Yoga and the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons become one in a Brooklyn class created by Scott Wayne Indiana, ABC News reported. According to the artist, who probably has the greatest website format I've ever seen, the trend has spread to Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas (two cities known for their free-wheeling, alternative cultures).

Appropriate that Indiana's enterprise would start in Brooklyn, home to more combination bars (featuring skee-ball, hot shot basketball, 25 cent arcade games, and more) than probably any city in the country. (This trend is significantly less popular in the other major city I lived -- Chicago.)

D&D Yoga, as it is abbreviated, is a relatively new phenomenon and thus its execution is still basic (one minor criticism of hardcore D&D fans). Contrary to the actual game, where players assume the persona of a variety of characters, yoga-performing participants typically play the same role in order to keep the class in sync, movement-wise. At least that was the case during the class covered by ABC (and in the video I watched).

Unfortunately (or fortunately), I don't know exactly how D&D works (beyond the time they once played it in "Big Bang Theory", but its yoga format begins with the rolling of the dice, mimicked by a specially designed position. Depending on the roll and its meaning within the context of the game (narrated by Indiana, players adapt to the next pose, such as "Sword One" and "Falling."

Somewhat strangely, Indiana isn't a self-described aficionado of the game (and seems to lean more towards the yoga side). He justifies his right to mix the two via friends who play.

"I am definitely not making fun of them and I have a lot of friends who play Dungeons and Dragons," Indiana, 40, told ABC. "I understand the stereotypes. When you do yoga, it's usually a meditative experience and you are very focused. So it's not much of a stretch to substitute what the mental activity brings when there is a narrative along with it."

Indiana also pointed out a D&D resurgence among hipsters, perhaps propagated by the "gateway game," Settlers of Catan.

"Yoga is becoming a trendy thing and oddly, there is a kind of resurgence of D & D among the hipster crowd," he said. "It's more of a cross-over of two communities."

D&D Yoga from 39forks on Vimeo.