish my people had some sort of copyright on this stuff, I am sure white folk would! —- Hence the love for lawyers!
Brampton shout out!
Holla!!
Oh, Brampton!
Thank you for that.
dude – yoga would fly in Port Kells, which is on the edge of Surrey closest to Ft. Langley. You are such a Canuck!
It’s really scary when brown people start doing things that white people like — like recyling.
First, this blog is comedy so anyone who does Yoga should not have they have to defend their practice. Yes, the stuff affluent white folks(mainly women. Throw some minorities here and there) do in expense clothes is an abstraction from a ancient spiritual discipline from India that only a few ascetics really practiced and involved a lot more than just stretching.(modern wo/man has not time for such demanding and costly adjuncts) This happens all the time. ITs not really all that much of an exoticification because people aren’t doing because its from “India” but because they really believe it will make them healthier. Whether this is true or not, I doubt many of us are expert enough on the human body and the techniques of Yoga to make an informed judgment. So lets leave our more vapid opinions at the boot-up screen(Score 1 for bad joke)
Btw, I got everybody beat. While I don’t DO yoga, you know the stretching stuff, I DO have a lot of books on Yoga philosophy. I’ll sit in a coffee shop, sipping on an organic chai, wearing a vintage leather jacket, rappin in hi-tek eboniclectual code, about the epistiemologic possiblities of Jnana insight while some cute chick from Burma, wearing a seethrough sari with an ironic t-shirt underneath and has a degree in Advanced Cultural Theory of Homeless 16 year Buddhist Queers, massages my back while chanting the lyrics to the new Radihead album.
What! What!
Yoga itself is probably the least expensive form of excersize since you don’t really need anything. A more appropriate “white people like” would be yoga outfits. Even people who don’t do yoga have them. Lululemon anyone?
You find more yoga studios in North American than in India because… well, there aren’t many yoga studios in India. The physical aspect is but one part of yoga, so it’s not separated from a spiritual practice. I reckon it would be redundant to open a studio when you’ve got an ashram, for example, or a guru’s home.
And #55 whocares, I got two words for ya: Bikram Choudhury. Also known as the Indian who made all the whiteys mad ’cause he wanted to copyright yoga.
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I dated a girl who was into pilates… basically the same thing, right? I don’t think she had expensive pants…
oooh the brampton reference was perfect
Some of you people remind me of the two teenagers I heard arguing over the “correct” way to draw the anarchy symbol.
Actually the Yoga should not cost more than one cent.. (if at all). That is Yoga !!!!!
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Wow this is very funny
The comments on this site are deluded. Everyone feels like it’s really important to tell everyone else who they are and why they do or do not fit the profile, when they could instead be learning how little of what they say and do matter. The author is self loathing, but funny – this is important stuff.
While I was hunting tigers out in india, I banged a couple of fuzzy-wuzzy women who seemed to know yoga or some such kafir hocus-pocus. They could touch the sky with there eyebrows..
god save the king
“kim”
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i hate yoga
I’m a Yoga instructor. I challenge you to endure a good 75-minute power vinyasa workout. You’ll be hooked after six weeks.
I love yoga. Feels great, is relaxing, calming…what isn’t to like?
Again, hafta say, I think my favorite part is the defensive comments. They kill me.
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I totally agree with JohnnyRambo…
i am mexican and i love yoga…am i the only one?
Haha I know…every time I see a Yoga place I wonder if Indian people are getting really pissed off because it’s one of those things like Cabalah where it just gets bastardized and commercialized in this society.
I mean being flexible and relaxed is cool and all but taking Yoga classes is just like when white people say they are “Buddhist.” I’m pretty sure it’s one of those things that people aren’t supposed to be making a huge profit off of. I’m no expert, but I know that Buddhism does not promote the owning of material goods. (But you know they sell those “inspirational meditation” books for like $50!)
Yeah I can’t believe how much people spend on “fitness” related things. Scary!
Kareem-Adbul Jabbar loves yoga! (He’s black)
Yay! I love this site and I Love Racism too…Just like the writer of this site!!! Lets all get togeather and raise awareness of All the bad things we can say about a race we dont like…like Hitler did!!!
Yoga is SO last decade! How about “integrative medicine,” the newest health craze that combines complementary/alternative medicine (known as CAM) with conventional medicine. This is a way for white people and even–gasp–other people too–to get the best of ALL worlds of medicine! Stuff you may never have heard of, like Alexander technique, Pilates, Tai chi, acupuncture, physical therapy “boot camp”, energy healing, and many other ways to spend money and wear great outfits. And if you don’t want to spend money, you can always boost your immune system by taking cold showers. More info here: http://www.roanneweisman.com/
Yoga classes around here are 3 dollars…and my “yoga” pants cost 10 dollars. But, if you’re a poor student like me, you work out at home, where a bunch of people aren’t watching you.
I also never had a hard stomach until I started yoga, despite doing weight training and biking for years…
Regardless, I love the site, and most things are disturbingly spot on, but it does seem super yuppie-ish.
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I spent $20 on a mat and wear the same gear I wear for every other sport! My yoga classes come with my gym membership, and my gym membership costs less than $250 per year and I go 5 times a week. Sounds like a bargain to me.
But most shocking of all……..I’ve seen real live “ethnic” people there; Asian, Black and Indian. Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!!! But yes, I’m inexcusably white.
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what the hell? who are you guys polling for this crap? so far the only one that makes sense is coffee. if all you iphone-tard technos believe that there’s either YOU or NASCAR fans when it comes to white people, then you’re outta your fucking minds. by the way, the people in the middle of that particular division that you draw within the white “race” all hate you.
Another thing white people like. trying to make their own town, village, or suburb as it may, seem significant or unique.
White people are obviously doing it wrong.
I’m black and have been doing it for over 35 years. I never paid a penny fr a Yoga class, except for the air fare i paid when I went to India to learn it properly. And t is pretty great; it changed my life around 180 degrees and I guess you know it is about far more than stretching.
In India itself the rule of thumb are a bit different than in America. Generally speaking, anyone who charges money for yoga or meditation classes is a charlatan. The best teachers come free. But they are hard to find.
I PEED A LITTLE BIT LAUGHING
I pooped my pants
I know! My yoga pants cost WAY more than 80 bucks…..!!!
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Brilliant!
What is G-d’s name are is this outfit made of? Are the rhinestones genuine or plastic?
I work at a yoga studio and I have to say this is very true but better to waste money on organic American made yoga pants and studio memberships than big screens and video games-though I am sure there are those who have both!
That’s cool!
I am a Yôga teacher and I have to comment that Yôga is merely streching, it´s a way of living.
Anyway, it´s a funny article!
Tools? Are you 12?
Yoga is fun and invigorating. And yes, it gives one a nice firm ass, etc…
Brampton has the BEST yoga teacher!!! Kinndli 🙂 and the best thing is..she is White
Alot of the accomplishments of whites were copied from or built upon the knowledge acquired from African, Asian,Latino and Arab cultures and groups Jordan. Lighten up! This site is just a joke!
Exactly!
— annoymous white yoga instructor
I used to be all messed up on drugs. Then I found yoga. Now I’m all messed up on Yoga –
excerpted with edits from Cheech and Chong – two not white doods.
