Tammy,<\/p>\n
Little do you know but for the past month I’ve actually been doing the homework you assigned me some fourteen months ago.\u00a0 That’s right, I’m doing child’s pose every day.\u00a0 Woo hoo!\u00a0 I’m completing your assignment, albeit a little late.\u00a0 I know you’ve given up on expecting much from me.\u00a0 But come on, what do yogis say?\u00a0 When an unwanted thought pops up, go back to focusing on the breath and all is good.\u00a0 So, now that we’re all good, you and me, do you think you can go back and alter the grade on my report card from last year?<\/p>\n
In class today you were walking around the room and from a distance you could see if all of the students were properly aligned and breathing the pranayamic way.\u00a0 Towards the end of class, I laid on my back, with my palms face up, the back of my head on the mat.\u00a0 The music was barely audible.\u00a0 All of a sudden my head nodded off to the left; I came to pretty quickly.\u00a0 A minute later the same thing occurred.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter the class was over.\u00a0 While leaving the class you asked me what was going on and I couldn’t come up with anything.\u00a0 Touche was all I had.\u00a0 You were just toying with me.\u00a0 You knew I had actually achieved the goal of shivasana which is sleep; though mine were only two brief narcoleptic-type episodes.<\/p>\n
Today, right before you said namaste, you gave a homework assignment.\u00a0 The only time I remember you giving howework was 14 months ago.\u00a0 What can I say except that I reach a colossal milestone in class and you up the ante.\u00a0 Can’t I just have a post-class celebration for one moment?\u00a0 I was thinking about an end zone dance in the front of the room or a shot of Cabo Wabo.\u00a0 Don’t yogis get excited over their long-awaited triumphs, no matter how small?\u00a0 Come on, live in the moment.\u00a0 Or does the seemingly accepting yoga always have to keep bending forward without even a second of partaying?\u00a0 Didn’t the creators of yoga realize that all work and no play makes a yogi convert to pilates?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, Little do you know but for the past month I’ve actually been doing the homework you assigned me some fourteen months ago.\u00a0 That’s right, I’m doing child’s pose every day.\u00a0 Woo hoo!\u00a0 I’m completing your assignment, albeit a little late.\u00a0 I know you’ve given up on expecting much from me.\u00a0 But come on, what […]<\/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":[23,12,44,10,20,21],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-breathing","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-attitude","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-teacher-2","tag-yoga-training"],"yoast_head":"\n