{"id":1109,"date":"2012-07-29T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:45:09","slug":"yoga-pose-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/07\/yoga-pose-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Yoga Supposed to Feel Like This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had a couple of peculiar yoga classes.<\/p>\n<p>In the first one, the teacher told us to get into child&#8217;s pose.\u00a0 I complied and then she promptly sat on my bum.<\/p>\n<p>In the other class, the teacher had us do a pose I&#8217;ve never heard of and I can&#8217;t remember the name.\u00a0 We were told to lie on our backs and cross our legs at the knees.\u00a0 Our legs were supposed to go out to the sides.\u00a0 The teacher came over and pushed my knees into my body.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I had the most amazing feeling.\u00a0 It was like someone was hugging those parts of my body.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t sexual, just comforting beyond belief.\u00a0 There was no vibe with the teacher, just nirvana for me.<\/p>\n<p>They say yoga is supposed to feel good.\u00a0 Well, these were the first instances that I&#8217;ve ever felt such a truly euphoric feeling in any part of my body during a yoga class.\u00a0 Is this the feeling you&#8217;re supposed to get in yoga?\u00a0 If it is, I might be like a crack addict trying to chase after those first couple of highs for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, In the past couple of weeks I&#8217;ve had a couple of peculiar yoga classes. In the first one, the teacher told us to get into child&#8217;s pose.\u00a0 I complied and then she promptly sat on my bum. In the other class, the teacher had us do a pose I&#8217;ve never heard of and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,22,10],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-pose-2","tag-breathing","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-class"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Yoga Supposed to Feel Like This? - Email to My Yoga Teacher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/07\/yoga-pose-5\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gary Kahn\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/07\/yoga-pose-5\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/07\/yoga-pose-5\/\",\"name\":\"Is Yoga Supposed to Feel Like This? 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