Discovered today one of the new safety officers at work (also volunteer firefighter), is a real yoga practitioner for past 8 years. And he looks fit-wiry.

He reminisced about some other workplace experiences, in northern Alberta and B.C. in the oil exploration areas, where workplace was more cowboy male traditional dominant.

When some of the guys first found out he practiced yoga, they ostracized him. He had to prove his male "normality" to the cowboy-oil worker yahoos, by showing them he also did...judo and karate. And to make yoga more acceptable, he suggested to them: "Look if you want to meet women...."

Though things are less sharply male vs. female divided in a hostile way, it would be HIGHLY unusual to see guy(s) practicing yoga where we are at construction site.

Soccer is more the preferred game to chat or watch. Or hockey.