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Article: Punk rock yoga is the latest fitness craze
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2004
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SEATTLE (AP) -- The guitarist plugs in his amp, and the yoga
instructor strips off her baggy skull-patterned boxers to reveal
black bike shorts.
They both warm up for the latest twist on an ancient practice:
punk rock yoga.
Power yoga, baby yoga, kickboxing yoga, and now this. Has yoga
fusion finally gone too far? After all, yoga is a spiritual
discipline aimed at creating a sense of deep quiet and inner peace,
while punk rock is all about being undisciplined and LOUD.
It makes sense to instructor Kimberlee Jensen.
"It's the whole do-it-yourself ethic," said Jensen, 34. "Punk is
democratic, nonhierarchical -- that's definitely the way I like to
approach it."
Her free, weekly classes are held ...