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The traditional yoga has stood the test of time. The Neo-Yoga is fragile to begin with, you need an artificial environment for those "hot"-yoga stuff. Any good

The traditional yoga has stood the test of time. The Neo-Yoga is fragile to begin with, you need an artificial environment for those "hot"-yoga stuff. Any good exercise should be accessible, the american "peleton" way of doing things is at best gimmiky. The only redeeming quality of neo-yoga is its much accessible, given the profitability aspect of it. For maximum return of value stick to the traditional, if it is accessible to you.

mekoka 7y ago
Standing the test of time implies that you're doing something right, it doesn't mean that you've reached the pinnacle. I absolutely agree with you that the accessibility of traditional yoga translates into tremendous value, I also would admit that "neo-yoga", as you called it, seems exploitative to me. I would not go as far as claiming to know all of its benefits.
- sremani 7y ago
  Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal. "Neo"-Yoga greatly misses on the mental aspects, and reduces a comprehensive system to a physical training. But, even in this diminished form its better than many alternatives. That was the point. I do not consider "neo"-yoga exploitative, I just consider it neo-mania, appealing to our urge for novelty.
  - mekoka 7y ago
    > Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal. How do you think these refinements happen, if not by trial and error? You don't just discover the right way to do something, you more likely also find a few wrong ways in the process. If there's one thing history has taught us about innovation it's that it happens in the most unlikely of places. You know what else have gone through multiple refinements over millennia? Pleiades of religions that claim to successfully usher our spirituality. Are they wrong, are they right? Who knows? What I'm observing is that the world is still here waiting for something better.

mekoka 7y ago

Standing the test of time implies that you're doing something right, it doesn't mean that you've reached the pinnacle. I absolutely agree with you that the accessibility of traditional yoga translates into tremendous value, I also would admit that "neo-yoga", as you called it, seems exploitative to me. I would not go as far as claiming to know all of its benefits.

sremani 7y ago
Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal. "Neo"-Yoga greatly misses on the mental aspects, and reduces a comprehensive system to a physical training. But, even in this diminished form its better than many alternatives. That was the point. I do not consider "neo"-yoga exploitative, I just consider it neo-mania, appealing to our urge for novelty.
- mekoka 7y ago
  > Something that stands 1000 years has gone through multiple refinements. It may or may not be pinnacle, but any twist has high probability to making it sub-optimal than optimal. How do you think these refinements happen, if not by trial and error? You don't just discover the right way to do something, you more likely also find a few wrong ways in the process. If there's one thing history has taught us about innovation it's that it happens in the most unlikely of places. You know what else have gone through multiple refinements over millennia? Pleiades of religions that claim to successfully usher our spirituality. Are they wrong, are they right? Who knows? What I'm observing is that the world is still here waiting for something better.