Yoga and male culture

[colby]

I work in software and we have a yoga instructor come in once a week for classes - which we gender-segregate, but there are enough students in both the mens and womens classes to keep it going (though we have a LOT more men than women at our company, so it's like 90% of the women and 10% of the men that attend ). Some of the guys still get SERIOUS crap every time from other guys for doing yoga, despite being in a "modern" industry. The guys that do the yoga, thankfully, could care less.

It seems like our more gender-mixed groups tolerate it better, and the groups that are all men or almost all men end up with much more of a macho culture. Seems also to depend on their management - if their management is more participatory in the macho thing, it's much worse. None of our departments are exclusively male, but some are one-woman shows or the women are only peripherally involved.

Anyway... yoga rules

[bounceswoosh]

There's a yoga class at my climbing gym, and it's well-attended by both genders. I guess climbers are already somewhat counter-culture, though ...

There was a stretching class for a while at work, which was sort of yoga-inspired but not officially yoga, and mostly women attended, although we did have a few guys who showed up.

[firenze11]

Hmm, you know I took yoga in Uni for 3 years and I only ever had one guy in my class.

Although I knew some who went to Bikram yoga, loved it, and weren't afraid of telling people about it, maybe it seems more macho if you sweat a lot?

I wish more men would take yoga classes, I'd like that.