Tammy,<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Sandy, who changed her name to Frankenstorm for Halloween, left the South Florida coast somewhat submerged so yesterday’s beach yoga class was washed away.<\/p>\n
Beach yoga classes are important to my psyche.\u00a0 After a long week, I, like most, look forward to doing fun stuff during the weekend.\u00a0 When friends won’t call me back about our plans (maybe I call them friends but they probably call me “nothing-else-to-do guy”), the Monday-through-Friday stuff has me so exhausted I nearly sleep away the weekend, or when it’s a must-do-laundry weekend, I hanker for beach yoga.\u00a0 Beach yoga is weekend salvation.\u00a0 I love the thick, cottony clouds mixed in with the warm, orange and pink colors of the sunset.\u00a0 My entire body feels like nothing matters as the hypnotizing sounds of the waves rush in and out.\u00a0 The rocks that bookend our beach “studio” inspire dreams of being in a vacation fortress.\u00a0 Did I mention that at beach yoga I can do full wheel pose?\u00a0 On the beach, the sand is forgiving so I can even do crow pose.\u00a0 Indoor yoga forces me to wear a helmet for crow attempts; surely that’s not how I like to style in yoga class.\u00a0 On the sandy shores I successfully flip the dog, well, most of the time.\u00a0 But if I were you, I wouldn’t get anywhere near my oddly raised canine leg.<\/p>\n
Somehow at beach yoga I even seem to overlook a couple of, shall we say, peeves.\u00a0 Like the senior citizen who runs through our class every week and hits on our young teacher in broken English.\u00a0 Did I mention that his shorts are barely bigger than a speedo?\u00a0 How about the drunk dude who walked by our class and insisted he could do the inverted poses?\u00a0 I thought it might be funny but the resulting sloppiness almost made him toss some pretty, pretty nasty cookies.<\/p>\n
With the clocks rolling back an hour next week, I fear my last beach yoga class of 2012 was cancelled.<\/p>\n
Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, Tropical Storm Sandy, who changed her name to Frankenstorm for Halloween, left the South Florida coast somewhat submerged so yesterday’s beach yoga class was washed away. Beach yoga classes are important to my psyche.\u00a0 After a long week, I, like most, look forward to doing fun stuff during the weekend.\u00a0 When friends won’t call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,77,70,12,10,8],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-yoga","tag-be-yoga","tag-beach-yoga","tag-laughing","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-pose"],"yoast_head":"\n