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We always thought that the practice of yoga was meant to make you more restful and filled with inner peace

What led a couple of practitioners to perform their exercise up the top of a stone promontory with certain death surrounding them at every turn? Watching the video below gave us the heeby-jeebies.

Well, actually we know perfectly why they did it. It was for an advert for water bottles.

If we look at yoga in history we can see the kind of place it's supposed to happen. This 17th century painting shows a yogi doing it as it's supposed to be done - peacefully, in a quiet garden.

Not like this... Why not watch the advert and resist the temptation to scream "ARRGGHHHHHH! Get back from the edge!!"

It is extraordinary. But is it peaceful?

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How reaching the state of Asamprajnata - which according to the advert is "the highest state of super-consiousness. Completely detaching from external stimuli coming to a full realization of the self, where the mind is completely stilled and reality is experienced,"- is supposed to be achieved through the purchase of a water/ shaker bottle is beyond us.

Sounds more like the feeling you get in a nice hot bath

We know which we'd prefer.