Stuff bros like: football, prohibited chicks, drink pong, video games, Bud Light Platinums and, of course, yoga.
Wait…yoga?
That’s what Leila Burrows, co-founder of San Francisco-based yoga studio The Pad, is anticipating to supplement to a list with a new men-only “broga” category starting subsequent month.
“Our studio has a 75 percent womanlike population,” explained Burrows. “Guys can get intimidated when they’re in a room full of women wearing Lulumemon who can simply slip into all a poses. Guys like to do what they’re good at.”
The “broga” classes will underline an attractive, spandex-clad womanlike yoga instructor, a tough rockin’ soundtrack and a slight of poses privately designed for dudes, who tend to be stronger though significantly reduction stretchable than women.
“The whole category will be geared toward environment adult group for success,” Burrows said. “But, yoga is not gender-specific, it’s meant to move a clarity of calm, assent and clarity.”
She remarkable once a lot of group overcome that initial turn of discomfort, they tend to not usually have fun, though find their yoga also brings advantages to other sports like running, snowboarding and weightlifting.
The Pad is charity a array of 4 60-minute, men-only classes during a newly stretched Marina studio commencement in early Feb and will afterwards cruise either to offer them on a permanent basis.
“Broga” classes have started to widespread around a nation in new years after a Broga studio non-stop in Massachusetts directed during removing some-more group meddlesome in yoga.
Today Health explains a small some-more of what Broga entails:
Familiar denunciation is used and little, if any, Sanskrit. There’s informed song in a background, maybe some Radiohead, Bob Dylan and The Black Keys — and not an Eastern soundtrack.
And there’s a opposite vibe: There’s small anxiety to a devout side of yoga, nonetheless some-more modernized classes might go there if participants are prepared for it.
In 2011, a hotel nearby San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf hosted a discussion exclusively focusing on yoga for men with a tagline, “What if we could be some-more male than Hugh Hefner, some-more encouraged than Tony Robbins, calmer afterwards Buddha and cooler than James Bond?”
“Broga” has been flourishing so fast that London-based CollinsDictionary.com named it as one of a tip difference of 2012, along with “Superstorm” and “Fiscal Cliff.”
Check out this video detailing Broga: