Yogic Flying

• Eduo
  August 14th, 2007 at 5:22 am

  There is a trick… there must be. Otherwise I can’t imagine how so many people would be able to do the whole scene without craking up and miss a step in a fit of laughter.

• fluff
  August 14th, 2007 at 6:09 am

  Good luck with your knees a few years later. I guess just before surgery when the meds kick in you’ll be flying though…

• Tara
  August 14th, 2007 at 7:56 am

  Hahaha. This totally reminds me of the natural law party in Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_Canada

• Anita
  August 14th, 2007 at 10:30 am

  OMG, THEY’RE FLYING!

• john
  August 14th, 2007 at 11:15 am

  its what the rest of the world calls hopping, except they’re sitting cross-legged.

• Solo
  August 14th, 2007 at 11:35 am

  Anita wins the thread! Thanks for the laugh!

• Mike K.
  August 14th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

  Ah. Yogic flying…

  I haven’t heard about that since the Natural Law Party of Canada advocated it back in the 90s.

  No. Seriously.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_Canada

• THor
  August 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

  LOL. There isn’t one single girl in that group. No girl would be dumb enough to do that.

• tiki187
  August 14th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  I see… Flying, Eh? Ya. Oookay. Mmm…

• omelet
  August 14th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

  Buns of Steel - advanced course

• Simon
  August 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

  I hope they wear cups…

• Cyber
  August 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

  They’re so… majestic.

• michael
  August 14th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

  not sooo special, I do yoga for many years, I can do this too, and it has nothing to do with supernatural stuff, just with practicing for a while, no need for the knees when you can sit in a lotus..

• Ali S.
  August 14th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

  So, finally the Yogis have harnessed the power of the elusive “Retarded Bunny Hop”

• Suzanne
  August 14th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

  If this is flying then Drew Carey is Mikhail Baryshnikov.

• Paper
  August 14th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

  OMG my nuts are having sympathy pains!

• furious d
  August 14th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

  I hope they’re having lots of fun, because that’s pretty much the most ridiculous thing I’ve every seen.

• Tankslappa
  August 15th, 2007 at 7:04 am

  It’s hardly what I’d call progress, I’ve been able to cover ground faster than this from the age of 2… I stood up.

• munky
  August 15th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

  That’s jumping that is.

  It’s also connected to that whole ‘if frogs had wings, they wouldn’t bump their ass when they jump…’ thing…

  Flying?
  My arse…

• Jan
  August 16th, 2007 at 5:28 am

  “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

• me
  January 22nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm

  “All bullshit passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being bullshit.” - me

• me too
  February 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  Folks - suspending disbilief for a while, you need to notice:
  (a) doing this actively in a group in this coordinated fashion is next to impossible - unless they practice this for years!
  (b) none of them seem to be exerting themselves to jump - look at their posture at the time of take off
  (c) the jump is quite high - so attempting to do this purely physically and for such a distance would be really exhausting. They don’t look tired to me.
  (d) TM guys themselves say that “hopping” is stage 1 -stage 2 and 3 are what they are after. Of which a video might be much more interesting.
  (e) I have experienced uncontrollable surges of energy when you do some yoga practices - none of them involved jumping, but I can imagine if the same energy gets coordinated directionally, it could make you jump!
  So yes - it does look incredible and pointless, but I wouldn’t write it off simply because I have never experienced it myself. Though the bullshit quote is hilarious :))

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