Pohlman said that he combines his 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification with his knowledge of sports training to amplify the effectiveness of yoga. “My goal is to help you do what you want to do physically for as long as you possibly can,” Pohlman said, “Sometimes the byproduct of that is getting the lean, toned, muscular look that most guys are looking for and other times it’s just giving you the ability to just play with your grandkids. The majority of people that I’m working with are in their 40s, 50s and 60s.” While Pholman was focused on bringing yoga to more men, he found that his “meathead yoga brand” was helping people to achieve the feats of everyday living that were important to them. “I called it Manflow Yoga because more men are unwilling to go into a public class or even into a workout class at all and try to get into the state that most yoga instructors were pushing you towards,” Pohlman said, “It made me feel uncomfortable and I know that other people were feeling uncomfortable too.” And as he sought something to fill that need for him and came up short, he created a targeted form of yoga for men: Manflow Yoga. Pohlman falls on the non-spiritual side, with a desire to simply keep things physical. In the end, the district’s tax on yoga studios stayed (along with other gyms), but other cities have landed on the other side of that fence. was divided into two camps determining whether yoga was a taxable non-religion or whether its purposes were religious and therefore exempt from a specific tax. Yoga is linked deeply to a history of spirituality, and the idea of removing that element from the practice is often a hot debate. While Pohlman was hooked on the physical aspects of the practice, he was reluctant to adopt the spiritual elements. “I wandered into a Bikram yoga studio on accident and it was the hardest workout that I’d ever done by far,” Pohlman said, “I realized that there was an element of my fitness that I was missing out on and I started going back and regularly – three, four or five times a week.” Dean Pohlman, founder of Manflow Yoga, discovered yoga as a college lacrosse player and was instantly addicted. But as a practice, one thing has remained a constant: it’s forever changing.

As one of the oldest forms of exercise, it predates Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda by thousands of years. It’s no secret that yoga is beneficial, helping to lengthen, strengthen and realign the body to allow practitioners to live a full, healthy life.

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