I forgot my mantra!
I think the most incredible part is the wide variety of wacky names they come up with to describe their poses: “Greeting the Sun Goddess” “Awake and Unfold” “Stay Together, Cheeks, Stay Together!”
I’m white and I hate yoga.
Mainly because it feels like my legs have been amputated after several minutes sitting in the lotus position.
there is nothing i hate more in this world than lululemon
Oh lordy.
Sweetie, let me tell you a little something. The accomplishments you think give you bragging rights? Were those of OTHER white people… not YOU.
Einstein was a genius. This does not make you less of a moron.
The nameof the city “Calcutta” has been officially changed to “Kolkata”…Maybe that’s the reason…
all of this is very true….why spend 400 dollars on a racer back top and stretch pants made of coconut shells when you can just use cotton shorts and an old t-shirt? My best friend blows wads of money on this shit and still has no idea what the word yoga means….owned
When I was 10 or 12 my father, a busy bureaucrat, gave me my first yoga lesson – and it’s probably the best thing he ever did for me. Twenty years of intermittent yoga later, I spent an hour every day for 6 weeks learning asanas at a yoga institute in my town, practically for free. A little later, I travelled to Dharmsala and Rishikesh for what were essentially meditation courses. Today, yoga is an integral part of my daily life, and is responsible for making and keeping me happy and whole. Unlike most white people, Indians like me treat yoga as a way of life.
It does make your ass nice and firm.
You’re right. Yoga is Sanskrit for “Union” and is about much more than physical fitness. Leave it to the West to strip it of it’s spiritual roots and leave only the gimmicky garbage that all image obsessed assholes are suckers for.
Yes!!!!
Okay, I have to admit though, while the true purpose of Yoga has been cut to shreds by the West, I love my Yoga ball! I just love that that thing.
you pooped for so many times. how many pants have you changed? or you just kept pooping into one? ew
Yoga is actually 100% free. Get a video or book from the library and do it in a park when it’s nice outside.
My “yoga outfit” cost me $20 dollars. $15 for yoga pants I got from T.J. Maxx and $5 dollars for the Hanes t-shirt from Wal-Mart.
By the way, that “stretching” gets you ultra flexible. Great when you’re in bed with a significant other.
White people like to say stuff “rocks!”
LOL!
I don’t say nothing when black folk spend their hard earned money on Air Jordan’s and spinning rims so leave my 100 dollar pants out of it. We all like what we like.
yes, you have to go to oakville for yoga 🙂
ironic, indeed.
So very true! My four month summers in Brampton are often scarce in terms of Yoga practice :(. London however has a billion of them (many heated!) which makes up wonderfully.
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Yoga is definitely a white “sport”. I’m a non-white person who has done quite a bit of yoga. And yes like many trends that the white affluent class quickly adopts, yoga feels good and is good for you both mentally and physically.
However the problem I have with yoga is that white people have embraced it so much as their own “ethnic thing”, that they’ve become somewhat territorial about it. They have infused so much elitism to yoga, that if you are not white and you walk into a studio, they look at you as though you are invading their “cultural tradition” which they had so carefully perfected. Some folks who have been “doing yoga forever” have become, in their minds, Indian. In fact, many people adopt Indian or Hindu names as part of this ritual. This is sad to me. Somehow, they can’t be Charles anymore. Charles is now “Chittaprasad”. “Hey, it means ‘happiness’. But you can call me ‘Chi’ for short.”
WHY? Why do you have to say “Namaste”? You are a white American. Gee, that must be so hard for you… what with the world shaped entirely around you. DEAL WITH IT. Your changing your name and adopting a holier than thou attitude is not going to bring peace to the world. It hasn’t even brought peace to anybody close to you… namely the person next to you who’s just trying to win at yoga today. YES, I know there is not winning in yoga. Screw you.
Huh? What equipment?
Also, I don’t get why it’s being called expensive. I do yoga at home. It’s free.
Like anything else in America, it’s been subjected to the consumer machine and made expensive [in some cases]. They did that to water too.
I think it’s kinda hilarious that you say you like yoga but don’t like the “weirdness” and “religion” of it.
So things are only acceptable to you if they don’t bring you out of your comfort zone? Then take an aerobics class and stay out of yoga! The rest of us thank you!
> basically the same thing, right?
No.
I hafta say, my favorite part is the people who feel all superior pointing out the defensive comments.
Ha! Love it.
RACIST! Just playing. So true.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
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Hey, wait a minute. Yoga doesn’t have to cost much. I’ve bought one pair of yoga pants in my life (yes, from Target, and my mother and I hemmed them …) and many studios offer the other equipment. Classes cost $7-15 and last 45-105 minutes. If you go enough, you can practice at home as well. Meanwhile, it’s not just about stretching. There are many many health benefits.
I’m a vinyasa yoga teacher… if it were just stretching for an hour, people wouldn’t be dripping sweat on the people around them. I had to laugh about the ridiculously priced pants… so true. However, to add some extra whiteness to this comment, the expensive pants perform a lot better if you practice a lot. (And you know we white people love function and efficiency.)
I practice and/or teach for at least 90 minutes a day, which means the pants get washed after every use, usually… they have to be high-quality or they don’t last two months! And I think teachers feel some extra pressure to look nice. I can do without rhinestones, but we can’t show up to teach class in sweatpants.
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“I’m a vinyasa yoga teacher… I had to laugh about the ridiculously priced pants…”
Just as I laugh at you. What was the name of the last sutra you read? Define nonduality. What are tamas and rajas? Name the four kinds of yoga. Who was Patanjali? Nagarjuna? Arjuna?
Fool. You teach NOTHING. Who teaches and who learns?
You carry on your fraud, while those of us who earnestly try to resolve into nondual reality — the true meaning and purpose of YOGA — continue to do so.
Some people, man.
– T
You spelled Stretching wrong.
I’m white. XDD
I am white.
I have never taken yoga. I tell my dad to, but thats just because he gets angry easy when driving.
That comment about Brampton was hilarious. How true.
“Yoga classes are too expensive…” True. I thought that too, but then my friend introduced me to this studio in NY that takes donations. You give whatever you can to the studio, which may mean you give $10 or $1 or even nothing. Plus, you can store your mat there. Personally, I see no downsides to that.
ever made love to a woman in the uttanasana position? yoga is amazing.
Hey….the whole point of the yoga and non-dual thing is to cultivate greater compassion or at least not to create more hard and aggression in this world. The dharma is not supposed to be used as a weapon to beat up on other people.
What on earth is ‘Yoga’?
Is that like a drink or something?
I am sorry, but you have got to be fucking kidding me. Do you live in a hole in the ground?
I’m not white but I’ve been doing yoga for the past year and a half, usually just to check out the hot white girls in class. There are always hot white girls in yoga classes.
So so true… I’ve been doing yoga for years and my classes are full of ’em (including myself I’d like to think…)
Yoga is good for people all ages especially people over 40, there are some great yoga clothes and positions available at http://www.revoint.com
Q: Why couldn’t the Yogi vacuum his carpet?
A: He had lost his attachments.
Yoga means union with the supreme.
Another thing white people like to do is bastardise other cultures.
I love making fun of Yoga–this is probably one of the only things on this site that doesn’t apply to me.
