2008 Archives: My Yoga Online
It seems like everyone has White Rabbit Syndrome these days. You know, like the perpetually late bunny from Alice in Wonderland who’s constantly running around checking his watch? It’s as if we’ve scheduled ourselves down to the millisecond and the instant anything runs over, a whole day of appointments comes down like a house of cards. A beep from your Blackberry can keep the cards up, but boy do those beeps take a toll on your daily stress level.
Even exercise is streamlined to fit into a lunch-hour sized box on your calendar, like the super-intensive, time-saving kettleball workouts that are currently in vogue and promise to deliver in 10 minutes the kind of results you get from 60 in the gym (so you can spend the next 50 stressing about whether or not you’ll make it to your post-workout coffee meeting).
And although yoga is truly the antidote to WRS, what with everyone breathing and visualizing and just stopping the habitrail in general, we’re hard-pressed to find anyone other than a professional yoga teacher who can spare the two-hours-plus that it takes to get to a studio and back again for a 90-minute class, not to mention the dangers of driving while on a post-yoga high. (There should be a ticket for that. Really.)
So we were intrigued by the idea of My Yoga Online, which streams yoga (hatha, power, pre- and post-natal, flow or Kundalini), Pilates and meditation videos so you can take your workout anywhere your computer goes. There’s a no-contract membership at $9.95 a month—a steal if you consider most yoga classes cost $12 and up—and you can view as many videos as you want, any time and anywhere. We viewed the sample video (taught by a nicely-muscled ringer for Bryan Kest) and were so inspired that we moved the chairs out of the six-by-12 cell otherwise known as EcoStiletto headquarters, rolled out a mat, and squeezed in a fair amount of deep breathing between conference calls.
And guess what? No cards came tumbling down.
