🧘 Hot Yoga Instructor Sacked For Scolding Influencer For Drinking Water

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. So I've been reading an
article in the New York Times about a very small story,
you'd think, but it sums up everything about our influencers,
society and where we are. This is a bicram yoga
class in New York, and bikram yoga is a ninety
minute class. It's quite a specific class. The room is heated.

(00:21):
Many yoga rooms are, but this is a particular style
of yoga. As I said, it's called bikram yoga, and
it's a ninety minute class. During this ninety minute class,
twenty minutes in, this woman who happens to be an
influencer with millions of followers, reaches down and she breaks
her pose, takes a sip of water. The instructor says,

(00:44):
I'd rather you didn't do that right now. Why don't
you wait to the designated halfway through mark, Because when
bicram yoga, you're taken through a series of moves, and
it says here that you're encouraged to refrain from drinking
in this style of yoga until half an hour in.
Usually once they reach a particular pose called the eagle pose.

(01:05):
So she hadn't waited, she wanted a drink of water.
The proponent, the instructor says, you don't get the best
benefits from this if you drink water outside those prescribed times. Right,
what about the down with dog? Where does that fit in?
I don't know if that's big from momma. I'm absolutely
not sure. But in this era of obsessive hydration, this

(01:26):
has been a big story. So this woman is told,
I prefer it if you didn't take a drink right now.
This woman, her Fyonce, is doing the class with her.
Doesn't say anything to the instructor, but she leaves the
class and she then gets on her phone and does
a rant. This is why it's everything about modern society.
So she does a rant and she says, let me

(01:49):
try and find it here that the instructor had bullied her,
called her out in front of everyone and said it's
not time to drink water. I'll let you know when
you can drink water. I don't want you to drink water.
So two million users see this, see this rant of
hers and other people. Of course, as I said, everyone
needs to be uberhydrated at all times. Says, how dare
they stop you drinking water? There's such outrage about this,

(02:13):
that the instructor is sacked. Really yeah, And the instructor says,
I didn't bully her. I just said, if you can
refrain to but your own free will, do what you like.
The instructor is sacked, and the story has just got
bigger and bigger. So this one phrase in this really
stuck with me because you'd think, well, you know, take
or leave. We're doing a bit from yoga plaster. If
you want to have a sip, do it. The instructor

(02:35):
probably shouldn't tell her not to. But the story now
has ended in the instructors getting a sack, and she
has said, you are seeing this new era young people
having a very hard time being told what to do.
So there are strict instructions that go around this Bickram
set of moves, and being told what to do doesn't
suit anyone anymore. And also, rather than just being annoyed

(02:57):
and leaving, she has a rant on her phone form.
You know two million people see it. Instructor gets sad,
doesn't go to the person has ran on, that's right,
says nothing to the instructor herself, and the the Bickram
studio the next day, having seen her comments, sort of
tried to make light of it, saying, sorry, we don't
mean to you know, that's not our intention. If you
want to have a sip, that's okay. But by then

(03:18):
the damage had been done. Generation So what happened is
started as a very small story a woman doing a
yoga class having a sip of water being uncomfortable when
she was asked not to, has blown up into this giant,
long article in the New York Times because it sums
up everything about both sides of where we are. Can't
tell them anything, can't tell them anything, but in this

(03:38):
as what I love the expression. In this age of
obsessive hydration. You and I grew up without ever having
a sip of water. I don't, and I never measured
and I never measured my protein. Today people spend most
of their diet their day weighing protein. You, how do
you even do that? Every single food influencer is saying

(04:00):
this is great for you, and protein is good for us.
Here's how many calories it is, Here's how much protein
you're getting. We're all obsessed water and protein. I look
at Gemi Raye. He measures his grain waves every day.
I love grain mum his Mum packed his little lunch
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