Yoga has become a nation wide phenomenon. With am yoga, power yoga, flexibility yoga, heat yoga, seniors yoga, childrens yoga, there’s a yoga for everyone and the family dog. With the help of companies like Gaiam, and Lulu lemon yoga has not only become an easy exercise to start but it has also become very fashionable.
Unfortunately, the meditation has been pulled out of yoga for commercial use. Turning it into a way to shape, tone and burn of those extra calories yoga has become more of a means to get the body of Jennifer Aniston, then a way to find peace in ones self. No one is saying that having a fit, healthy body is a bad idea or that working out in a gym is instant commercialism, just that yoga should also bring a tranquil state of mind with its physically demanding routine.
There are still great teachers out there that practice a more traditional yoga, whether it be vinyasa, kabbalah or one of the many other renditions. Everyone just needs to be careful on finding their instructor making sure that they get the one that best suits their goals and helps ease the mind, release the bodies tension back to the earth, and calm your breathing.

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