Tammy,<\/p>\n
So I arrive in your class one day.\u00a0 There is a guy there and I hear him happy that another guy (me) will be in the class.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think about it much.\u00a0 Then the guy rattles off a whole bunch of maladies and how he is affected by them.\u00a0 I quickly decide that I will place my mat as far from him as possible.\u00a0 After a class wherein you had us try a bunch of different poses, in what seemed like slow motion, I heard the guy complaining about his maladies even more now that the class was over.<\/p>\n
I definitely avoided the guy on the way out.\u00a0 I found myself thinking this guy was tremendously annoying.\u00a0 Fortunately these thoughts did not come up during class.\u00a0 He made it clear he was into women, so why was he happy when the room became more filled with testosterone?\u00a0\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t his odds with women be greater if there was less competition?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what this guy was all about.\u00a0 Why did he brag about his aches and pains?\u00a0 Would the women be impressed by that?\u00a0 Maybe I am out of touch with picking up women as I’m in a relationship, but I still think they like masculine guys that appear to have their act together.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Are women attracted to insecurity these days?\u00a0 Are they into skinny guys who can\u2019t fix anything or maybe they fancy guys who cower late at night when there\u2019s a strange noise outside your house?<\/p>\n
Maybe my real question is:\u00a0 should I care about this dude and\/or let him bother me?\u00a0 After all, in class I don\u2019t think about him.\u00a0 I am judging the malingerer, right?\u00a0 In yoga the aim appears to be void yourself of judgment.\u00a0 Does yoga promote helping a fellow man or letting him\/her be?\u00a0 I\u2019m probably not properly qualified to help the guy but I could tell him that women are more than likely rarely ever turned on by his verbal self-mutilation.\u00a0 As a teacher, do you try to loosen him up and tell him to take it easy or let him be and hope he figures things out?<\/p>\n
Did you say this yoga thing is supposed to be relaxing and freeing of the mind?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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