{"id":745,"date":"2011-12-07T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omsweetom\/?p=745"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:01:59","slug":"leaving-lululemon-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omsweetom\/2011\/12\/leaving-lululemon-behind.html","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Lululemon behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I never bought into the Lululemon fan club. \u00a0Granted, they do have some rather stylish workout and yoga attire. \u00a0But by the end of my seven mile run, hour training session, or 90 minute Ashtanga class, no amount of Lululemon is going to make me look stylish.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Plus, something about $100 butt shaping yoga pants just didn\u2019t seem to gel with my idea of yoga. \u00a0It just seemed counter-intuitive to be worried about the shape of my butt while practicing a Hindu practice aimed at calming the mind and preparing me for spiritual growth. \u00a0It\u2019s already challenging enough to completely focus on my own breathing, concentration, and balance and not notice the girl next to me who effortlessly slips into <em>Garbha Pindasana<\/em>, while I struggle not to comically topple over and bruise myself.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Then I read about Lululemon\u2019s seaweed cloth which turned out to be well, overpriced cotton when tested by the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/14\/business\/14seaweed.html?adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1323274378-ANDcOrR3LQL2IOSp\/7bucQ\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>. As if those weren\u2019t reasons enough for me to avoid entering the store, I just ran across this piece in the Huffington Post that provides more fodder to keep me out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stewart-j-lawrence\/when-yogis-kill-the-grisl_b_1077457.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stewart-j-lawrence\/when-yogis-kill-the-grisl_b_1077457.html<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never bought into the Lululemon fan club. \u00a0Granted, they do have some rather stylish workout and yoga attire. \u00a0But by the end of my seven mile run, hour training session, or 90 minute Ashtanga class, no amount of Lululemon is going to make me look stylish. &nbsp; Plus, something about $100 butt shaping yoga&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leaving Lululemon behind - Om Sweet Om<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omsweetom\/2011\/12\/leaving-lululemon-behind.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leaving Lululemon behind - Om Sweet Om\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I never bought into the Lululemon fan club. \u00a0Granted, they do have some rather stylish workout and yoga attire. \u00a0But by the end of my seven mile run, hour training session, or 90 minute Ashtanga class, no amount of Lululemon is going to make me look stylish. &nbsp; 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