Parking Lot Yoga

Parking Lot Yoga is going to be a thing.

For yoga teachers and students, we are suddenly in a new world. Covid-19 has profoundly changed our society. Come May or June, yoga is not going back to the way it was. It is not going to be cozy and up close. Physical distancing is going to be the norm. If the epidemiologists are correct, Covid-19 will naturally mutate and a second, more deadly wave of Covid-20 or Covid-21 could come a few months from now. 

Anyone coughing in a yoga class becomes a serious problem to the whole room. Any yoga that uses lots of props, pillows and bolsters will need an extraordinary daily sanitation regime. Ruthie Fraser, a well known yoga teacher suggested, it will be “BYOP only” Yoga.

For yoga teachers, hands on assists are a thing of the past. Partner Yoga, Acro yoga, Thai yoga workshops are seriously challenged. Many group activities and group yoga poses that require lots of touching and close proximity to others is going to be a happy memory. Hot sweaty yoga in close quarters is seriously challenged.

People are going to require lots of space around them. We are entering the era of Parking Lot Yoga.