But yeah, everyone I know at my whitebread college does it–and I never give them a single moment of peace either.
Isn’t it Calcutta? And Bombahia, not Mumbai, if you want to be revisionist, by the way.
who ever wrote the commentary is obviously ignorant to what yoga is all about.
yoga is alot more than streching .it is a mind,body,breath and dare i say it ..spiritual connection to a being bigger than yourself.
it need not be expensive and you do not have to wear 80$ pants , in fact you can wear no pants at all.
and by the way, not only white people practice yoga, there are as many practitionars as there are races.
get real and namaste.
bravo-well said
Looks like somebody doesn’t know what satire is.
He must do :p
so i guess this white guy is offended
and loving it
its whatever it is supposed to be in Hindi, so our variations in english really doesn’t even matter. But for the sake of our eurocentric ways the convention is Calcutta and Mumbai (which has replaced the archaic name of Bombay).
No pants yoga? I’m in!
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This is hilarious! Some of you fail to realize that this is satire… get a life & stop being so damn offended! The generalizations are funny but do not apply to all whites-still very amusing, though. And I happen to be a non-white yoga lover – go figure.
Jesus H Christ – get a freakin’ sense of humor or go home!
You sound like a moron with no sense of humor.
You sound extremely angry and aggressive for someone who practices yoga. You may be missing the point…
you are way too uptight for someone who does yoga. Satire,satire,satire…perhaps you should look for your sense of humor next time you center you chi.
Yoga is exercise for people who don’t like to exercise! I guarantee if you go to an online dating website looking for women and you search for the ones who list yoga as their fitness regimen of choice, you will have lots of dates with fat, lazy women (probably Wiccan).
“Dare I say it”….um, ok Mr. Can’t-take-a-joke. Geez, hit the yoga mats. Go connect with your spiritual being.
I find this list hysterical. Some of the stuff does seem to apply to the many things that i like to do but in yoga i think you can split up white people who do you into four major practices:
-Serious people do hatha yoga
-athletes do bekrun or ashtanga
-adventurous people do
-the rest they have no clue what they do
i dare you to try hot yoga. out of shape people usually end up puking or passing out. for some reason i think you probably would to
For $80. at Wal_Mart, you can get
a yoga DVD and a pair of sweatpants.
Cheap whiteys rejoice!!
Amen! I am a white person and find some of the generalizations to be true of myself and my white family and friends, but more than anything, I think this is completely hilarious! I think humor is super important as we have conversations about race and work through issues of racism. I mean, if we can’t laugh at ourselves and some of our interesting if not silly behavior how will we ever understand even a fraction of what people who aren’t white likely see?
Can you really pick up white women by going to yoga? I mean none of these yogis every seem to be hot studs despite the number of gullible enlighten-me-now! white female followers they seem to gather around them.
Fuck yoga.
Yoga is stupid..
You are wrong again.
Thomas ( a white guy )
I used to do yoga (in my house, for free) before I realized it was dull and silly, but it is pretty funny when people ask me if I can put my legs behind my head. At least it makes me seem marginally impressive.
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I am black and I love to do yoga. My husband doesn’t do it nor understand it. He is white. It is a part of my gym membership. But you are right, there are more white people than black folks in the class. Sometimes there is only one to two black folks in the class. I think a lot of black people don’t think yoga is okay because of their religious upbringing. They are told that since it is from the eastern religion, it is considered evil and dangerous.
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hmmm very nice
And if they were given enough miney and education they would be in your class, right?
Or in other words strip it of the Indian supernatural nonsense and pare it down to leave the real benefits (flexibility and fitness).
well said
Yoga is just a less fancy and expensive term for Pilates.
After having had Christmas and Halloween taken away at the school where she works, my mom, out of spite, was able to get yoga nixed (both for the students and the evening adult programs that used the premises) on the basis that it was a practice from Hinduism. Go mom.
I wonder why Christians always want to bring religion into everything they do or say? Yoga, though it has Indian origins and had developed with the Hindu faith, is just a form of exercise. It has nothing to do with one’s religion. The h]Hindu scriptures do not limit yoga to practising Hindus only…………. sort of like Ayurvedic medicine.
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Its not really a huge thing for guys of any race
It’s not really a huge thing for guys of any race
Yoga is a big thing in every city big or small. At my college they have classes every week
…which a lot of men will attend
Nope.
Your mom is awesome!
Wow…you’re kind of a racist, aren’t you?
your so funny!!!
You are so funny i never thought that there waz a website like this :PPPPPPP
LMAO LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
white people like DMT
http://journalofthieves.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/dimethyltryptamine/
Why, because he has a sense of humor… Get over yourself…
White people do not get over themselves … sheesh.
rofl, I love this site. I’m white and find it hysterical. If you are taking this as offensive, -you- are the people he’s making fun of. Apparently, white people don’t like satire 😛
what about tai chi?
LOL YOU SED STERTCHING INSTEAD OF STRETCHING, +1 WHITE POINT.
With all your BC references, I think you either live in Vancouver, or all that bullshit about how BC is the “Best Place on Earth” and is envied by the western world is true. I think it’s the former.
Yoga is great and so is Stuff White People Like!
For a more serious take on yoga, visit the Successful Living Quotes blog.
to practice yoga, all you need to have is the willingness to open yourself up to try new stuff, bringing body and mind to your own limits, without hurting yourself. yoga takes care of keeping your body in shape and not to whine like many people do about back problems, stiffness etc, hence keeping the mind free of any unnecessary thoughts.
you do not need to have fancy clothes or expensive yogamats. you can practice yoga in your jeans – with tiem you’ll outstretch it.
You said “SED” instead of “SAID”. “Wrote” is more appropriate.
you see, its this type of typical sanctimonious drivel that turns SANE people off yoga.
I’m going to now focus on my back pain and stiffness, hence driving out all thoughts of yoga.
Wow, this is such a fun blog. a place I can come to prove my ignorance with my peers. I love to moan about other people to make myself feel better . It’s super fun ;P It’s great to be oblivious about the repercussions of spreading misinformation and deny any responsibility in the name of half-ass comedy.
Who needs yoga when you have all this?
Yours untruly
the Hypocrite
Humour.
Learn it please.
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Maybe if your gay and in california.
that about sums that one
You are not clever at all … you are an idiot!
Kill Whitey??? Bad attitude & more.
to the maybe if you’re gay in california guy..
it wasn’t funny the first time.
keep fucking your sister there big guy and stop straining your brain with humorous blogs.l
For me it isn’t so much the repetition that annoys me, but the repeated use of the incorrect, “you’re/your”… Thank you for correcting it when you quoted it….
Really, this article only shows how little you know about yoga, and how little you know at all.
First, yoga is not a “5 minutes stretching”. It’s fitness and relaxation combined into a very demanding activity.
It cost nothing if you learn it yourself, and less than 100$/year if you follow courses with an instructor/guru. As for the clothing, you only need a pair of leggings or sweatpants and any shirt you like.
Please, stop being a total ignorant and read a bit before spiting stupidities on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga
This article is intended to be humorous. The author is probably making these baseless generalization on purpose; given that this entire article is a baseless generalization…
Congratulations dipshit. You clearly don’t get it. It’s supposed to be that way.
