[lbo-talk] Yoga making inroads into dragon land quietly

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Wed Oct 26 11:43:30 PDT 2005



> > Maybe not. Most of the young chinese women I know
> > think tai qi is for grandmothers and wouldn't be
> > caught dead in the park at 6AM anyway. Apparently
> you
> > do Yoga when you're young to improve your
> figure...
> >
>
> Huh?! Have these women taken a look at old B.K?
>
> http://www.iynaus.org/images/daily/vrksasana.jpg
>

anyway my point was that tai qi, at least where i live, means a few dozen grandmothers gathering at 6 AM in a mountaintop public park to practice tai qi next to the vegetable market, keeping time to taiwanese folk music from a portable radio. By and large this is not something that young women are interested in.

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