Tammy,<\/p>\n
Recently I went on a bicycle ride right next to the beach.\u00a0 This is something I do often. \u00a0\u00a0It was the middle of the day and extremely hot.<\/p>\n
A couple of miles up the road, my bicycle computer indicated that I was cruising.\u00a0 In fact, I was going a full 3 miles faster than my average speed.\u00a0 It was a little weird.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t pushing any harder than normal on the pedals.\u00a0 There was almost no wind.\u00a0 I was riding alone and wasn\u2019t in anybody\u2019s \u201cslipstream.\u201d\u00a0 I wondered what I had been doing differently that was making me ride quicker.\u00a0 I was sweating profusely and started having either a daydream, or perhaps a hallucination.\u00a0 I thought I saw a big parade float in the sky pulling me forward.\u00a0 As I drew nearer I realized that the float was not a cartoon character but a person doing a yoga pose with the head and back bent over in an aerodynamic position.\u00a0 The phantom character was smiling down at me.\u00a0 Then I realized I was actually picturing, you, my yoga teacher, in Warrior III, a pose I\u2019ve never been able to master.<\/p>\n
At first I was a little confused as to why I would be daydreaming about yoga during my ride.\u00a0\u00a0 Then it struck me.\u00a0 I realized my head was tucked down and my back was parallel to the ground.\u00a0 I was as close as I\u2019d ever come to Warrior III and I was pretty satisfied.\u00a0 My subconscious had put me in a pose that helped my cycling without me even realizing it.\u00a0 Three cheers for yoga!<\/p>\n
I also realized I was relaxed enough to follow the vision in my head.\u00a0 What\u2019s that old clich\u00e9?\u00a0 When the student is ready, the teacher will appear in a strange place.\u00a0 In my case, the old clich\u00e9 might actually be that if you see parade floats in your head, the little men with the white suits will soon be tying you up.<\/p>\n
I guess the next question is how can I relax like this in class so I can do all of the poses and skip to the advanced level classes?<\/p>\n
This week is Thanksgiving so thank you Tammy for being my teacher and for the apparition on the bicycle.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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