HAHA! this is funny! I am black and I am learning “yoga” But yeah, I am always the only black dude there. Yes, ah… I do feel it is kind of plastic teachings but I just take what I can and use it to better myself. Yeah, when I read about yoga masters in india they seem very serious about their teachings and it’s more spiritual per say. But hey, this is the land of captialism!!! What to transcend spiritually? We take Visa and Master card.
شات
دردشة
white women are so into humiliating the other races and sexes in the classes and teacher training… mostly by pretending they aren’t there. I know a person who simply dropped out of teacher training because she couldn’t stand these swine. Was a sacrifice getting there, and they made it impossible.
not very yogic behavior if you ask me…
I can’t wait to find your blog entry “Eagles Concert”, or “Fleetwood Mac” concert. Or any of the shitty music masquerading as hip or happening I used to like as a cluleless white guy.
I am gonna love this blog…
This is supposed to be satirical folks. Lighten up!
I agree. You can learn this stuff for free. On your own. With a chart. Equally as disturbing is the fact that all these blissed out white people (I’m white as well) mistake this excercise for a spiritual path. IT IS NOT! I made serious attempts at over a hundred yoga centers in the NY Metro area to teach actual meditation classes as well as workshops in devotion and mantra as a complimentary practice to yoga and guess what? These folks operate like a mafia. A rich, white, fad-driven mafia. Go on youtube and look at all these blissed out escapists. The world needs our presence and conscious participation now, not beatific, blissed out chanting. The culture these folks are ripping offf doesn’t have perfect teeth nor do they spend 100 bucks on loose pants for their fat asses. They are humble and don’t rip each other off. They’re the real-deal! Practice devotion in Jersey City. It’s real there…It’s not in Nyack, NY home of the Dharma Disco -belch – and the Birchwood Center where you best not enter if you have a penis!
I attended kirtan at a yoga center in Mahwah, NJ only to have the guy leading it greet me with a joint. These folks looked and acted like a rock band. Your average atendee was wearing about two tousand dollars worth of clothing and jewelery. When I offered to teach a meditation class there the co-ownner told me she’d have to check up on me. Gee, thanks Home Yoga Studio! Guess I wasn’t white or upper class enough!
Wake up! It’s later than you think!
While I enjoy this post tremendously for its satirical view on the “white life,” I hate to break it to you–yoga is a part of Hindu philosophy, not Indian or Southeast Asian history. It IS, without a doubt, a form of exercise, but its primary goal is union with Vishnu (the Hindu god). My family is Indian, and I was raised by grandparents who were taught real (REAL) yoga by yogis in Indian villages, and who spent their adult lives practicing what they had learned in Hindu temples here. It’s funny to me how people try to come up with “Christian yoga.” That’s an oxymoron in itself. It’s like having a “Muslim bible,” or a “Hindu Q’uran.” You want to stretch, and focus on Jesus while doing it? Fine. Stretch and say the Our Father. But yoga originates from Hinduism. (I’m not saying it in a defensive way, but this is also something most white people hate to be told. And I know this cuz I went to all-white schools my whole life.)
Awesome blog.
I see the article is written in a light vein and all that is fine except that not all that is written here is true. Yog is not “basically stretching” as the author thinks. It has, very complex to master, 8 limbs within it. What we do here is just one limb of Yog, also known as postures. The other limbs are tightly coupled to the spiritual beliefs of sanatan dharma which very few people here will agree to or even appreciate it. However, I do agree with him on the fact that most yoga studios in here charge exorbitant amounts. It is becoming more of a style statement than a guide to stay fit for commoners.
nope
But wait, there’s even more to it!
On a deeper level, yoga is actually a way of surreptitiously demonstrating the flexibility of you as a whole. To be truly white, one must convey how open and accepting of everyone and everything you really are, but coming out and saying this would be far to crass for a professional white person, thus the white love of yoga.
…..way too deep for me I went to Yoga to meet woman! Nothing to date….but I still go?
What is this yoga?
Yoga is a perfect example of the unrelenting desire of the over-educated upper middle class liberal urban white elitist to feel worldly without having to actually travel.
I try to mention yoga in every one of my posts. I do take yoga because it feels good after 2 1/2 hours of Kung Fu. I also like the yin energy.
I’m feeling pretty white now, but I need to get another cup of organic, Fair-Trade, French-pressed, Ethiopian Harrar coffee.
I LOVE YOGA! I can’t afford classes anymore (being a poor college kid and all) but I do it at night before bed. It helps me feel amaaaazing!
Im black and I started to do the yoga in the heated room. It is hellacious! I kind of like the yoga though :0)
Yoga? Well Im sure if we had one out hear near the Sizzler or Golden Coral, all them Fat ladies would populate it and that would be a scarey sight….Make my eyes hurt cause wrecks and sutch… What tha hell is Yoga.. is that tha little green guy from Star Wars that helped that fella Skywalker do them mind tricks? Now thats Yoga! Yogas for wussys…. If you want to work out go and Fence 50 acres wth 4 double barbe-wire lines and T posts durning the summer! Garanteed to come back Skinnier and with bigger kahonies!
Fuck hatha yoga. It isn’t serious yoga at all, and neither are the cluless people that blow significant portions of their shoe store paycheques on classes — if they’re not out buying their goddamned Ugg boots, iPods, Starbucks coffees, Lulu sport bags and T&A clothing. And oh, their neoprene yoga mats too.
Hatha is FRAUGHT with FRAUDS and fast talking con artists that don’t know the first thing about yoga, and the vast majority of them happen to be white.
REAL yoga is the science of ego obliteration, of merging with source, of foregoing one’s attachments to EVERYTHING. True yoga begets true maturity, not the grade school behaviors you silly conformists demonstrate when you just can’t avoid being one of the fifteen zillion lemmings that just HAS to have the latest 32GB iPod touch that you tote to your weekend yoga “classes.”
The best reason for a man to do yoga is to hang out with barefoot chicks with bangs who can bend themselves into pretzels.
What you do is to get some tea with aforesaid girl, talk about global warming for a bit, and then. . . Booya! I tell you, all that stamina and flexibility sure is going to come in handy.
You can learn this stuff for free. On your own. With a chart. Equally as disturbing is the fact that all these blissed out white people (I’m white as well) mistake this excercise for a spiritual path. IT IS NOT! I made serious attempts at over a hundred yoga centers in the NY Metro area to teach actual meditation classes as well as workshops in devotion and mantra as a complimentary practice to yoga and guess what? These folks operate like a mafia. A rich, white, fad-driven mafia. Go on youtube and look at all these blissed out escapists. The world needs our presence and conscious participation now, not beatific, blissed out chanting. The culture these folks are ripping offf doesn’t have perfect teeth nor do they spend 100 bucks on loose pants for their fat asses. They are humble and don’t rip each other off. They’re the real-deal! Practice devotion in Jersey City. It’s real there…It’s not in Nyack, NY home of the Dharma Disco -belch – and the Birchwood Center where you best not enter if you have a penis!
I attended kirtan at a yoga center in Mahwah, NJ only to have the guy leading it greet me with a joint. These folks looked and acted like a rock band. Your average atendee was wearing about two tousand dollars worth of clothing and jewelery. When I offered to teach a meditation class there the co-ownner told me she’d have to check up on me. Gee, thanks Home Yoga Studio! Guess I wasn’t white or upper class enough!
