{"id":1246,"date":"2012-09-16T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:42:19","slug":"focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/09\/focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Blog&#8217;s First Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>This is the one year anniversary of my blog.\u00a0 I wonder what posts people have liked the best.<\/p>\n<p>I guess yesterday was a good example of my yoga experience over the past year.\u00a0 It was raining while I was driving to an outdoor yoga class and I was wondering why I was going.\u00a0 I felt I would probably get sick and not be able to do yoga for a while.\u00a0\u00a0 I feared that my mat would become slippery and I would slip and fall and get injured.\u00a0 When the class started the teacher immediately ran us through some sun salutations and warrior poses.\u00a0 I felt drops of water on my mat and soon realized they were sweat, not rain drops.\u00a0 The rain and everything else had evaporated from my mind except the pose we were doing.\u00a0 Soon enough there was no rain from the sky.\u00a0 The sun even came out.<\/p>\n<p>As far as my progress in yoga, I show up every week.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t do any homework.\u00a0 Outside of\u00a0 class, I don&#8217;t think much about yoga. \u00a0 Is it possible I don&#8217;t really care much about yoga?\u00a0 What&#8217;s the irony here?\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting better at yoga.\u00a0 I can now do the crow and full wheel poses.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t try or think about other things and they&#8217;ll get better.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll start with relationships.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, This is the one year anniversary of my blog.\u00a0 I wonder what posts people have liked the best. 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