Yoga Competition Championship Performance - Huiping Mo 莫慧萍，中国

[Gary98854]

She is execllent at YOGA. My ex was excellent too. She would do it in my appt.

[mimirom]

How a beautiful Dancer pose, never seen it this way before.

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[jb1552]

Did she used to be a ballet dancer? The way she moves her body makes me think so, but I don't know for sure.

[shantifitness]

yep, very observant. her ballet vids are posted too.

[jb1552]

Okay thank you.

[rforce1]

YOGA! RULES!!!

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[chrismo1984]

yoga competitions have been around for hundreds of years starting in India. its not a competition with others but moreso with yourself. i competed in the NY competition this year and it was one of the greatest and most friendly experiences I have ever had.

[annwe6]

Just because 'yoga' competitions have been around for 100's of years doesn't make them yoga. Whether with yourself or others competition is competition - it is not yoga. Yoga means union with the divine, or the practice which leads to that goal, and nothing else. The goal is not to win a competition.

[Improviz]

Uh, aren't "yoga" and "competition" mutually exclusive??????

[mjufpn]

haha I read it first time as huping yoga.

[anazncat]

that is quite creepy. I thought yoga is all about spirituality. How can one feel spiritual if you are being stared at by so many people? Plus, im sure there are men in the audience that have no appreciation for yoga and is there just to watch this girl so they can fantasize as they watch. GROSS! i would never. Sorry but no thanks.

[finisher77]

Who the hell asked you to rant about your prudish hangups?

[lizza66]

I agree that it is creepy. Like why did she have to do quarter turns before she started? It's like they are evaluating her body, not her skill. And before finisher 77 gives me a black eye for expressing my thoughts, I'm just saying, I just don't see how it fits with all the "let go of the ego" stuff I read about in yoga. If the venue is the Miss America pagent, then it fits, you expect it. but yoga?

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[cutecutesweetie]

so scary!!!

[BigApple0987654321]

dude its not that hard to keep a camera still

[llivi]

ez hülyeség. meg nem is esztétikus. szerintem.

[tman007]

Not meaning to take anything away from the very elegant and beautiful Huiping Mo but I think the competition format is a necessary evil that is creeping into yoga at an international level because it creates elites that legitimizes one's "guru" status thereby giving that yogi practioneer a money making liscence.

Given the profiteering potential, the question is... how can yoga stop of protect itself from commercialism?

I wonder what others say...it is worth comment if not serious debate.

[mrovantes]

I think it's worth something to be said. I mean, I'm all for yoga (can't do it myself for sure) and totally respect the ability/training/strength it takes for most of the poses, but isn't yoga about calm and balance? I just don't get how a "yoga competition" fits within all this. I would imagine the competitive edge would come out in people and would create tenision. But who knows? Maybe the yogi like that stuff. Not taking away from the competitors at all, I'm just wondering.

[mallimom]

Unfortunately when competition occurs evils must come out. I hope most yogi's don't forget when competing about the spritual and moral disciplines the yoga sutras teach. I do think that for yoga to get more popular, especially in america, something must be done to make it more mainstream. I like to see ESPN cover a yoga competition.

[k9henrydog]

Yoga cannot be competitive, or even exhibitionist.  A class should pay its yoga teacher enough for a bowl of rice (or sufficient daily nuitrition)....anything else is not yoga.

[mjufpn]

good lord what?!

[iheartpringles]

wow...truly astonished! imagine all the training and the dedication--!

[bubblestar]

WOW the last pose was amazing! Keep it up! And I didnt know you could compete in yoga and kinda do it to thos extremes it was like ballet when she did the arabesque!!!

xxx

[notlikethem]

didnt know you could compete in yoga

[Jamazio]

This was the Championship winning performance in the World Yoga Asana Championship Bisnhu Charan Ghosh Cup in Los Angeles in February 2005. See http://www.yogaexpo.com/progra­m/arles_gallery/index.html

for more pictures.

[enigmagurl5]

Wow...very nice