Ok, boys, gentlemen, not so gentle men,

knights in shining armor, pimps and playas.

Youve see us in the gym, in yoga studios, in magazines or on TV. Maybe youve even taken
our classeswe yoginis, the flexible dare-devils on a spiritual mission who seem to float
around the world so freely. Were a different breed. Most of us are born travelers, nomads even.
Most of us dont like societal rules and conventions. And most of us dont adhere to them and
have dedicated our lives to living outside boxes in some way or another.
This is a beautiful thing that many men find intoxicating and exhilarating until they realize
that it also scares the shit out of them. This is true especially for the kind who look good in ties.
For the multi-talented beautiful Yoga Goddess, finding a life partner who is traveling down the
same road or wants to walk hand-in-hand with a Yoga Goddess on her journey is much more
difficult for her than any forearm balance. Yoga Goddess, more specifically, a woman from a
Western civilization who teaches yoga for a living, especially in a metropolis of some kind, is a
complicated creature who has elected to remove her Western goggles and instead apply and be
guided by Eastern philosophies and practices of self-actualization.
This makes her an intriguing and complicated creature to most men, but I assure you, she is not
entirely inscrutable. You have only to understand that underneath her yogi persona, your Yoga
Goddess was probably fed fairy tales for most of her life, where damsels in distress waited to be
rescued by the Prince. Now she is grown up and she is a Yoga Goddess, a yogi who has
discovered herdharma ( this is the Sanskrit word for ones virtuous path) and a devotion to
God which has eased her existential distress but probably not completely relieved her of the
distress of the romantic variety.
A Yoga Goddess can appear to many like an untouchable, statuesque, ephemeral, mystical,
zany, Aphrodite-esque theatrical mess on wheels. To many men, she is bewitching and
beguiling, she can unsettle you with her eyes and bring you to tears when you least expect it. A
Yoga Goddess can see souls. She knows how to make you feel things you may not want to feel,
which leaves many men feeling too vulnerable in her presence to ever feel good enough. Know
that the Yoga Goddess of your dreams is not out to emasculate you but that it is her wish and it
is within her power simply to help you open your heart. Sometimes, a Yoga Goddess forgets her
own power and forgets too that a man might not want the woman he is pursing to have that
effect on him. Know that she knows this but cant always help it. Her soul work goes deep. The
tricky part is, as a highly sensitive healer and woman with deep compassion for human
suffering, she no doubt has walls of her own that you will have to be willing to tear down for
her to feel safe enough to let you in. Therein lies her beautiful complexity.
So, here are some essential things you should know before you set out to win the heart of a
Yoga Goddess of your dreams:
1) Get over the fact that a Yoga Goddess is probably someone who is a little bit dangerous
to take home to meet your mother.
It occurred to me recently that this picture alone might actually have been why my last
relationship didnt work. If you want your Yoga Goddess for your very own, you must grow up
and get over needing your mothers approval. Yoginis are sparkling, creative, charming,
intelligent, beautiful, sexy, highly intuitive and charismatic women who your mother might not
love at first and will come to love eventually. But were also wild and free-spirited, with a lotta
bit of hippie hell-raiser on the inside, which has the potential to feel threatening to many
mothers who just want their son to settle down with a nice girl who wont make too many
waves. The good thing is that these qualities are usually countered with equal parts compassion,
faith, and altruism. Yoginis also have chameleon qualities, so it is possible that your Yoga
Goddess might be willing to dim her light for a meeting with the parents, but do not be surprised
if your beloved Mumsy gives her the snake eye for reasons you cannot and will not ever
understand. Its a witchy woman thing.
2) Yoga Goddesses dont do small talk.
Yoga goddesses usually cut the shit and get to the stuff that matters. Questions like, What do
you feel? Where do you feel it? What do you believe? Have you surrendered? are a Yogi
Goddesss version of small talk. A woman who has chosen a spiritual path and dedicates her
lifes work to helping people unify their mind, body, and spirit in profound and transformative
ways is just not very good at shooting the shit with strangers and will tend to fire away
questions that get right to the heart of the matter. If you need her to tone down the yoga talk,
simply brief her before dinner with your boss. You can take her to work functions and she will
do just fine for a while, but you might hear her take very deep loud audible breaths throughout
the course of the night to manage her sensitivity to the noise and heavy lifting of bullshitting.
