Käärme Yoga, the 'Random Way' pioneered by yogi Vyper Drak,

enjoys an avid following in a somewhat unexpected locale,

according to this week's Le Monde: the ski chalets of France.

"You can't toss a ski boot at Chamonix or Alpe d'Huez without

knocking someone off their mat these days," a man in a gleaming

silver ski jacket and Ray-Bans told the paper. "It's crazy.

Ten years ago it was whisky. Twenty years ago it was weed.

Now everybody's drinking wheatgrass and chanting 'Om'.

Is that better? he shrugs. "Je ne sais pas. Me, I miss the

fistfights." Followers of Käärme ('Viper') Yoga assume the

extemporaneous asanas invented on the spot by founder

Vyper Drak, simulcast over the internet daily, and chat his

spontaneously improvised chants. "You don't know what's

coming. You just never know what's coming," explained one

acolyte, adopting a pose invented just moments before called

Amber Dragon Taking Wing Over The Blasted Heath. "That's

what makes it true. That's what makes it beautiful."