Tammy,<\/p>\n
Recently I tried something new in your yoga class.\u00a0 I wanted to really get into whatever it is that real yoga people, yogis, experience while practicing.<\/p>\n
It was right after you gave the first instruction that I tried my new yoga accessory, eyes closed during class.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what to expect but I was hoping for peace, friendliness, enlightenment, and exhilaration.\u00a0 You started the classes and physically I could achieve most of the poses without looking; however, a weightless, stress-free, soothing state of being failed to arrive.\u00a0 I was far from fantasy land.\u00a0 Rather my thoughts were totally occupied by sweat washing all over my body.\u00a0 My nose was now in full bloom as the remaining senses compensate for any missing.\u00a0\u00a0 To make matters worse, I was trying to concentrate on exclusively breathing through my nose, ujjayi style.\u00a0 The lovely fragrance I perceived was that of a men\u2019s locker room.\u00a0 The studio is clean and I know it wasn\u2019t me, so how could the pungent odor have appeared so soon after the class started?\u00a0 Wait a second, could it have been me?\u00a0 You\u2019ve never said anything, though, you are diplomatically polite and try to run away from me after class.\u00a0 With all this swimming in my mind, I opened my eyes to try tree pose.\u00a0 I guess the land of hopes and dreams doesn\u2019t include balance as my body resembled a weeping willow during a hurricane.\u00a0 Marking a conclusion to the experiment, the body of one of my mat neighbors was a little late in celebrating New Year\u2019s Eve and my nose received an inauspicious welcome to 2012.<\/p>\n
If this is what people rave about yoga, maybe I should take up internet stair climbing.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, Recently I tried something new in your yoga class.\u00a0 I wanted to really get into whatever it is that real yoga people, yogis, experience while practicing. It was right after you gave the first instruction that I tried my new yoga accessory, eyes closed during class.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know what to expect but I […]<\/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":[23,55,59,12,73,58],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-breathing","tag-focus","tag-ujjayi","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-bliss","tag-yoga-daydream"],"yoast_head":"\n