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IRebel Yoga
James Estrin/The New York Times
Tara Stiles, who attracted a following with YouTube yoga videos, says, “My life is a bunch of people inside the computer.” At right, in her studio in NoHo.
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Published: January 21, 2011

TARA Stiles does not talk about sacred Hindu texts, personal intentions or chakras. She does not ask her yoga classes to chant. Her language is plainly Main Street: chaturangas are push-ups, the “sacrum” the lower back. She dismisses the ubiquitous yoga teacher-training certificates as rubber stamps, preferring to observe job candidates in action.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/ny...sq=yoga&st=cse
Have you actually watched any of Tara Stiles' videos? I ran across her a few months ago by accident was immediately put off. The video was billed as a "beginner" class, but she was moving at lightening speed and went immediately into some advanced poses without any degree of warm up. She was also barely dressed and as thin as a rail. She's just not my thing. Granted, Indianapolis's yoga scene is likely very different from New York's so perhaps the significance of her rebellion is lost on me. She just seems contrived to me.