{"id":71,"date":"2011-11-25T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:44:13","slug":"about-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2011\/11\/about-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Yoga Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>For the second time I went to visit my father and step mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u00a0 They moved there about 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They picked me up from the airport.\u00a0 It was night when my dad\u2019s car was about a mile from his house.\u00a0\u00a0 I was pretty tired from a long day of travel and having a mild allergy problem.\u00a0 In my oozy state I looked out the window and saw something I didn\u2019t see the first time I visited.\u00a0 A street sign indicated that the next turn signal would be the split between Western Trail and Namaste Road.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see this sign on the first trip.<\/p>\n<p>They say when the student is ready the teacher will appear.\u00a0 Am I ready?\u00a0 Was I born again the second I saw this momentous sign?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been doing yoga for many months with you and my quads are still weak.\u00a0 My body isn\u2019t lined up along a single plane in Warrior II pose.\u00a0 I find the Sanskrit and English names of the poses pretty wacky and laugh at them in class.\u00a0 Was this the sign that you and yoga are telling me that I should do a life-long meditation along the Western Trail?\u00a0 Along Namaste Road there is a STOP sign right below the street sign; did I pass this anti-yoga sign so that I would get the hint and stop going to your classes?<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, For the second time I went to visit my father and step mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u00a0 They moved there about 3 years ago. 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