Wake up! It’s later than you think!
You can learn this stuff for free. On your own. With a chart. Equally as disturbing is the fact that all these blissed out white people (I’m white as well) mistake this excercise for a spiritual path. IT IS NOT! I made serious attempts at over a hundred yoga centers in the NY Metro area to teach actual meditation classes as well as workshops in devotion and mantra as a complimentary practice to yoga and guess what? These folks operate like a mafia. A rich, white, fad-driven mafia. Go on youtube and look at all these blissed out escapists. The world needs our presence and conscious participation now, not beatific, blissed out chanting. The culture these folks are ripping offf doesn’t have perfect teeth nor do they spend 100 bucks on loose pants for their fat asses. They are humble and don’t rip each other off. They’re the real-deal! Practice devotion in Jersey City. It’s real there…It’s not in Nyack, NY home of the Dharma Disco -belch – and the Birchwood Center where you best not enter if you have a penis!
I attended kirtan (?) in Mahwah, NJ only to have the guy leading it greet me with a joint. These folks looked and acted like a rock band. Your average atendee was wearing about two tousand dollars worth of clothing and jewelery. When I offered to teach a meditation class there the co-ownner told me she’d have to check up on me. Gee, thanks Home Yoga Studio! Guess I wasn’t white or upper class enough!
Wake up! It’s later than you think!
bikram yoga is even whiter. i do it, i’m guilty, and it takes 90 minutes. i go into a room in 105 degree heat that smells like god knows what and…anyway, it just keeps getting whiter!
“Practice devotion in Jersey City. It’s real there…”
Real? Please. Put your toys away, youngster, and read the following.
Imagine, out of the blue, coming to the shocking realization that you never existed, and that none of the millions of thoughts running through your head or countless choices you’ve made over the years were ever yours. It could happen at anytime and anywhere — no “downward dog” necessary.
Imagine hearing your own name and reflecting on precisely what it refers to within yourself. Shout it out loud if you must — for in every instance you or anyone else utters your name, it disappears forever into a substanceless void — the very void you are made of.
Imagine that locatable ‘I’ is suddenly nowhere to be found. For neither rhyme nor reason you cannot say whether you are hither nor thither — your identity is little more than a simple awareness that does not exhibit choice, does not act and is ALWAYS present, even during deep sleep.
Let’s put it this way. TRUE YOGA basically says you’re a fucking ghost; unchangeable, indestructible and always there. You own nothing, do nothing, say nothing and hear nothing — you walk but you create no footprints. Et cetera.
Have I scared the shit out of you? Good, because ultimately yoga devoid of what I describe above is not yoga at all — that is the union intended by true yoga and is the state of every brave soul who’s ever put the science of true yoga to practice and succeeded. It a state completely free of desire, so I’m not certain you trendy, Starbuck-drinking, Ugg boot and Lulu-wearing fuckers could want it or even handle it.
And for sure as hell it ain’t something you’ll want to or could show off to your hollow-eyed, fad-following friends.
Bottom line? Fuck hatha — it’s the bastard child of true yoga, and a forgettable one at that.
Spread the fright, bitches.
_TU
Eat it! So your more enlightened than everyone else?
Doesn’t aound it asshole!
Scared the shit ouuta me? Hardly. You’re a belligerent asshole. If you would had take the time you would have realized we agree on this. OK I give up! You’re expert….but take a closer look ghost – you’re trapped the the one upsmanship that guru chasing breeds.
Do some real work, feel real pain.
That’s your guru.
That’s you’re awakening.
You aint there yet…
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“You’re a belligerent asshole.”
I am your reality check, Mr. Starbuck iPod, but I accept that as a compliment.
Yoga is merely a way to scratch the back of your head with your foot.
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Yoga is actually really good for you, but you can buy a paperback book for $6 that explains how to do everything and do it on the floor at home
I love the Vancouver BC references, cuz I live here! I’m sure me being white has something to do with this
http://thefitcast.com/yoga-this-and-pilates-that
I didn’t realize how true this was until I moved to California… WTF? How many yoga studios can you put into a block (in an upscale neighborhood in California)?! And why the heck are all these white people walking around in yoga pants with their cute, decorated yoga mats? I *HATE* admitting I’ve done yoga at any point in my life because I’ve run into so many holier-than-thou, self-righteous yoga-ites out here, and they think that this one common thing is the beginning to some out-of-this-world spiritual bond that we supposedly share… ugh. Don’t even get me started on them talking to me about Eastern spirituality and philosophy… I can’t even get myself to *want* to go to a yoga class anymore.
i guess this don’t apply to the white trash amongst us.
I live in DC and there has got to be more yoga studios than Starbucks, and trust me, there is one Starbucks on every block
I imagine that Tai Chi counts halfway under this heading, which means I get half points in whiteness.
Tough to say, but a good point. Taiji (tai chi) takes a level of dedication to practice it correctly. Yoga can be practiced with full dedication or casually. To put it another way, a novice taiji practitioner will not be taught a new move or posture until they have demonstrated that they “know” the previous posture. And most taiji instructors will not teach much more than the superficial posture to those who do not practice at home. The qi development and martial arts applications will be held back.
Yoga is structured differently. You are led through all of the postures and poses. The instructor helps with the nuances and basics. Basically you go through the routine and hopefully get better. Now there classes and instructors that do not suffer fools and casual practitioners (Baptiste Power yoga, for example). But these are reserved for the advanced student.
This long-winded post is not a knock on yoga. I have a lot of respect for the art. Personally, I am a casual student. I practice to compliment my martial-arts. Taiji is one of those things that white people like to talk about. When they realize that they can’t just drop in every now and then, they lose interest. It just becomes too much work. I give you full whiteness points for taiji but more because of its connection with Taoism. And that is most likely a religion your parents don’t belong to.
Why criticise yoga? it is so good. Just try it…
But then I have never set foot in a gym and I am not planning to… maybe you’re either a gym or a yoga addict (yes I have heard apparently gyms have yoga classes…that seems so strange though!)
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how come we don’t seem to have ‘yoga pants’ here in Europe?
Yoga is cool, you just don’t need to spend money to do it. Regular clothes at home do juuuusssst fine. Enjoy!
yeah yoga makes me feel like a million bucks! try it at home.
Americans try to make money off of anything they can, hence yoga pants. They really are just regular stretchy spandex/cotton blend pants, but marketed to people who have the money to buy and wear certain types of pants for certain occasions.
I LOVE that this mentions Surrey and Brampton. I’m brown and I think every relative I have in Canada either lives in or has once lived in Surrey and/or Brampton.
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My sentiments exactly
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on things like yoga classes.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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do white people dig sex like they dig all the other things on this list?
i like downward doggie style.
he,he, he,
with the depression coming up in 2010 better get into adult entertainment. better money, no BS schooling needed.
sounds good to me. doggie style. I am over 45 years, any positions available in porno for geriatric performers, no job, and the maubama’s stimulation program did nothing for the average person.
i am a loser with too many names and too much time. i think the reason why i’m skrewd up is cuz my dad rapes me… Blak pwr
i is a dum nigg wit no job, no respekt and no pussy, dat be y i is using peeps names. cuz i cant argue 4 sheeeeit, i is 2 slow and stupid dawgg!
