Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Yoga with dogs gaining in popularity
Alright, we admit, we don't get to the gym nearly as much as we should. But we do send our $35 every month. But if we could bring our dogs...
The New York Times recently published a story that said yoga with dogs is gaining in popularity. It's called doga and yoga traditionalists are concerned that it is trivializing yoga.
Ludicrous? Possibly. Grist for anyone who thinks that dog-owners have taken yoga too far? Perhaps. But nationwide, classes of doga — yoga with dogs, as it is called — are increasing in number and popularity. Since Ms. Caliendo, a certified yoga instructor in Chicago, began to teach doga less than one year ago, her classes have doubled in size.
Not everyone in the yoga community is comfortable with this.
“Doga runs the risk of trivializing yoga by turning a 2,500-year-old practice into a fad,” said Julie Lawrence, 60, a yoga instructor and studio owner in Portland, Ore. “To live in harmony with all beings, including dogs, is a truly yogic principle. But yoga class may not be the most appropriate way to express this.”
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