To think that doing yoga in a public place is just attention seeking?

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Several times this year I've seen people crack out a mat in the middle of a public place and start doing yoga.
When I say public place, I'm not talking about a park or a beach, but an airport, bus station and a waiting room.
It seems to be a trend on Instagram too, the culprit usually kitted it in something very reveaking.
I love yoga and it's great for being a "portable" exercise but AIBU in thinking that doing it in a place where you stand out is just showing off, and is a little bit wanky?

A few stretches = ok.
Full on getting a yoga mat out and stripping down to tiny clothing = wanker

Running has to be outside though for the space. You could do yoga in your garden, you don't need to be on the side of the M25.

@Online Tree What a stupid argument! Runners could run inside on a treadmill.

People should be applauded for living a healthy lifestyle, not mocked for it.

Sorry bluecookie did you just sidle up to me in leather shoes?? How dare you pontificate in nonmushroom based footwear!

Don’t mean to sleg veganism btw just performance veganism, which it most definitely was in the case of our exdt (ex dear tenant)

I saw a chap doing yoga in the middle of the concourse at Waterloo a few months back. He got shat on by a pigeon.

LOL !!!!

In a park, on a beach etc - not wanky

Some stretches tucked out the way in an airport - not wanky (and i would be jealous that your stretching is probably way more effective than ny awkward shuffling. I would want to ask to join you and would then chicken out)

Middle of a train station and busy public spaces - totally wanky

Just like running on a footpath - not wanky
Deciding some steps in the centre of town are the PERFECT place for some HIIT and reps - very wanky

Not everyone has room in their house for a treadmill. What a stupid argument!

Hahaha! Even the pigeon thought it was Wanky!

I saw a chap doing yoga in the middle of the concourse at Waterloo a few months back. He got shat on by a pigeon.

Imagine doing it on the flaming Concourse at Waterloo though! What a tool!

I think it's great: not doing any harm; not making a racket; providing a bit of mild entertainment for passers by; and helping themselves to pass the time in a non-boring way.

I think it's wanky to look at your phone in public.

Everyone has access to a gym though!

You have to pay for a gym. Running outside is free.

Waterloo is the station I’ve commuted from forever and I’ve noticed many more people doing exercisey things recently.
Most of them are wearing normal clothes and just working out the kinks/doing their steps.

Some have clearly dressed for a class but somehow find themselves in a very busy train station at rush hour. I don’t mind them at all but it is a strange thing to do with your free time.

Meh. Cant let myself think this kind of thing is wanky.

I mean it would open the door to whole loads of other wankery that I would have to then acknowledge and get annoyed about.

1. Anything other than a simple buggy for taking kids out. Who actually needs a 17 mode transportation system.

1. Said transportation system and associated mothers in coffee shops, speaking loudly.

1. Women on buses with a overly large number of bags taking up lots of room (men and their fecking backpacks hitting peoples heads are totally acknowdleged wankers).

1. Children in airports and the parents who cant control them.

1. People who are surprised that they have to pay for items at supermarkets. With the special sub class of women whose payment method is at the bottom of a purse which was at the bottom of a bag.

etc.

At least yoga is quiet and totally ignorable. Watching someone huff and puff trying to get their child transportation system to close cause a disabled person is in a wheelchair on the bus already thus causing a delay is not.

I can't get worked up about this. People smoking in public places are far more of an impact on others than someone doing a few stretches.

Majorly wanky, people doing it on planes are ridiculous. There's no space and I feel like I'm awkwardly trying to look everywhere else but their direction, just uncomfortable. Lol

This is quite mean spirited. I go about my daily business not knowing or caring about you. I get on a plane or wait for the plane and do a short routine devised for the long journey and it affects you how?

How does my looking after my body and mental wellbeing have anything to do with you? Why do you even have an opinion?

It goes against my philosophy of yoga to be so judgemental of others. But this conversation tests my resolve. I don't even care about the Insta yogis, cause they are doing them. May I suggest you do you.

I'm sorry but doing yoga on a plane full of people is unfair, unless you've somehow found a space where there is no one around.
In a lot of the flights I've been to you'd have to practise in the aisle, within inches of other people. That's blocking the way and invading personal space.
Just because you're doing it whilst practising mindfulness and not thinking about others, doesn't mean it's not affecting them.

I have all manner of joint problems and travel long haul regularly and never once have felt the need to do a full yoga session in public.

Agree, plane aisles/space at back is not an appropriate place for “full on” yoga: distracting for other passengers and staff.

Never seen anyone doing any kind of exercise in london stations, apart from running for trains. There is often little space because of the stations being so busy, perhaps in the upstairs bits.

I’d think they must be REALLY into exercise and / or self absorbed.

"I saw it at an airport with dad and kids doing it"

That I could understand. My DD went to a baby yoga class with her first and has kept it up with them. Her eldest (3) has epic tantrums and seems to get overloaded. Yoga calms her, she enjoys it and will spend at least half an hour doing it. Someone on this thread has listed what else annoys them and out of control children at airports is on there. So you can't win at this Parenting game.

Obesity was getting slagged off because the information had been read wrong about it causing Cancer. We know that processed meat will cause more Cancer than Obesity, but once again, Vegans are being slated.

Teach yourself critical thinking and you'll stop all of your annoyance or irritation.

It's the performance aspect of it though not the actual act. Doing it in a way that screams 'everybody look at meeeeee. I'm so cool and alternative'. That's the wanky part.

It's nothing to do with looking after your body, there's nothing wrong with that. It's the showing off. Not British!

But if it doesn't affect you in any way, why get bothered about what someone else is doIng?

AnotherDunroamin

People do it everywhere in India

Yeah and we all break out into choreographed dance routines at every opportunity too. Train stations, airports, shopping centres - we only really go to these places to have a good old public stretch and get on down to some bhangra

That just about sums up my family

I do yoga stretches in the fruit machine rooms at motorway services. They're out of the way and usually empty. I don't want attention but it makes a difference to my back and shoulders.

Oh god I will never forget a woman who did this.

On a packed St Tropez beach.
Topless and wearing a thong.
On the shoreline FACING everyone on the beach

My arse is clenching just thinking about it