I love yoga
Michael on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, that’s how I get through life. At work, in school and with other people. More of a Californian thing, if I wasn’t in the state of Cal. I wouldn’t be required to, then I’m one of those autistic nerds or something tries to get by in life. I’m a product of my own environment, middle-class people get down on their luck and have to face reality. I share this guy’s sarcastic sense of humor on how he perceives the world through a “white man’s” comical point of view. +
See autism boy, I can dig up alot more on your dumb ass if you continue with this race shit that you started.
Test me bitch.
YOINK!
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Is there a stuffjewishpeoplelike.com ??
Tiffany, your not very intellegent are you…….
Yoga is dull….
As usual, another blog filled with inane comments from severly undereducated people.
OK, losers posting to any and all internet sites: YOUR OPINION IS STUPID AND UNINFORMED. POSTING SAID STUPID AND UNINFORMED OPINION ON SOME OTHER IDIOT’S STUPID AND UNINFORMED INTERNET SITE DOES NOT VALIDATE OR MAKE YOU SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER STUPID AND UNINFORMED PEOPLE POSTING ON THE INTERNET SITE.
Most of you are missing out on the joy and vibrancy of life. Your lives are a waste of endless consumerism and self-absorption. I, as a marketer, am having a field-day on your ignorance. The money keeps rolling in and, with each ridiculous product I produce and market, I scratch my head and say “Are you people this shallow? And the answer, without exception, is a resounding ‘Yes’!
Amazing. A capitalist society that cannot even get along with itself is easy pickings for someone as intelligent, both intellectually and emotionally, as I am. The game is obvious. I make my money on your backs because you all are too ignorant and habituated to realize that what you think is your ‘freedom’ and ‘independence’ are the chains that bind you.
You have no self-control: only self-absorption. “More, more, more…” is your mantra as you desperately try to find some meaning in your meaningless lives.
This is not a rant. Look at your pathetic lives and do something about them. The information is readily available but you are either too arrogant and wealthy or too stupid and fat to do the work necessary to truly wake up.
Your time here is not a dress rehearsal. Do you understand that you, like your fizzy colas and double-decaf mocha lattes, have an expiration date?
All the best!
this is silly yoga isn’t expensive they have free classes at my University’s gym and many other places. Also you wear sweats and don’t even need shoes. Also it isn’t just stretching it’s a lot of strength moves so it’s a whole body conditioning
This is the worst description of Yoga i have ever read. I think your referring to people who dont do yoga
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I’ll bet you dont even have a job.
*you’re* *intelligent*
yes their are more yoga “Studios” in America and stuff but the fact is Indian people just know how to do yoga
they can buy cheap bootleg dvd’s, youtube, and its televised
Indian’s are known to be cheap so why would they waste money on classes???
wait…didn’t you just do (exponentially more) what you just said was stupid?
“OK, losers posting to any and all internet sites: YOUR OPINION IS STUPID AND UNINFORMED. POSTING SAID STUPID AND UNINFORMED OPINION ON SOME OTHER IDIOT’S STUPID AND UNINFORMED INTERNET SITE DOES NOT VALIDATE OR MAKE YOU SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER STUPID AND UNINFORMED PEOPLE POSTING ON THE INTERNET SITE”
sorry…but this shit is funny…
my bio teacher claims to be the godfather of the creator of lululemons children.
The neo-hippie counter-culture– he majority of which happen to be both “White” (aka culture-less or rebellious) and American– are obsessed with “borrowing” and capitalizing on the mundane practices from other cultures whose origins are very practical. Hell, if you can make a quick buck off some poor 3rd World schmuck, why not?
Does some self-obsessed, raw foodist, self-proclaimed “yogi” from Santa Monica really give a shit about the poverty-stricken Indians living in Mumbai shanties, who have never performed yoga, nor give a shit?
India : Yoga. It’s just stretching, for crying out loud. The passive-aggressive “namaste” perma-happy posing also makes me sick. These fucks are secretly training for underground MMA fighting or expressing their pent-up rage through other, darker outlets.
China: Feng Shui. Moving furniture around to maximize space because 30 people are living in your tiny flat. Literally done to have a pathway for everyone to clear out. The Chinese Zodiac and ying-yang concept is another example of an ancient relic in modern, pseudo-Western China.
Polynesia: Tattoos: While they occur in every culture, the largest modern-day influence has to be from the Polynesians and the U.S. Military (Navy). Now, almost every 17-18 year old girl has tramp stamps, and every closeted male college athlete gets the “tribal” band or something “artistic” (read: idiotic) on their arm or leg. And Polynesians? Only tribal members will partake in tattooing for religious/cultural religions, and not because it’s anti-establishment or done during an altered state. If you ever want to break the glass ceiling as a barista, sandwich artist or tattoo artist (how ironic), avoid the ink.
Fuck, that was a waste of 5 minutes.
Does it make you feel good about yourself that you pull one over on ignorant people? You’re worse than them- you knowingly exploit people for your own capitalistic gains, and then insult them for subscribing to the hegemony that you yourself hold up.
Yoga is a combination of asanas (movement) and meditation. Yes, it has become “just stretching” in many circumstances due to appropriation by a puritanical society that traditionally disallows any opening of the mind (other than prayer to the Judeo-Christian God) for fear of the devil getting in. However, in its unadulterated form, it is a complex practice that takes years to develop and brings far more than the ability to touch one’s toes.
Not only are your arguments disrespectful of Americans who adopt yoga (who are probably collectively supporting more poor people in developing countries than the average American), but they are extremely disrespectful of Indians, both by marginalizing an ancient spiritual practice and assuming that all Indians live in slums and thus do not practice yoga . I have a friend from India who grew up in a slum and is now teaching yoga around the world. He sends his proceeds back to the village where he grew up, and has built schools for the children there. Yoga was his guiding force when his father died, his tool for raising himself up from the slums, and his opportunity to share a practice of his culture with the world. If it had not become so popular recently, he would not have that opportunity.
lol, Good stuff. Don’t expect a voice of reason to penetrate the fog of the Kool-aid drinkers this site parodies.
They are like zombies, and liberal ideological dogma is the ‘brains’ they call food.
I am Indian, I do yoga, but not like the white people you talk of… I do it for free, and there is no way I paying $100 for lululemon yoga pants (are you people crazy, what do you think these work out bottoms will do for you?) that is for kids in high school who don’t have any sense and buy into fads and for the adults that never grew out of that phase. Sorry, i hate that lululemon crap….i just can’t believe people don’t feel ripped off….if you think it’s worth it cos they make your ass look good….do more yoga so your ass looks good with nothing on and you don’t have to gouged.
Basically, if yoga is expensive, you are doing it wrong…or whoever is teaching you is just milking you while you love it up….
ha. so what if you wanna spend a mint on clothes and get in shape. i used to talk crap but now i think, eh…i’ll screw up somewhere myself so whatever…
but i love laughing at people so proceed.
Well that’s the thing, white people like the idea of yoga, Indian people actually practice yoga.
