{"id":5606,"date":"2005-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/30\/2005-09-30-australia-s-men-getting-hooked-on-yoga\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"2005-09-30-australia-s-men-getting-hooked-on-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/30\/2005-09-30-australia-s-men-getting-hooked-on-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Men Getting Hooked on Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/fullstory.php?id=13949472\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, September 27, 2005: Increasing numbers of Australia&#8217;s famously macho men are showing surprising metrosexual tendencies, ditching competitive exercise for the meditative calm of yoga. &#8220;We are getting the rugby players, the body builders, the gym junkie guys,&#8221; says yoga teacher Duncan Peak, a former parachute officer and first-grade rugby player. &#8220;He now comes in here and gets humbled by the first posture.&#8221; International Yoga Teachers&#8217; Association president Moina Bower agrees men are now far more likely to be seen attempting downward dog poses on yoga mats than a few years ago. &#8220;Australian men generally perhaps in the past have looked at yoga as a bit sissy,&#8221; she says. Bower also believes the increase in men attending classes is part of a wider acceptance of the practice here, which has stretched as far as the Australian cricket team being accompanied by a yoga instructor during their 2004 tour of India.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sify.com SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, September 27, 2005: Increasing numbers of Australia&#8217;s famously macho men are showing surprising metrosexual tendencies, ditching competitive,&#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-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}