Lululemon, purveyor of crotch-flashing yoga wear, is looking for a new CEO after Christine Day stepped down this week. They placed an ad looking for the position that is looking for someone who will "wear The Mansy to lead our company-wide morning chant and kombucha ritual" to lead their company. They're joking ... we hope?
When the world learned that the would-be lieutenant governor had written that yoga could leave you vulnerable to Satan, it seemed the world finally had a brave leader who would take a stand against hideous yoga fashion and smelly hot studios and Lululemon princesses. But no. An unusual 45-minute press conference revealed all.
The workout clothing giant's instantly notorious see-through bottoms have been replaced on shelves, but that apparently wasn't enough to save CEO Christine Day from the rare national athletic-gear controversy and her "bend over" test comments amidst it.
The candidate for Virginia lieutenant governor has a lot of opinions — especially on gays, like that they are "ikky" — that have made him more famous than you might expect. On Wednesday, we learned that Jackson's book warns that yoga can put you at risk for satanic possession.
Two and a half months after recalling the entirety of its see-through workout pants, Lululemon has returned the scandalous leggings in question to its shelves. We put them to the test.
As if a story about women's butts couldn't get any more tantalizing, Lululemon CEO Christine Day more or less just asked the owners of the struggling workout-wear company's defective yoga pants to bend over in skin-tight, possibly see-through leggings and have someone inspect their butts.
Lululemon tried to make a scapegoat out of the Taiwanese company that manufactured a recent batch of see through yoga pants. Bad idea. Said supplier is now suggesting that Lululemon made the whole thing up.
Over the weekend overpriced yoga pants peddler Lululemon announced that it wouldn't be able to sell an entire batch of bottoms, after some manufacturing glitch made them too thin (read: see-through).
"The kids who are opting out are getting teased and bullied ... We have one little girl whose classmates told her her parents are stupid because she opted out. That’s not supposed to happen in our schools," argues attorney Dean Broyles while explaining why yoga should be kept out of public schools.
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The yoga business can be as cutthroat as any other, and the battle de jour this time is over pants. Specifically, Lululemon is accusing Calvin Klein of having ripped off a signature waistband.
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A number of commenters were miffed by the news that a yoga instructor was recently fired for her no-phones-during-class policy. It's not only inconsiderate, they argued, it's defeating the whole purpose—how do you expect to clear your mind and cleanse your body while manically checking your inbox?
A yoga instructor reportedly lost her job teaching classes on Facebook's campus, because of her overly strict policy of insisting that students not use cellphones during class.
For your morning mystery, The New York Times' Fernanda Santos brings an arduously reported story of a man's death in the Arizona desert after he and his wife were expelled from a silent, three-year yoga retreat.
Discovered: Why we see the man in the moon, yoga is good for our health, a new species of shark and the first ever image of atoms forming molecules.
Today in sports: Peyton Hillis considered dumping the Cleveland Browns for The Company, U.S. soccer finally shows Italy who's boss, and the bidding war for the right to draft Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III could be wrapping up early.
Once upon a time, the airport was where you waited to take a plane to go somewhere. Now it's a place where you can make yourself at home, and live for years, if you're so inclined.
The New York Times Magazine has posted an expose on "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," detailing rib and back injuries of yoga practices gone awry. We discuss.
Players: Bikram Choudhury, the multi-millionaire creator of the very popular, brand-named, sweat-filled, inferno-facilitated Bikram Yoga practice; Gregory Gumucio, a one-time right hand man to Choudhury who now heads up Yoga to the People, a boho, hippy-ish yoga company determined to make yoga affordable to everyone.
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