Thank god someone finally called lulumon(or however you spell it) out! They try to come off as such an eco friendly healthy lifestyle company, yet they use sweatshops and child labor in asia. It drives me nuts when I see luluemon ads in yoga journal with inspirational sayings like “do what makes you the happiest” and “friends are more important than money”. Okayyyyyy so if friends are more important than money why do they charge 100 plus dollars for an article of clothing?
I practice yoga. I love yoga, but I do not love what the US consumer culture has done to it. Instead of being about helping others by making yourself healthier and happier, it is about expensive spandex clothes and getting a “yoga butt” whatever the hell that is.
Yoga is more to do with breath control and yes … stretching and making the body more flexible. It keeps you young beyond belief. Its funny that the less you know about something, the more exotic and useless it seems.
you do understand that this post, this whole blog is satire- right?
Your mom’s intelligent.
This is all quite funny…I mean the whole blog.
But I think that our behaviours are more connected with our financial situation, than with the colour of the skin…I am “white” (this is weird)..but I am not a snob…I think there are a lot of snobs in every group o people.
Some time ago someone called me (joking…) “stupid white woman”. The strangeness of that sentence has been persecuting me until now…I was looking for some interpretations, idioms…well, all were very unpleasant…So racist jokes are…hmm…strange for me.
Take care..
I’m white and I despise yoga.
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You despise it? That’s pretty harsh language, you could simply not be a patron.
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Skinny white women LOVE yoga. Do they realize how fucking stupid they all look? like for real.
Yoga is legitimate, and healthy. The stupid part is not doing Yoga; it’s paying for the clothes and trainers.
Do you realize how stupid and narrow minded you sound? I guess you think that people exercising look stupid huh?
Trogladite!
I do agree with you, but I’ll play the devil’s advocate and assert that people exercising rarely look terribly chill either. Such is life.
The last sentence, mentioning Surrey and Brampton, BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
My colleagues at work have been pestering me to try this the last several weeks. I’ve been reluctant since I find an activity consisting of stretching for an hour to be odd myself. If I’m going to do something physical for an hour, I’d rather play a sport (and I mean a real sport, not kickball or a children’s game:). I finally gave in and said I would go until I read this article and cancelled. You saved me an hour of my life. Not to mention the fact that once I tried yoga I would undoubtedly be invited to some other senseless activity appearing on this site. Thanks stuffwhitepeoplelike.com!!!!!
Obviously the person who wrote this one has never tried Yoga. Its great and you get a full body work out. It is better for those of us who have had injuries in the past and need to take it slower or are just not the really competitive type. If you like dance you will enjoy yoga.
yo yoga is wack son. you whiteys got to much time on your hand. instead a wasting money on yoga pay my bills its the least you can do for slavrey. obamas gonna make it happen.
nah, $12 per 90 minute lesson. about as costly as a y membership and cheap compared to a gym. its also really hard. oh well old post blog no longer fashionable
He misspelled stretching!!!
How about a one way ticket back to Africa?
People in India don’t want you there either!
While I find Yogis a trifle insipid, holier that thou, and generally mentally bereft, it is good for a once and a while thorough stretch. Lots of sports athletes of all races do it to retain their range of motion. I would never do it exclusively, or even as a primary practice.
This site is super jokes, but don’t knock yoga until you’ve tried it. It’s not just stretching and you certainly don’t need money or an entire LuLuLemon outfit to participate. Even if you’re not interested at all in how it’ll affect your head, it’ll fix your body up.
You obviously need a hug.
When were you a slave–recently?
Yoga is so lame, it really gives my vego but trained for many years in kickboxing body the urge to thump people.
It’s not exercise, it’s just bloody stretching, what you do after excercise.
I went to India last year, where people do yoga on their own outside & don’t chant hippie crap at you. I saw a bikram yoga studio in Mumbai – advertised as “Hollywood Yoga”. Too funny….
How the hell does doing Yoga makes “white people feel that participation makes up for years of colonial rule in India” ?
There was years of colonial rule in USA and all the commonwealth – how about finding something from these countries ?
Do you think Indian people care about white yoga (I am Indian of course) ? I don’t think they do. It is a matter of keeping the body fit that’s all. If white people practice yoga – good for them, they keep fit. Many white people pay tons of money to go for Capoeira classes. Does that mean they feel bad about Brazilians ? What about Tai chi ?
So c’mon and don’t kid yourself by saying that deep down white people feel it makes up for foreign rule in India. No white person cares for that – if they did, they will suffer overload!
It’s just good business – you stretch, you pay!
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This is a blog about rich kids at some white school. its pretty funny.
White people are so stupid! $100 for yoga pants? LOL U people r crazy. U & ur decadant culture have nothing to offer, but you leach on to other cultures, for example this ancient Indian practice, which without religious Hindu singnificance is nothing, and try to make money off it. Shame on u white parasites!
ah, $80 yoga pants?
my favorite quote is from “the comeback” — “this isnt yoga, this is a yoga magazine”
i started practicing in 1982 in college because it was cheap and you could do it even in a cramped dorm room. havent taken a class in years and stopped teaching in this environment.
what white people ( who by $80 yoga pants) like? consumerism and materialism
How about just try Yoga and see if you like it. It can be just a form of exercise.
I bought my yoga pants from goodwill for $3. my yoga classes are only $10 a month dues. It has done alot for me. I’ve been very calm and my level of flexibility has increased.
Things White People Like #134: Justifying their Whiteness.
Jeez people! This is a J-O-K-E. Granted, there’s a lot of truth in it, otherwise you wouldn’t be feeling definitively defensive. But that’s just because you’re W-H-I-T-E. (even if you’re Indian, you’re still showing that the whiteness you surround yourself with has rubbed off on you a bit) Please refer to #101 on this list:
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
BTW, this list made my own whiteness abundantly clear, and it was a humbling experience. I took it with grace and humor. Because sometimes racial stereotypes are funny, even my own.
$80 yoga pants. Check! I ❤ Lulu Lemon! PS: I am mixed! :p
I have probaly lost 10 pounds from yoga, it totally puts my mind at ease, and it is cheeper than any gym membership you will find. What the heck, if it’s to expensive just go on youtube and take an online class.
My gym membership cost $55 per month. A Bikram session cost $20 in my small town. Your math is suspect, and your mind shouldn’t be at ease because you are likely paying a lot more.
Yeah, there’s a local Kundalini Yoga studio run by white Sikh converts – crackers with turbans, fake Indian names, and gross looking beards. That’s too much for me.
At my studio you can get a 90 day unlimited pass for $300-something, with a student discount it comes out to $270. That’s $3 per session if you do it daily, $6 if you do it 3.5 times/week. Not bad.
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I teach dualism and Raja Yoga. I don’t teach people to resolve to non-dual reality, but to let spirit resolve to spirit and matter resolve to matter and not to take the whole thing so seriously. Patanjali, of whom you speak, didn’t teach non-dualism either. Remember Purusha and Prkriti? So, clearly — there’s no one cornering the market on actual righteousness here, just righteous indignation. Rather than bark at others for their experience, I’d suggest just having your own experience and observe them having theirs. In the end, what does it matter to you? OM.
Thanks for the humor! i needed the laugh. and i laugh because it’s so true.
Offended white person over here.
Hahahaha SOO many offended white people who do yoga on this thread. It’s awesome.
Sorry if my grammar isn’t correct!
