Tammy,<\/p>\n
I think I may be\u00a0 turning into a yogaholic.\u00a0 Can you tell me if I am in need of a twelve-step flow, I mean program?\u00a0 Will I need an anti-yoga intervention?\u00a0 Will you be my sponsor?<\/p>\n
I practice yoga with you once a week. I go to Barnes & Noble a couple of times a week under the pretense that I drink coffee and read the paper. Actually I read all the yoga magazines and books. I\u2019m lucky because my B&N has the yoga section in a back corner.\u00a0 When nobody\u2019s looking and the surveillance cameras have panned by, I dream about sneaking in a vinyasa and sometimes a full sun salutation. That would be awesome.\u00a0 It would be like my yoga coming out party.<\/p>\n
It feels like I\u2019ve worn out all the yoga dvds from the library; I believe I’m now banned from checking out any and all yoga materials. Those cretins! I think I even saw a picture of me with a diagonal red line through it at the checkout desk; they claim I recently tried to sneak out the newest yoga picture book.<\/p>\n
I get in such a zone during yoga that my focus blocks out any portion of reality.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what I do in this state of mind.\u00a0 How can I be responsible for my actions during such enlightened flashes?\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard about the guy who was forced to wear an ankle bracelet because he called the local sports radio station 250 times requesting a yoga class be broadcast over the air.\u00a0 At his restraining order hearing, I heard his lawyer argued that it was only 238 calls.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only called around 50 times, but I block my number before dialing.<\/p>\n
When my ham strings and quads need the boost, I scan Groupon, Living Social, and even craigslist for a cheap unlimited month of yoga. Those deals are only for new customers but I convince the yoga studio owner that I am so desperate I will disavow Buddha if he\/she won\u2019t let me have the deal.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even believe in Buddha but I know I\u2019m striking a nerve and that\u2019s the way to get what I must have.<\/p>\n
This Thanksgiving I will participating in a three hour yoga workshop, thereby missing my family. Somehow I think they won\u2019t regret my annual twenty minute evaporation from the holiday dinner table. I tell them my stomach is sick, but I believe they know what I\u2019m up to. You see, during recent desserts I heard them muttering my meditation mantra.<\/p>\n
What do you think?\u00a0 Are these normal signs of a person doing yoga or am I slipping off the yoga mat of sanity?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, I think I may be\u00a0 turning into a yogaholic.\u00a0 Can you tell me if I am in need of a twelve-step flow, I mean program?\u00a0 Will I need an anti-yoga intervention?\u00a0 Will you be my sponsor? I practice yoga with you once a week. I go to Barnes & Noble a couple of times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[45,55,12,10,21],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-be-yoga","tag-focus","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-training"],"yoast_head":"\n