Here are my predictions for the state of yoga for 2012!
1. MRT, Metabolic Resistance Training, will hit yoga. MRT is anytime you use supersets or circuits and train with an elevated heart rate and insufficient recovery---think fast Sun Salutations and lots of them---Ashtanga!
2. Arial/hammock/trapeze/swing/hanging yoga will be showing up in more studios and draw a whole new crowd in the doors.
3. Hot classes will continue become the norm and get hotter.
4. More and more mainstream products will be marketed directly to yoga practitioners----remember coconut water?
5. Yoga teacher trainings and the certification money machines will dry up. You are your own guru.
6. The go to diet will be raw, gluten free, and vegan.
7. More yoga classes will be shorter, 30-40 minutes.
8. There will be Personal Trainers that advertise and exclusively use yoga for training.
9. High School sports teams will require yoga classes like they used to require time in the weight room.
10. Yogis, including me, will have better intentions because the road to hell is paved with good ones.
Have the happiest year ever!
Namaste,
Dean
