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Photo of Justin Trudeau doing yoga makes the internet freak out again

Another week, another resurfaced photo of Canada's prime minister for the world to thirst over.

Another week, another resurfaced photo of Canada's prime minister for the world to enjoy

Justin Trudeau retweeted this photo of himself in April 2013 after it was published by Ottawa-based photographer Gregory Kolz with the caption, 'JT is level-headed & able to bring Canada to new heights. That's why he's my choice for #Liberal Leader.' (Twitter/@gregkolz)

He canhold his own in a boxing ring, slay thebhangra, give Magic Mike a run for his moneyanddoadvanced yoga?

Canada's "dreamy" Prime Minister JustinTrudeauis making the world swoon once again this week, simply by appearing in a photo from his ownpast though, for most people, there's nothing simple about his feat.

The photo above, taken in 2013 by freelance photographerGregory Kolz, shows the prime minister in theyoga poseMayurasana.

Also called the"peacock pose," itinvolves placing your entire weighton thewrists and hands while keeping your body straight and parallel to the floor.

It requires a great deal of balance and physical strength to pull offthis pose, and it"must only be attempted by advanced yoga students," according totheInternational Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.

"Mayurasana is more than just an impress-your-friends-at-parties yoga pose," explainssubtleyoga.com."It is one of the original Hatha Yoga practices one of the first 15 poses ever written down."

Impressive, but why is this three-year-old image going viral right now?

It appears that a Facebook post byToronto yoga teacherDavid Gellineau is responsible. "Canada's Prime MInister#justintrudeau- practicing#mayurasana. Didn't we say...#canadalovesyoga,"he wrote on the social networklate last week, including the photo from 2013.

Now, nearly 5,000 shares later, every international newsoutlet from CNN to the Guardian has written about Trudeau the yogi,inspiring a new flood of Twitter posts about how hot the Canadian prime minister is.

It's not every day that the internet sees a world leader demonstrating such incredible core and upper-body strength (outside of Russia.)

While Trudeau has shown on several occasions that he knows a thing or two about yoga, it's unclear whether he learned this particular move in class, from his wife, Sophie (a certified yoga instructor),or from his father.

Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who himself was an avid practitioner of yoga,was photographed doing the peacock poseon the shores of theNahanni River, N.W.T. in 1970, one year before Justin was born.