{"id":1704,"date":"2013-01-15T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:42:19","slug":"yoga-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2013\/01\/yoga-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Toga! Toga! I Mean Yoga Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy,<\/p>\n<p>It was my first yoga class in a while and it felt weird.\u00a0 I mean, what&#8217;s the perception of someone who hasn\u2019t been to a yoga class in a while?\u00a0 As I looked at all the bodies flat on the ground, all I could think of was John Belushi, I mean Bluto, in Animal House:\u00a0 \u201cHey! What&#8217;s this lyin&#8217; around sh*t?\u201d\u00a0 The people were barely clothed but this wasn\u2019t a toga party.\u00a0 What were we doing?\u00a0 Why were they, and I, doing this so early on a Saturday morning?\u00a0 It\u2019s not gonna help my GPA.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I can put it on my resume.<\/p>\n<p>My warrior wasn\u2019t solid and I was surely susceptible to enemy attacks.\u00a0 The heels of my downward dog weren\u2019t touching the ground but I didn\u2019t feel high.\u00a0 I was quivering in vasisthasana as my brain made a futile attempt at translating sanskrit.<\/p>\n<p>In a strange way I felt exhilarated as we flowed through the poses.\u00a0 I felt out of my mind and surely looked crazy so maybe I should wear a toga to the next class.\u00a0 I can visualize it now:\u00a0 A little bit louder now.\u00a0 Shout!\u00a0 Shout!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy, It was my first yoga class in a while and it felt weird.\u00a0 I mean, what&#8217;s the perception of someone who hasn\u2019t been to a yoga class in a while?\u00a0 As I looked at all the bodies flat on the ground, all I could think of was John Belushi, I mean Bluto, in Animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[12,10,20],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-2","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-teacher-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toga! 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