{"id":406,"date":"2012-01-17T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=406"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:46:01","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/01\/meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Yoga Affect Driving?  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You see, I have an octogenarian neighbor who got three months in jail for brandishing a gun at another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Why did these out-of-body experiences occur?\u00a0 Are you rubbing Zoloft into my system when you message my head during shivasana?\u00a0 Is the shoulder stand calming my nervous system (pun intended).\u00a0 Have I been sweating so much in your yoga class that my aggressive impulses are transforming into good kharma?<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, I was on my way to the beach recently.\u00a0 Being that we are in South Florida and it was the holiday season, a lot of tourists from cold weather states had the same idea.\u00a0 The traffic was heavy but not quite reaching LA Freeway levels.\u00a0 Rather than inch my way forward at every stop, [&hellip;]<\/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":[45,12,22,58,47],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-be-yoga","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-daydream","tag-yoga-laugh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Yoga Affect Driving? 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