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Creepy man in yoga class

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Foreverinjeans · 27/03/2022 20:18

Hi.
I wonder if anyone else has come across this?

And disclaimer. I'm not saying all men attending yoga classes are like this.

However I have been to a few yoga classes and have noticed that it can attract predatory men.
Example, one guy joined our predominantly female class a few weeks ago. He's in his early 40s.
He made one of the girls uncomfortable by standing too close and staring.
He asked another for a drink . She declined and told a few of us older and therefore not on his radar women that she and others, found him creepy and letchy and how he'd made strange comments about keeping his urges under control!!!

He disappeared. Probably as he realised he'd been uncovered.
The younger girls say there's always one man who is there, using yoga class as a pick-up opportunity. In my last class there was another, not quite as overt but who did make women uncomfortable.

yoga is ever more creasing in popularty and there are way more females that practice.
Have any other yogis found this?
Sometimes it feels like nothing is sacred.

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Triffid1 · 27/10/2025 11:48

sadsackusa · 27/10/2025 10:49

i have to say it is extremely depressing reading this as a male, but confirms what I've been thinking all along about females when I do yoga classes. friendliness and wanting to make a friendship with someone on the same spiritual path is interpreted as the man being a pervert. this one track mind of the females on this chat indicates more about themselves than men doing yoga. yes, i've often been met with hostility from women doing yoga. Very sad as yoga means a lot to me and it would be good to have female friends who are on the same path. But this confirms why they behave as they do. sex must be on their minds all the time. as is baiting males who do yoga. why they put their yoga mat next to mine, stare at me during sivasana then rush off at the end if i try to talk to them, must be my fault.

you've tracked down this zombie thread to complain about women in your yoga class? Sorry, but yes, you sound like the problem.

Chatting after yoga is fine. women do it all the time with each other. But it doesn't take genius social skills to understand that you simply can't expect to be best friends with someone after 1 yoga class. Polite chit chat of a few seconds o rminutes, over time, can develop into friendship. You don't start sharing your "spiritual journey" on day 1.

Oh, and top tip - everyone puts their yoga mat next to someone. It's not an invitation for a relationship. It's called sharing a space.

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 27/10/2025 12:06

you've tracked down this zombie thread to complain about women in your yoga class?

Apparently. My yoga class (the same one I was going to in 2022) is mixed-sex nowadays & as far as I know everyone’s fine with it, but there’s no performative grunting & while a few of us might chat after, there’s no chatting up.

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