Yoga classes can be a place to relax, decompress, recover, smile and even laugh. While numerous yoga enthusiasts recall reaping the benefits of the mind-body system's gentle smiling and occasional in-class laugh of joy, one stand-up comedian recently reported having a laughable but decidedly not Dahn Yoga-esque experience.
In an article in the Huffington Post, writer and funnyman Max Fox recounted a yoga class in which he simply could not find a way to relax.
Fox's account includes being overheated, embarrassingly inflexible, unfamiliar with posture nomenclature and one of the only men in the room.
Many comic depictions of yoga use these devices, since a long-standing stereotype of the regimen is that only the most devoted and limber women engage in communal meditation classes.
In Dahn Yoga, this idea of yoga could hardly be further from the truth. No experience is required to join the classes offered in the program's many community centers across the the country, nor is flexibility a prerequisite.
Likewise, Dahn Yoga promotes diversity and interpersonal connections, which is why men and women of all ages may be found practicing relaxation techniques and posing together in the program's large, accepting classes.
