{"id":231,"date":"2000-11-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/14\/2000-11-14-disco-yoga-fad-or-fact\/"},"modified":"2000-11-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-14T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-14-disco-yoga-fad-or-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/14\/2000-11-14-disco-yoga-fad-or-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco Yoga &#8211; Fad Or Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Independent (London), November 12, 2000<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND: The latest exercise fad, Disco Yoga, originates in America at Gold&#8217;s Fitness Center on Lafayette Street, where the &#8220;Thursday Night Fever&#8221; Disco Yoga class is packed with New Yorkers in pursuit of the perfect body. For a high-energy 60 minutes, instructor Trixie takes the class on a &#8220;disco trip with dynamic flowing yoga poses,&#8221; using mainly soul and funk music. You might expect yoga purists to react with horror, but they can see the benefits of a combined discipline. &#8220;As long as the teacher is experienced in yoga practice,&#8221; says Simon Low, of London&#8217;s Triyoga yoga centre. &#8220;with beginners understanding the basic principles of yoga before trying Disco Yoga, to prevent long term damage.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Independent (London), November 12, 2000 LONDON, ENGLAND: The latest exercise fad, Disco Yoga, originates in America at Gold&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}