What's Wrong With Yoga Pants?

January 18, 2026•2 min read

Yoga pants have become the unofficial uniform of modern spirituality.

They are sleek, flattering, and undeniably effective at grabbing attention in a scroll-happy social media world. They also happen to sit at the center of a $35 to $45 billion global industry.

So, what’s wrong with yoga pants?

Yoga was never meant to decorate the body.
It was meant to prepare the vessel.
To prepare the body and nervous system to harness, hold, and move more Source energy.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda describes yoga masters demonstrating abilities modern culture labels as miraculous. Things like telepathic intuition, extraordinary youthfulness and longevity, spontaneous manifestation, and complete mastery over stress response and bodily functions.

Growing up in India, yoga was taught in loose, undyed white cotton clothing.

Why?

Because true masters understood yoga as an energetic practice.

Modern yoga pants are typically made from synthetic stretch fabrics. Petroleum-based plastics. Plastic insulates electricity (energy). That is literally why electrical wires are coated in it. Its purpose is separation and containment, not flow.

Cotton does the opposite.

Organic cotton is a natural fiber. It breathes. It conducts rather than contains, acting as a conduit that allows energy to flow.

And if you are a Star Wars fan, you have already seen this principle illustrated. Jedi Masters, attuned to the Living Force, trained in loose robes of natural materials. Clone Troopers wore full synthetic armor.

Only the Jedi could feel the Force.

Does it make sense to practice an energetic discipline while wrapped in stretchy plastic that restricts flow?

Jedi may be fictional.
But Shaolin monks and mystics are not.
And they all train in cotton.

So what’s wrong with yoga pants?
Nothing.
Unless you are training to feel the Force.

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Soni, Matt & Source
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