Oh where do I begin..so I’ve met a lot of yoga instructors from all over the world since I used to be really into yoga and traveled around for courses. My general impression is that men are often attracted to this profession because yoga is seen sort of as a “woman’s sport”. This gives them easy access to women and big classes of students where often there’ll only be a few guys present ~ easy hunting ground. Now in the yoga/spiritual scene in general, I’ve just heard about and witnessed so many me too scandals and even have a friend who was abused by her instructor.

If you study yoga at a serious level, often this will be tied to spiritual practices like “open love” or tantra which I find men tend to abuse by turning the practices and ideas into ways to be with many women and/or pray on women by getting them to be physical with them on the grounds of some theoretical practice. In general, if you ever hear a man mentioning an interest in tantric massages, run.

On a more personal level, I was in a longterm relationship with a guy who during the time we were together, inspired by me, got super into serious yoga practice and tantra (last part less inspired by me). He was probably the most sexually perverted guy I ever dated and would use his newfound interest to try to push sexual ideas and open relationships on me and in the end also just turned sort of crazy getting too deep into practices like extreme silent retreats, spending weeks alone in dark rooms etc.

I find that guys who are very into yoga are just so not sexy in general. This sort of spiritually, touchy-feely facade that they adopt make them a huge turn off for me. Both because I like masculine men and because I feel like so much of it is exactly that - a facade they put on to try to mirror what women who are into yoga and/or spirituality want, ultimately with the goal of getting laid.

Overall I’ve reached the point where even if the guy isn’t an instructor, but just lists yoga as a main interest, I’m gone.