By any stretch: Mumils dilute yoga's essence
06 July 2015 - 02:08
Mumil. You may not know the name - because I just invented it - but you know her. She's the middle-aged mum in Lycra. She's at the school gate in leggings, an 18-piece bra top and neon-laced trainers. Yoga bag in hand, she'll be doing "discreet" stretches as you wait for the bell to go.Since it first arrived in the West, courtesy of Swami Vivekananda, yoga has been subject to all of our best commercialising and self-indulgent instincts.
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