{"id":845,"date":"2012-04-13T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:45:10","slug":"what-is-yoga-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/04\/what-is-yoga-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>Last night\u00a0 I saw a hilarious movie and a few live comics; a late night full of laughs.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the outdoor yoga class early in the morning today.\u00a0 Apparently the teacher said hi to me right before the class started, but I didn&#8217;t even notice.\u00a0 I must&#8217;ve been in the &#8220;yoga zone&#8221; before class even started.\u00a0 How cool! I was totally focused.\u00a0 No sports psychologist, astrologist, or craniologist necessary here.<\/p>\n<p>During class I suddenly felt something touching me.\u00a0 First I thought it was a little gecko as they run rampant here in South Florida.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 One of those little guys crawling all over my body during downward dog would have been totally skeevy.\u00a0 Then my mind went to an army of ants; nope, they race pretty fast and I would have succumbed to their full body invasion immediately.\u00a0 My iliotibial (it) bands (yep, both left and right) were apparently crumbling from a life&#8217;s worth of non use when I finally realized it was the teacher.\u00a0 I think she said something in yoga speak to the effect of loosen up dude, take it easy.\u00a0 Be in the moment.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>After like sixteen months of yoga I thought I was totally relaxed and present.\u00a0 Second thought, maybe you need a lot of sleep to do yoga; otherwise, stay home in shivasana.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, Last night\u00a0 I saw a hilarious movie and a few live comics; a late night full of laughs. 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