You know, it’s not very often that I get the opportunity to post a picture of a rather attractive and scantily clad woman here on ShrinkGeek and still have the right to claim that my doing so is in the realm of “legitimate” reporting.  Today just happens to be one of those days.

Fitness model and former World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Trish Stratus announced on Thursday that she is partnering up with Frima Studios to produce Stratusphere, an exergame that will focus on using Yoga as a “real workout.”  The game will use the Wii Balance Board along with other peripherals and include video segments of Stratus encouraging the players on.

I’ve bemoaned the lack of Yoga in recent games like EA SPORTS Active, and I felt that the Yoga in Wii Fit was decent but that (like all workouts with Wii Fit) it’s very difficult to get into a rhythm when you have to stop between each exercise to pick the next one.  It will be very interesting to see a fitness game that is based almost exclusively on Yoga, but I do have to wonder if there is going to be any significant cardiovascular exercise in it.

Frima Studios says the game should take about six months to develop.  No publisher has been chosen as of yet, but they are hoping to release the game in the second quarter of 2010.