What The World Needs Now Is Pictures of Yoga, Sweet Pictures of Yoga

It’s not how you feel, it’s how you look.

Scrolling down my feed as I am wont to do, I’ve recently come to a sad conclusion: there are just not enough pictures of beautiful, highly fit and photogenic young people doing advanced Yoga poses out there.

Ask yourself: how are we ever going to change the world, make a healthier society, and lead people to strength and enlightenment without more half-naked, beautiful pictures of people doing tricky and impressive asanas?

Particularly white women- who are under-represented in this field.

My feed is inundated with pictures of people of colour, plus size models, octogenarians, and men with limited flexibility. More white women! Where are you?

And young too, please: where are the twentysomethings and thirtysomethings? The constant barrage of photos of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s gaining enlightenment through meditating in yogic postures is getting tiresome. You would think that Yoga was for just anybody, when from my experience the really succesfull yogis are fit, beautiful and young.

This is not well represented in what you actually see out there. Also- let’s be honest: very few of these pictures are sexy. Who wants to see you do yoga in sweatpants, or loose flowy clothing, or anything else which covers up that svelte yogi/yogini body?