Beer and Yoga

So it's probably a thing in other places, but here in Nashville we have beer and yoga. That is, the local breweries give up their space for yoga and sometimes their beer as well. On Saturday mornings at 10:30 Mantra has a free class with a free beer, where the take donations for a local charity that changes quarterly. Tuesday evenings at 6:30 Fat Bottom has a $5 donation class run by Small World Yoga. I generally grab a beer beforehand to drink during the class. Likewise the same organization has a monthly free class at Tailgate, usually the first Wednesday of the month.

Cara's friend Bethany clued us in to the fun and now I go almost every week. Cara doesn't often get up for the Saturday morning ones, and sometimes they declare a girls only night, but generally we go together. Bethany is a little obsessed with one of the Small World instructors, and she's always out for yoga if he's there. Me, I kind of enjoy doing it with other people. I can feel a little out of place if it's 90% female as yoga often is though. It's hard not to feel like that one creepy guy when you're in a room full of women with their butts in the air. Fortunately Mantra usually has a much more balanced group - sometimes there are even more guys there than girls!

So tonight we'll be out at Fat Bottom. And tomorrow we'll be out at Tailgate. Last weekend was the marathon and next weekend we're visiting the girls in Atlanta, so it'll be some time before I'm back at Mantra. I told my co-workers in Ohio about the Beer & Yoga phenomenon and one of them joked "So that's where freemium came from - blame Nashville!"