{"id":1140,"date":"2012-08-12T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:42:20","slug":"yoga-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/08\/yoga-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On Yoga Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>I attended a &#8220;hands on&#8221; yoga class.<\/p>\n<p>First the teachers said they were going to massage some Chinese gel into our shoulders.\u00a0 Since we are in South Florida where they&#8217;ve had problems with asbestos in Chinese drywall, I immediately became fearful that this class may be carcinogenic.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter while I was in downward dog, a teacher put a harness around my waist and started pulling me backwards.\u00a0 What are they trying to make me into?\u00a0 A rickshaw driver.\u00a0 Then, while in child&#8217;s pose, one of the teachers had me reach my hands forward and grab her ankles.\u00a0 The thought crossed my mind that I was going to be attached to something by the other teacher and become become part of a human trafficking scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately my brain eventually shut off, the neurosis went away, and I started to feel a slow bit of exhilaration run through my whole being.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, I attended a &#8220;hands on&#8221; yoga class. First the teachers said they were going to massage some Chinese gel into our shoulders.\u00a0 Since we are in South Florida where they&#8217;ve had problems with asbestos in Chinese drywall, I immediately became fearful that this class may be carcinogenic.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter while I was in downward [&hellip;]<\/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":[45,12,10],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-be-yoga","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}