Power yoga: how money has changed a spiritual pursuit
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“These are very competitive guys,” says John Capouya, author of the book Real
Men Do Yoga . “Everyone is smart, everyone works a million hours a day
and they do yoga to give them a mental sharpness. They think, ‘I’ll trade
bonds better and I’ll make more money than the other guy if I do it.’”
If anything, today’s uncertain economic climate has meant it’s even more
important to have something extra in your armoury.
Gross, who practices at 8.30am every day at a hotel across the street from his
office in California, credits yoga with giving him the focus and clarity of
thought to sift through the hubbub of noise that swirls around the financial
markets. Some of his best ideas, he told the New York Times in 2009,
come when he’s standing on his head.
“Very ambitious, high-achieving people realise that there’s something in yoga
that is useful to them,” says instructor Tara Fraser, who, with her partner,
Nigel Jones, runs the Yoga Junction studio in north London. “It’s not weird,
not hippy. If you’re a man, the fact that you do yoga shows that you’re in
touch with your intuitive side and you’re flexible as well as strong.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk