This is a development short that was created to give you an idea of the tone of the film. The script is no longer a mockumentary and is a straight up narrative comedy.
Synopsis
Like 30 million other Americans seeking to merge spirituality and exercise, Jo, a 34 year-old, single, African American woman, discovers yoga. She quits her job as a financial analyst, and joins “Les Yoga”, a wombyn friendly studio for bisexuals and lesbians (not Francophiles).
Charlyn, owner of Les Yoga and part-time Weapon’s Trade Show Auctioneer will soon compete in the yoga pose-off of the century battling with other yoga studio owners from around the world for a coveted the Yogi™ franchise.
Jo battles to meditate into her center (enrolling in the Mediation Madness™ silent retreat run by Yoga Farm™; reading Eat, Pray, Love; falling in love with a male Hopi Indian) but as an over-achieving please-others-before-herself type, she gets increasingly caught up in the commercial pull of Les Yoga and the seduction of becoming a yoga teacher. Charlyn, ever exploiting ways to manifest money, organizes a tour group of Les Yoga students willing to pay to attend the Yoga Championships. Feeling that Jo’s blackness will “chill the vibe of the whole group” she hires her to drive the tour bus to the competition 400 miles away. When Charlyn is incapacitated the night before the finals, Jo steps up to take Charlyn’s place as the only athletic, real, not real skinny, crowd favorite competitive poser.
With T&A boosted high TV ratings of his Championships, the Yogi™ could position his patent protected 25-pose sequence (of the 3,000 year-old practice of yoga posing) to be the first non-competitive event in the most competitive competition in the world – The Olympic Games. Jo must choose between being a poster child for this well-meaning, money-making narcissist, or turning inward, enlightening him and her fellow yoga posers in front of television millions.
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