{"id":1449,"date":"2012-10-22T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:42:19","slug":"meditation-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/10\/meditation-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Noises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>I was at a yoga class this week.\u00a0 We were doing a pose which involves a lot of stretching and produces a lot of stress; well, at least in my mind.\u00a0 I heard a noise that was louder than a yogi\u2019s normal ujjayi breathing.\u00a0 It was more powerful than an asthmatic dying from a wheezing attack.\u00a0 It was like somebody was snoring really, really loudly; in fact, it sounded like a wildebeest was roaming around the room.\u00a0 I was skeeved and my skin started to crawl.\u00a0 What&#8217;s going on?\u00a0 What&#8217;s the matter with this thing?\u00a0 Wait a second.\u00a0 Nobody brought their animal to class today.\u00a0 Could a person actually sound this way?\u00a0 I hope he has it checked out; if not, the next thing you know everybody will start making the loudest and strangest noises.\u00a0 The type A personalities will battle to have the best yoga noise and they will be put on Yoga Journal&#8217;s website.\u00a0 If the hideous noise is stopped now, an epidemic similar to the grunting in tennis will be narrowly averted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m entitled to a pristine class, without revolting noises.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that a promise in the brochure of every yoga studio?\u00a0 After all, how can I practice my focus if there is something distracting me?<\/p>\n<p>Gary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, I was at a yoga class this week.\u00a0 We were doing a pose which involves a lot of stretching and produces a lot of stress; well, at least in my mind.\u00a0 I heard a noise that was louder than a yogi\u2019s normal ujjayi breathing.\u00a0 It was more powerful than an asthmatic dying from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,68,10,69,8],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-class-2","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-breathing","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-noise","tag-yoga-pose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yoga Noises? 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