Can Yoga make a good video game?

Or better yet, can the Wii Fit help my yoga practice? Currently out of stock all over the US, the Wii Fit is the most desired video game and accessory in the world...but I want to know, is the Wii Fit just another passing fad or does it actually make a good yoga training tool?

About My Blog...

I have been praticing ashtanga yoga for over 15 years and teaching for the last 10 years. I became curious about the Nintendo Wii Fit after hearing about its infulence on Yoga popluarity. I thought it would be interesting to evaluate the Wii fit as a yoga tool and blog my results.

Wii Yoga Game in Development

CVG is reporting a Wii Yoga game (?!) being developed by JoWood currently planned for released in the second quarter of 2009.

The publisher says young at heart gamers will be able to experience the “favoured doctrine for mind, body and soul” with Wii Yoga, and promises a truly “unique” gaming experience unlike anything else. Apart from Wii Fit.

The JoWood website has no official information at their website so for now you might want to consider this information a rumor but one must have to assume that the gaming development sector is racing to come out with a Wii Yoga type of game on the heals of the Wii Fit success. If a gaming company out there could release a halfway decent exclusively yoga program for the Wii Fit by this 2008 Holiday season, the masses would buy.

I would like to add: calling yoga a game just doesn’t sound right. “Practice” makes better sense but may sound too boring for marketing. Second, as CVG reported, Nintendo already has said no to developers using “wii” in their game titles so JoWoods may have to use the name “We Yoga” just like the “We Ski” game. I’d place my bet on “iYoga” but yogis don’t gamble.

Please add you ideas for a “Wii Yoga game title” in the comments section below:

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