Leave it to San Francisco - the city impervious to humiliation

(Reuters) - Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation? 

San Francisco Airport has opened what it calls a first of its kind yoga room, and while it's not quite a mountaintop in Tibet, airport officials say the low lights, and soothing blue walls aim to afford travelers, stressed out or sanguine, an oasis of calm in which to flex, twist and decompress.

"As far as we know it's the first (yoga room) at an airport anywhere in the world," said Michael C. McCarron, director of community affairs for the airport.

He said the idea for the room, in the newly refurbished Terminal 2, came from a passenger suggestion at an open house. It joins the Berman reflection room, a space intended for silence and meditation located before Terminal 2 security. More here:

Wow.  It's about time, isn't it?  Why has no one thought if this before?  Pure genius, I tell ya.  Whenever I'm out traveling, it never fails to occur to me "Gee, I'd like to be doing some yoga right about now."  Never mind renting the car and getting my bags, trying to get a bite to eat ... who cares about those things when you can do some yoga.

Hey, I give it 50-50 odds the "relaxing yoga room" has a glass wall so passengers walking the concourse can see you doing your yoga.  Cuz really, I'd guess that doing yoga in the airport isn't in big demand ... even for libs ... unless they can be seen doing it ... you know ... as a lesson to their intellectual inferiors.