"I am a Yogini", no go on really say that with a serious face...

The other day it came to my attention that there is a prevalence in the Yoga community for taking themselves very seriously, and I wondered why that is.  Then I was flicking through my facebook feed last night and I noticed that the Yoga Journal (an oh-so-serious-bastion-of-high-yoganess) had an article entitled "Yoga with a sense of humour".  As it was 10:30 at night and I was heading home from work (ironic, yes) I wasn't in the mood, however it is now Friday afternoon and I decided to take a look.

The article wasn't up to much (http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/2011/08/yoga-with-a-sense-of-humor.html), however click on the link to the duo in question's opening gambit... and see below, it really made me chuckle.

"Look at me I'm on a mutherf@ck'n waterfall"

The posts come from a couple who operate under the Pseudonym "Yoga TM" and are the partnership behind the movie The Yogi.  Both Yoga practitioners they saw the irony in receiving a speeding ticket because you were running late for Yoga class, and barging people out of the way to get to a favored spot in the shala.  

Damman and Thomas describe their project called the Yogi tm as a "Yoga positive feature comedy about several fictitious yoga posers competing in the Pose Off of the Century." 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/156528033/the-yogitm