The Most Random Thing Ever

Posted by beth on August 5, 2009

Aw MAN! What a bummer. I had this INCREDIBLE video to share with you today of a weird dude on a cartoonish farm doing yoga with kids and a character named Rasta Rooster, and I’ve just discovered that it is now unavailable everywhere due to a copyright claim by Robin Maxwell. Look, Robin Maxwell, I don’t know who you are, or who you think you are, but WE WANT OUR RASTA ROOSTER BACK! Here is my original post:

Dear Uncle Gordy,

You are entirely too good to me and my readers to continue sending me these gems of YouTube. I know neither what to make of this nor what to say about it, so I open the discussion up to the general public. Tell me, general public, at what age should we begin our children’s yoga education? And how should we go about doing it? Is the yoga farm condescending in any way, or does it just make things more fun, like turning chores into games or vegetables into monster brains and insects? And how awesome is that cow? “Breeeeeaaaaaathe.”

See? You want to watch it now, don’t you? I say we start a petition. And in the meantime, Uncle Gordy has just come through AGAIN with this. Apparently there are many, so do check them out.

Filed Under: friends, music, not normal, vegan Comments: 5 Comments to Read

ANONYMOUS said,

The PE teacher at our school advised parents that she was going to be introducing some yoga exercises to the kids in our elementary school. Some conservative Christian parents complained that yoga came from a non-Christian tradition (Hinduism/Buddhism) and that their children were prohibited from taking part in those PE classes. So, apparently, there are more restrictions than age to yoga activities.
beth said,

That is ridiculous. Hey, rumor has it that primitive forms of golf and soccer were played in China in the 1700s. I guess we should be scared of those too.
jon b. said,

That video was on NPR’s Monitor Mix blog recently and I caught it on there.
Robin Maxwell said,

Hi there,

As the co-creator of “EiEi Yoga” (as well as the character of Rasta the Rooster) I want to say that it was my legal responsibility as the holder of the copyright of the video to protect it from copyright infringement. We were shocked and saddened by the 1,500+ vicious comments that appeared on EverythingIsTerrible.com’s site.

On the basis of this badly edited clip, my husband of 25 years, Max Thomas (a/k/a Yogi Oki Doki), a much-loved and highly respected teacher who has been bringing yoga to the world for 35 years, was called a pervert and a pedophile hundreds and hundreds of times. And a beautiful black child he was teaching was referred to as “that little nigger.”

I petitioned YouTube to remove the video from the web to stop the flow of violent energy around a project that was produced out of love, joy, and utter silliness. I think that any person who saw their mate being so derided would have done the same thing.

And don’t worry. “EiEi Yoga” will soon be back in DVD form, and you’ll be able to see the entire 38 minute show, including Rasta the Rooster’s Reggae rendition of “The Breathing Song.”
unclegordy said,

How do I preorder the DVD. “the breathing song” is my favorite. But Yoga is the DEVIL!!!!