Tammy,<\/p>\n
Saturday I went to a rock & roll yoga class.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of class I heard Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ over the speaker system, except something was different.\u00a0 Usually my mind thinks exclusively of the hot, skateboarding woman in the video.\u00a0 This time I was actually listening to the lyrics and for the first time I figured out what the song is about.\u00a0 Thanks John Mayer.<\/p>\n
Toward the end of the class the teacher told us to squat on the ground.\u00a0 We then raised our bottoms, bent over, and tried to put our inner thighs on the back of our upper arms, crow style.\u00a0 I had trouble getting into the pose, so the teacher said to look forward.\u00a0 I took a leap of faith and for a brief second I was flying; that’s the word yogis use, right?\u00a0 Well, then my body flew forward and my head went clunk against the ground.\u00a0 Hmm, I was thinking, was I body checked?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Was I punched?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I’m doing yoga.\u00a0 I was a little woozy when I heard the song playing at that moment, Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond.\u00a0 My brain rattled around and I couldn’t even figure out what symbolism was.<\/p>\n
I guess when I heard Jack Johnson’s Upside Down early in class I should have realized that things were going to be mind altering.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n
PS\u00a0 Something else happened in class.\u00a0 At one point, the teacher told us to unclench our butts.\u00a0 What was that all about?\u00a0 All I could think of were the lines from Predator 2:\u00a0 “Okay everybody, just take a deep breath.\u00a0 Loosen your sphincters.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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