My Type A Personality Destroys All Broken Down Egos

What I hate most about NewAge is all the lying about what they're up to (they really can't help themselves, they tell so many) here's another one on that well-known "exercise," yoga:

“Here’s the catch, and here’s the reason not to do Ashtanga: That ego of yours is going to get broken down. When I explained on the Shasta retreat all the physical benefits I’d discovered from Ashtanga, I didn’t mention the — how best to put it? — subtle body changes. You know what I’m talking about: 

The desire to avoid eating meat. 

The growing interest in the other seven limbs of Ashtanga, especially the yamas and niyamas. 

Perhaps a toning down of the Type A personality you’ve been fighting all your life. 

A curiosity about that Ram, Sita or Krishna person you keep hearing about. 

A rising desire to visit India. 

I’m sure there are others,...”

I'm sure there are. And why would I be "hearing about" various Indian spiritual deities when we're only harmlessly exercising? Or all of a sudden going to India? 

Uh-huh. Sure.

 What this inarticulate dummy (that's a list of "body changes"?) is describing is really cult indoctrination. To an "open" cult, but still a cult. And the changes aren't always what's expected:

Because yoga ain't exercise,...

 

Oh Boy - Right Again!!!

"I practiced Ashtanga faithfully from 2005 until this year (even taught it for a period of time), when for reasons that I cannot even yet articulate, I found myself growing inexplicably repelled by it. I like to say 'I threw myself out of the cult.' But in truth, I didn't so much throw myself out as find myself slowly edging out the door, not sure that I would never return, only to find myself not wanting to return,...I was a card carrying member of the Ashtanga cult, after all. Now, since I've managed to extricate myself and find some balance in what was always, essentially, my workout routine (that's right, for me, the 'ugly' truth is that the yoga has always been, first and foremost, a workout for me), I feel kind of embarrassed about that."

-- Lauren Cahn, making clear - as I have repeatedly - that yoga is about cultural influence, mind control and a sex racket (why would it be "ugly" to admit she thought of it as a workout routine, when it isn't, otherwise?) and openly calling it a "cult", in The Huffington Post.