Why Yoga is for Men too... Introducing BROGA

I find it funny that Americans by and large think that yoga is for women.
Women have embraced yoga here in the West, but Yoga was originally developed in India for men. Specifically for the elite and their teen male children. They wanted to keep the 13-year-old boys from thinking about girls, so they wore them out with complicated and very physical yoga sequences.
For many years, women weren't even allowed to practice yoga. 
But somehow when the practice came to the U.S., women glommed onto it and now they dominate every studio. 
Yoga can be a really good practice for men's particular body issues. 
Men often have tighter muscles and joints because they are more muscle-bound than women, so the flexibility aspect of yoga is great, but also the strengthening in combination with the stretching can facilitate an easing of pain and inflammation in male bodies allowing for more freedom and grace in movement.
At Firefly we have a new class that is just for men. Broga. It is taught on Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. by Nathan Anglin. Nathan is a personal trainer in addition to being a yoga teacher and specializes in yoga for muscle release and strengthening. 
BROGA - 9 a.m. Sundays at our Tumwater studio
In good health, 
Lisa