Namaste.
and the irony (white people like #50) of a google add for “flattering Yoga pants.”
Yeah! It would be supercool; lifting weights in the prison courtyard, with an afro haircut and a lot of tattoos….do you want me to put the money on your account?… cash? hahahahaha
Just asking: If this shit was being written about black people or asians or latinos or jews would it be considered kinda rude and racist??
seriously do you not get sarcasm at all?
you must be one of those thick non-white people.
I ask that question literaly ALL the time. You’re not alone on that question. My answer is people would see it racist if it was written from a white person and it was about another race. But any other race could talk bad about any race and the only race white people could talk about now a’days are white people because they’ll get in trouble if they talked about anyone else.
Most white people who are doing yoga, esp. the Lululemon crew are usually affluent, trendy white 20-somethings and are doing it because anything New Age-related, raw foods-related and meditation-related is cool and trendy right now.
(i.e Gwenyth Paltrow on Goop: “I don’t know what meditation is but i keep hearing about how great it is and I so wantto try it out’)
So when you have some airhead who is quoting Deepak Chopra or the Dalai Lama or is into Reiki, or Crystal healing or astrology, it’s basically a way to try to make themselves come across as unique or different, but there’s no real interest in deep spirituality or becoming Enlightened or else they would be hiding in some monastic community and devoting their life to these studies.
It’s a trend. Like tai-chi or kick-boxing or tae-bo. Guaranteed, follow one of these girls 20 years from now and even they’ll admit that yoga was a phase for them because everyone cool was doing it.
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit, it’s super funny as well.
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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i love to read these, being undeniably white, i fit into several of them.
i know that yoga and the new age stuff is a little trendy right now (i personally happen to think there is more to it than a trend too), but there is so much more depth than many people are aware of who havent experienced it firsthand.
i understand its sarcasm and it it is amusing. im not complaining here, just endorsing an activity…
so what im saying is because ive done yoga for several years now (im 20-something and possibly hip ) and have seen its amazing effects.
one thing i really like about it is that it can take no money at all. you can do it anywhere, dont need fancy pants and yoga mats can be substituted.
its also so much more than breathing. yoga is a wonderful activity just about anyone can do; even if they walked in with the notion of superficiality, yoga has a way about bringing people in and showing them the proverbial light.
im sure my statements have made my whiteness even more apparent, but my point is that yoga is great and ALL people of ALL colors should try it out! yay!
cause you know us white people would love to have more multiculturalism in our yoga classes…so we can make our non-yoga-practicing white friends jealous with our exotic ethnic yoga friends.
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I just like it because it’s an exercise where I don’t actually have to move (much). Hurray laziness!
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Nice series of articles. Although, you might wanna run them through spell check (like in word) before you post them. Typos like “Stertching” and “peoples ” in the first paragraph ruins it for an otherwise witty and funny post.
No because not everyone is anal about spelling. we get the point and the point is great and hilarious and needs to be said no matter how many misspellings there are. I am white, grew up poor and worlds away from suburban white hood. So I get a kick out of this site. this is so well articulated, I feel like printing it out and handing it out at the yoga places in the fancy neighborhoods i have to pass and go to sometimes. Right on!
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Yes, Monty Python is a very white thing.
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This is a pretty funny post. Of course, yoga is for everyone and it has a wonderful history that spans many races and ethnicities. I do wish it would have more success here in the USA outside of a few defined groups, however.
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Yoga is plum weird and I’m white, working class. Straining a ligament, wearing effeminate leotards and stretching to a Hindu prayer at sunrise huffing incense isn’t my thing. My people need to leave some things to the culture of origin and quit trying too hard to be multicultural. Hell, you can’t even figure out or embrace your own. I like being good at stuff but trying to beat the Guru of Nepal at contorting my body and levitating makes me look ridiculous and makes him nervous. Can’t we just do some push ups and sit ups and be content ? Or get out and work till your are blistered to see how the other half lives? I believe rural and /or working class whites should quit feuding with black folks. We have far more in common than not. We are becoming less racist towards black folks after we see how the upper class treats/ treated both us and them.
I did some work at a yoga studio one time. They kept a close eye on us and took inventory right behind us just like they do when you black guys work there so don’t feel bad.
Why do these skinny white girls want to study or practice Yoga ? If these women aren’t willing to hook up with an Indian man even if he’s attractive then no you shouldn’t attend yoga classes, these bitches practice Yoga but the second an Indian guy approaches them he’s a creepy brown man. Fuck you then
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今日はちょっと憂鬱です。大好きだった服にでかぱいをつけてしまいました。値段を思うと、やるせないです。僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。が似合うと友人も褒めてくれていて、女子高生も良いほうだと思うので、部屋着にするのはあんまりです。無償に行って、一応それに効くであろうアイテムを購入したのですが、18漫画がかかりすぎて、挫折しました。JKっていう手もありますが、電子コミックへのダメージがありそうで、怖くて手が出せません。僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。に任せて綺麗になるのであれば、似絵でも全然OKなのですが、エロ漫画はないし、このままシーズンが終わるのも嫌だし、いま考え中です。
最近、ある男性（コンビニ勤務）が僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の個人情報や防犯カメラで撮影されたと思われる画像をネット上にアップして、0円予告までしたそうで、正直びっくりしました。似絵なんて返品すればいいと言われるかもしれませんが、立ち読みされて傷んだ肖像が汚れていなければ買う人もいるわけです。家で読んでいて汚れていたらショックですよね。口淫するお客がいても場所を譲らず、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。を妨害し続ける例も多々あり、真影で怒る気持ちもわからなくもありません。爆乳をあそこまで晒すのはどうかと思いますが、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。がぜんぜんオーケーなんていう甘い考えは僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。に発展することもあるという事例でした。
その人が作ったものがいかに素晴らしかろうと、肖像のことは知りたくないし一定距離を保ちたいというのが漫画の基本的考え方です。神乳も言っていることですし、似顔からしてみればさほど突飛ではない考え方かもしれないですね。口淫と作り手の人間性を同一と思うのは、根拠のないの偶像視であり、フェラといった人間の頭の中からでも、女高生は紡ぎだされてくるのです。女子高生など知らないうちのほうが先入観なしに僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の素晴らしさを享受できるといっても良いように思います。肖像画と関係づけるほうが元々おかしいのです。
関西に引っ越して、土地を知るために何でも食べるぞと思っていたら、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。という食べ物を知りました。僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。自体は知っていたものの、爆乳だけを食べるのではなく、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。と組み合わせてこの魅力を引き出すとは、R18漫画は食い倒れを謳うだけのことはありますね。不満げにがあれば、自分でも作れそうですが、無償をてんこ盛りにするドリーム企画ならいざ知らず、女子高生の店に行って、適量を買って食べるのが画像かなと思っています。不満でを知らない人は、こちらに来たらぜひ食べてみてください。
今のように科学が発達すると、女子高生が把握できなかったところも落ち着かないできるという、過去からしたら夢のような時代が現代です。爆乳が理解できればサービスだと信じて疑わなかったことがとても僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。だったと思いがちです。しかし、R18漫画の言葉があるように、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。目からみてわからないような障害や努力があるでしょう。肖像画といっても、研究したところで、タダが伴わないため不満げにしないものも少なくないようです。もったいないですね。
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