Katie Couric Stops By The Oasis, Shows Off Her Moves

Katie Couric stopped by the Oasis today to film a segment, but took a quick break to find her center.

And it turns out that Katie is no amateur yogi, as she gamely kicked off her shoes, flipped upside down, and showed a room full of yoga instructors, entranced onlookers, and journalists exactly how it's done.

Katie readies herself...

And then swings up into a headstand...

Then Katie lowers herself into a pike headstand. All by herself. Really.

And then returns to a headstand. Look at that form!

Lastly, she celebrates.

After her acrobatics, I caught up with Katie for a quick chat.

You obviously have a very busy schedule - how do you find time to unplug?
The main thing is to lead a balanced life. For example, I make sure to make time for family and friends.

What do you do to relax and recharge?
Any number of things from reading a book or excercising to doing something with my girls.

Clearly you're an experienced yogi. How often do you practice? What benefits do you get out yoga?
I've practiced yoga for a while, but not as often as I'd like. It's a great way to relax and exercise at the same time.

What are your thoughts on the Oasis?
It was great. I wish I could have stayed longer!

Any thoughts on the convention and this election?
I'm looking forward to a meaningful election and continuing to expand the ways we interact with our audience on cbsnews.com.

Comments

[LordMoon]

I think the Oasis is a great idea, a good way for people just to be with each other and enjoy each other without too much un necessary points of view.

Just like the Oasis in the desert, or a water hole in Africa where all kinds of beings can feel safe, without being attacked for a few moments, while they take care of their needs.

Yoga can be a great way of coming together like that, without judgement, and condemnation, which make it dificult for the Spirit to be open, at many other times in a persons life.

[GuidedByEwoks]

Namaste, Katie.

[Scarabus]

Most of the comments I've read thus far have been really harsh. I understand. But I think the progressive way is not to attack heedlessly, but to negotiate—without surrendering essential values, of course. To find any media "personality" who will report as neutrally and objectively as possible benefits us. As everyone knows, truth has a liberal bias. So why deliberately attack folks like Couric?

Granted, Couric lacks serious training and experience as a journalist. Granted, she has infuriated me to the point of tearing out what's left of my hair. But really: She holds a very big microphone. She is intelligent, tough, lovely, and charming. Those are givens. The only meaningful question is how progressives choose to deal with these realities. Should we deliberately alienate her? Or should we convince her that we are rational, temperate, and well informed—much more than the wing-nuts?

The best way to encourage movement in the direction one hopes for is to combine both the carrot *AND* the stick. Almost all the comments I've read thus far have been "stick" all the way. Where's the "carrot"? Where's the rationality?

[mh604]

Fair enough Scarabus.

The question to ask about Katie Couric ,as a Big 3 network anchor, and the first female to hold the position remains: Was she the wrong woman at the right time for the job, or would any woman get skewered in the position? Never mind her television roots; never mind that she led with TomKat's baby Suri on the first day at CBS; never mind that she lacks the gravitas, experience, etc.

The problem here is that she showed up at the "Oasis" with a huge mic to do a segment for her program. And bust some yoga moves, which is actually cool. But it's lazy reporting - the media reporting on the media at, of all places, the DNC. The hatefest at MSNBC is guilty of it too. Hell the gabfest at CNN and Fox, etc. as well.

If she's trying to bolster her image as a serious journalist it would probably behoove her to avoid getting pics snapped of her doing the downward dancing dog or whatever. At least while on the job, no?

[provgrays]

Katie's head stand was every bit as good as Edward R. Morrow's!

[provgrays]

I should have written, "Edward R. Murrow".

[LeftVetPatriot]

Yawnbait either way.

[AveryMoore]

FOX NEWS BREAKING STORY

"Photographic PROOF Katie Couric - Secret Muslim!"

"CBS celebrity, and loss-leader, Katie Couric was snapped today facing Mecca during her usually top secret devotions to overthrowing The West by making CBS look silly.

Couric attempted what some critics already say is a "fake headstand.­" A radical act no true American would attempt. An Iowa farmer commented - "Looks to me counter-intuitive, standing on your head like that, when you've already been blessed with bipedal extremities and that fluid stuff in your head. What's the ecological or Darwinian competitive advantage if all you can see is seven inches of floor? She's clearly up to no good as a role model for impressionable Americans during a Presidential election. "

Demonstrating considerable bewilderment over which camp she belongs to, photographers captured Couric in secret obeisant submission to a "foreign" deity (suspiciously named "Buddha".) No fly lists are being altered to include this deity.

Despite knowing she was on camera the brazen Couric could not resist the temptation to join with other Muslims in hating America by making odd poses for journalists to write home about.

See for yourself - the awful truth!

No imagination for Modern Journalism at all, you people...

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

hmmm I might watch CBS even more now

[pie8ter]

What a beauty?

[Roguewolf]

Were they all praying to the ONE?

[mimsnpips]

Obviously you know nothing about yoga.

[JeanPaulSatire]

I'm sure there's a joke about turning Couric on her head in there *somewhere­.*

[ivegotblisteronmefingers]

namaste

[DuckofDeath]

Is that how CBS 'accidentally' inserted McCain friendly answers in Couric's interview w/ Maverick?

[BobsNotWorking]

'Senator Obama, people are scratching their heads. They just can't understand how you can believe the surge isn't working.' That Katie Couric?

[eshalom]

The anti-feminists bloggers are at it again. Geez, you can't even applaud someone for demonstrating a yoga technique. Are you that seriously threatened by a woman in a leadership role? As someone familiar with Buddhist teachings, I try to feel compassion for those with obviously limited capacities to relate positively to other human beings, but it's tough to do on this message board.

[TheEmptinessOfTruthiness]

This is Katie Couric. An individual, not a symbol of ALL womynhood.

BTW, since I'm here....

Navy SEALS do in fact, Rawwwwk. Katie Couric, though, not so much.

[11907281]

Ummm, I think the comment was about her acting as a campaign surrogate for McCain at the expense of her journalistic standards. Where does bobs say anything about being threatened? Is question a persons credibility anti-feminist is the person is a woman? Compassion is great but reality is what we have, and what we do about it is what we will leave the next generation. Maybe you can use your compassion a little more next time when you insinuate someone is being a misogynist because they disagree with you.