Is it normal to burp loudly in a yoga class??

[Brightbluestone]

Just done a yoga class with about 8 women and one man. As I was rolling up out of my spinal roll I hear this giant, very loud, very intentional burp coming from across the room! I smiled expecting everyone to laugh or look a bit shocked, and the person to say ‘oops I’m so sorry’ or ‘excuse me’ or something, but everyone just carried on as though it was totally normal..did not even acknowledge it! I’m pretty sure it was the man, which for some reason, annoyed me a bit. Just made me think, god another entitled, arrogant man. I don’t think I’d have felt that way if it had been a woman. He also breathed SO loudly. I get in yoga some people like to deep breathe but it really does not need to be so loud. I’ve done quite a lot of various different yoga classes over the years and I’ve never heard anyone burp like this. Is this normal??

No unless there's a medical reason it's very strange

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I do fart quite a bit during yoga. Which is one of the reasons that, while I do a 'live' class, I prefer to do it online.

I also enjoy letting out massive belches when I'm running in the woods - running seems to shake the gas to the top. I probably sound like a rutting deer, but there aren't generally other people around.. . 😁

Me neither. I wonder if it happens in Pilates. 😆

I do yoga positions to specifically release trapped wind through both farting and burping.

I only do it at home though.

You can’t always help a burp, just like you can’t always help a fart.

Lots of people also breathe heavily and they can’t help it.

It sounds like you had an issue with a man being in the group and if it was a woman who burped or breathed heavily then you wouldn’t have had an issue with it.

Passing wind during yoga is pretty normal and it is usually ignored. I know some adults find passing wind funny and laugh with their friends about it but I find it odd that you expected a group of strangers in an exercise class to laugh at someone for doing it. That could be really humiliating for the person.

Yes I’d have found it way less offensive if it was a woman. An entitled woman doesn’t annoy me half as much as an entitled man. A big part of the reason I found it offensive was the fact that I’m pretty certain it was the man. Combined with the rest of his behaviour (the grunting, the performative breathing, also stretching out his arms without considering the space of the person next to him at all), it just made for such a typical ‘yoga man’. Entitled, loud, performative, inconsiderate. Putting behaviour like that down to being in “your own individual practice” just excuses disruptive, antisocial behaviour.

He needs more space if he's too close to other people. It isn't his fault if his arms are longer than the petite older ladies around him. People are usually asked not to speak during class, even to excuse themselves. Yoga poses are recommended for trapped wind, so it coming out, one end or the other, is to be expected. Is his breathing performative, or is he a loud breather? A lot of men are because of previous broken noses and biology. It doesn't sound like the class for you. Go to to a all woman one.

Sounds gross, this (and lots of other reasons) is why I prefer women only classes.

Why do women always have to make compromises to accommodate men?

They should have women only yoga classes but I suppose there aren't enough men to make a full class for them so they'd miss out. I do find some of them annoying with the loud breathing and performances but then at other classes, the men have been fine and there's only usually one or two anyway.

I think it’s bcos everyone reacting to it & laughing etc disrupts the flow or whatever is going on - if it’s a v meditative type perhaps. But I’d find it really hard to just loudly burp brazenly without some kind of remark after to acknowledge it. Maybe it’s performative yoga burping? Don’t put your mat behind his as it could be his warm up to performative yoga farting lol

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everyone farts in all the time in yoga no point apologising so same way for burps probably. The stretching pushes out air

the one place we should remove judgment and ego is during movement and exercise.

The loud breathing is a yoga practice. It’s a way to warm the body from the inside. Try it, it’s fun.

The loud breathing might be ujjayi breathing that's used in Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga. It kind of sounds like Darth Vader breathing. The breath is linked to the movement or holding the pose.

I'm surprised your instructor has never taught it.

Well if I have to stretch my arms out for a pose and there’s someone close enough that my arms will go on their mat, I’ll make sure to shuffle down/re-position myself a bit so that I don’t disrupt their pose. Other women next to me have always done the same. It’s basic manners, this bloke was just stretching out wherever he wanted with zero consideration for how it was impacting the people on either side of him.

Between chemotherapy and steroids I have shocking burps right now. Have to head off road to run so I don’t inflict them on others 😂
As a yoga teacher, I have to say it happens, but not that often. Burps are usually more restrained in volume, I’d pin it on a certain kind of man.

Yep he sounds like he’s manspreading all over the place. Grim. Il

I didn't realise "people fart all the time during yoga". Can't think why anyone would want to participate in it to be stunk out by other people's wind.

I have to point out that while it may have disgusted you, what is more disgusting is your blatant admission to sexism, saying it was the man, then doubling down that if it were a woman it probably wouldn't have bothered you, so, for that, I'll say, deal with it, because your behaviour is more disgusting....

Oh god, Another liberal man hater you should live in a female commune away from normal people

Farting is more common but I can see how anything that makes you fart can make you burp as well. It's both air coming out and is caused by the yoga so no point berating people for it.

Ha ha! There is a reason why there is always a scented candle or incense burning in my yoga class.

Sounds gross. Glad I don’t go to yoga classes. Fancy not even saying excuse me.