Keep in mind, in her line of work, she meets people for the first time on the floor in sweatpants,
and spends her days reading about God and breathing. So, dont be surprised if she might need
to go and do a headstand in the corner after a few vodka tonics to handle the change of scenery
and relax her face from all the fake smiling.
3) Yoga Goddesses consistently crave and create adventure for themselves and others.
Yogis by nature are adventurous so if youre not willing to be adventurous, in all kinds of ways,
if you need to play it safe because youre afraid of what people will think, then the Yoga
Goddess is not for you and she probably wont date you anyway. For the Yoga Goddess, it is
not enough to simply like the idea of adventure. She will test your strength, she will keep you
on your toes, she will love it if you surprise her just as much as she surprises you. If youre a
stable, steady kind of man, she will love you for your groundedness but ask you to abandon it
on occasion in the name of faith, courage, and wisdom. Thats just how it goes. One of the most
romantic things you can do for a Yoga Goddess is to plan a trip for the two of you and surprise
her with it. She is used to taking the lead with plans and orchestrating events. To be cared for in
this way is a Yogi Goddessess dream. And yes, the adventure extends to the bedroom,
naturally. Dont be scared. Yoga Goddesses are very gifted and patient teachers and healers.
4) A Yoga Goddess will turn your world upside down.
If you fall for a Yoga Goddess, it is very likely that she will very gracefully turn your buttoned-
up world upside down. Afterall, she has been called to teach people to see things from another
perspective, to look at things differently, to encourage people to challenge their ideas about who
they are and what their lives should look like. This is probably why many men will date Yoga
Goddesses for a time but never marry them. The potential for change is too great for many men
who are intrigued by the possibility of being with someone so free-spirited but who are
ultimately uncomfortable with what life might look like with someone who is so comfortable
with uncertainly, so in tune with and guided by spirit. Someone who possesses an ardent faith in
things unseen can feel too intense for someone who is not prepared or interested in a spiritual
journey. So, while your Yoga Goddess can be playful and fun-loving, she takes her life, her
vocation and her spiritual path very seriously. A man who earns a Yoga Goddesss love must
respect and admire her work, understand its value to humanity.
5) Yoga Goddesses are mysterious.
Yoga Goddesses do not go out of their way to be mysterious, they just are, simply because they
have surrendered to the mysteries of life, have given up searching for answers for why things
are and very comfortable living the the gray areas of life. If you are a rigid thinker, the Yoga
Goddess is not for you. She is a free-thinker, open-minded and open-hearted. She prizes
authenticity over knowledge and accomplishment and leans into the mystery of life at every
turn. In my experience, this terrifies and confuses many men. Yoga Goddesses are not good
planners since they are usually out doing Gods work, will entertain detours if led by spirit to go
left instead of right or to be late for an appointment because of a chance encounter with a
mystical stranger who seems to have an important message for her. She will require your trust
and patience and she will return the favor tenfold. If she keeps you waiting, chances are she will
have a magical reason for it, a wonderful story that keeps your faith in things unseen alive.
Shell tell you about it while giving you some kind of exotic massage. She cannot be rushed.
And she will not let anyone else set her pace for her.
6) A Yoga Goddess is the hostess with the mostest.
She will cook you things to balance your doshas and if you dont know what those are, she will
help you identify them. She will play amazing music from all over the world that will transport
you into other galaxies. She will know what to do with your body in many situations as well as
what kind of oils to rub on it and where to make you feel like the God you are. She will create a
house of harmony, health, balance. She will want to care for your mind, body, and spirit. She
cant help it. Its her job.
7) A Yoga Goddess is still a material girl.
A Yoga Goddess is not immune to desires of the flesh. Though she has probably made the
decision, at certain points in her life to disengage from the material world as part of her spiritual
training, she does still enjoy earthly comforts like jewels and fancy dinners and unexpected trips
to exotic locales. And she is still a girl looking for a boy to love her, honor her, and ravish her.
8 ) A Yoga Goddess cherishes her freedom and yours.
The yogic path is often called the quest for the jivan mukti, or the souls liberation. A woman
who is on a yogic path understands that souls want what souls want and that a relationship is
meant to be a place where those desires can be expressed without shame or guilt. This can make
her seem like she has the potential to be so free-spirited that she just wants to be free-wheelin,
free-loadin and free-lovin her way around the world. Not so. A yogic-minded woman simply
understands for herself that we are all here to be each others teachers and students and that
there is no better place for the expression of that dynamic than in a loving partnership.