Tammy,<\/p>\n
Recently I went to Daytona Beach for a yoga class with someone who is renowned for being a great teacher, does world-class inversions, is really sweet, and likes to have fun and laugh.\u00a0 She\u2019s a lot like you.<\/p>\n
I took I-95 to get there and found the yoga studio which was pretty close to, but not quite on, the beach.\u00a0 The studio was right next to an Irish bar.<\/p>\n
The class started with the routine warm-up poses.\u00a0\u00a0 The pose changes then came quicker and quicker.\u00a0 I’m asthmatically challenged so intervals and fast aerobic activities are not my strong suit.\u00a0 It soon came to me that \u201cmy colleagues\u201d on the mat were teachers and veteran yoga practitioners.\u00a0 Not a problem, I would do things at my own pace.\u00a0 I soon drifted a few poses behind everybody else.\u00a0 My heart was pounding out of my body and my shirt and mat were full of sweat.\u00a0 Whoever says yoga makes you look great has obviously never tried yoga.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, the teacher then started going into some of the poses with our legs off the ground.\u00a0 I tried a couple and then it got too complicated.\u00a0 My brain recognizes the left from the right but converting that to my body and occasionally there\u2019s an issue; add some inverted positions and my mind-body coordination inverts and then flatlines.\u00a0 So I backed off and started watching\u00a0 what the teacher was displaying and asking the students to try.\u00a0 They did zoological animal poses that I didn\u2019t know were even part of yoga:\u00a0 scorpion, grasshopper, and side crow.\u00a0 It looked so cool I should have been the class photographer.\u00a0\u00a0 All the while I was laughing.\u00a0\u00a0 What was so funny about all of this?\u00a0 Was it that 50 other human beings could do things with their body that I was incapable of?\u00a0 \u00a0Was it the realization that the other participants would not appreciate me calling them \u201ccolleagues\u201d?\u00a0 \u00a0Was it that yoga allowed me to constantly laugh at failure?\u00a0 Whatever it was that day or in your classes, yoga is a big laugh (to me).\u00a0 Who cares why I laugh?\u00a0 I\u2019m going back to your class for more!<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n
P.S.\u00a0 After class I went to the Irish bar hoping to hang with all of the other yogis and talk about the class; like people do with friends after you play softball or football.\u00a0 Nobody else from the class showed up.\u00a0 Perhaps there\u2019s something else to I need to learn about the yoga world besides the poses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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