The Evolving Body Image Of Yoga

 When you Google the word “yoga,” the image of the subject you see on the Internet is all too similar. You're likely to see tall, bent Caucasian people, especially women, folded into pretzel-like poses. But, except for the usual Indian guru, this trend has been the aspirational body image that today's yoga industry brings. Still, things are changing. If you sit back and observe what has actually been happening with the popularization of yoga over the past two years, you will see that the way yoga is presented in the media is evolving at a very surprising rate as reality. demographics of practitioners. Let's be realistic. Moving around town with a yoga mat slung over your shoulder wasn't ideal in the past. Recently, that has changed. Although yoga has existed in the Western world for several years, the massive popularization of the practice is only growing. For much of mainstream yoga in the Western world, it was a practice for the privileged. Today, everyone practices yoga

. In fact, it is offered to people of all socio-economic categories, bringing diversity to the practice and promoting the opportunity for people of all sizes, colors, and shapes to become tenants in the public eye. It is a well-known fact that many of the practitioners highlighted in yoga publications are still tall. If you look at any yoga magazine, you will see men, people of all colors, and women of all sizes and shapes making their way into the mainstream media. But, new styles of yoga practice are being formed to match different body types, spiritual practices, and preferences. This is what helps cultivate new leaders within the community. Call to action It is time for the yoga community to spread the message of yoga to the world. It's time to come out of the yoga closet. We need to learn how to use social media and marketing to spread the word about yoga to the rest of the world. Only in this way can we shape the face of yoga to the rest of the world and tell them about the benefits of the practice.