{"id":930,"date":"2012-05-25T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=930"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:45:10","slug":"meditation-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/05\/meditation-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Ominous Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night I went to the beach for a yoga class.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that a cool way to finish a weekend?<\/p>\n<p>As I was driving to the beach I could see a big black cloud just north of where our class was going to be held.\u00a0 It had been raining most of the afternoon around the area.\u00a0 I was really not up for muddy beach yoga.\u00a0 Once I placed my mat down on the beach, I looked into the ocean and saw what looked suspicious.\u00a0 It was a black object that was floating on the top of the water.\u00a0 My first thought was that a whale had too much to eat and deposited his\/her waste in these waters.\u00a0 Yuk!\u00a0 My alternative theory:\u00a0 it was someone&#8217;s head that was separated from the rest of his\/her decomposed body.\u00a0 Where is Mariska Hargitay when you need her?\u00a0 Okay so I watch of lot of Law &amp; Order SVU and I had just seen the movie The Love Guru.\u00a0 As the class started I was looking to the horizon for a focus point and saw a big grey ship.\u00a0 It looked like a battle ship.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the class started, I went into corpse pose for the rest of the class to calm my mind down and avoid the madness.\u00a0 After all, how could anybody properly think about yoga with all that stuff floating in his head?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out none of the concerns came to fruition.\u00a0 It threatened but never rained, the black object was some sort of seaweed clumped together, and the big grey vessel was some sort of commercial ship.\u00a0 It just goes to show, the mind can come up with a few ways to take something fun and relaxing and make it into something horrendous.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, Sunday night I went to the beach for a yoga class.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that a cool way to finish a weekend? 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