{"id":1326,"date":"2005-04-08T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1326"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:32:31","slug":"hiphop_yoga_its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/hiphop_yoga_its\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-hop yoga: It&rsquo;s about fucking time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/050407\/ids_photos_wl\/ra65131208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/russellSimmons100x176.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"176\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Everyone holding their breath over a hip-hop version of yoga can finally exhale:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>(Russell) Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, released a video series\non Wednesday titled, &ldquo;Yoga Live&rdquo;, with instructions set to 72 tracks\nof original hip-hop music &#8212; sounds that might have jarred the yogis of bygone\ndays. Simmons said he tried to distil the spiritual from the physical in his\ntapes. &ldquo;We packaged it intentionally in a way for people to digest the physical\npractice,&rdquo; he told Reuters. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not meant to get them worried about\nreligion or spirituality.&rdquo; [Reuters\/Yahoo!]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to eliminate such worrisome items from yoga, as potential\ncustomers are already expected to have 99 problems (the bitch not being one,\nof course). <\/p>\n\n<p>Reuters\/Yahoo!: <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=857&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/nm\/oukoe_life_yoga\">Yoga goes hip-hop as marketing takes hold<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone holding their breath over a hip-hop version of yoga can finally exhale: (Russell) Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, released a video series on Wednesday titled, &ldquo;Yoga Live&rdquo;, with instructions set to 72 tracks of original hip-hop music &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/hiphop_yoga_its\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}