Tammy,<\/p>\n
The other day I went to yoga at a gym.\u00a0 After class started the teacher said that later on we would be going to the bar.\u00a0 “Cool,” I thought.\u00a0 The class and teacher would chat and get to know each other.\u00a0 That would build the yoga community.\u00a0 This was the first class I ever had with this teacher and I was pretty psyched.\u00a0 No other yoga teacher of mine had ever encouraged a class of students to go for a brew after class.<\/p>\n
We did the usual sun salutations and started to get into some more sophisticated poses.\u00a0 I was getting sweaty.\u00a0 I like this as it means I’m getting a workout.<\/p>\n
The end of class was approaching and the teacher told us to go to the back of the room.\u00a0 She told us to raise one leg and put it on a wooden beam that extended six inches from the wall and ran the entire width of the wall.\u00a0 “This,” she announced “is\u00a0 the bar.”\u00a0 What?\u00a0 What about the post-class coldness to relax muscles?\u00a0 Uh, not after this yoga class.<\/p>\n
Apparently the upper levels of yoga involve a ballet bar.\u00a0 Ballet!\u00a0 Ballet!\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve looked at an issue or two of Yoga Journal and I don’t remember seeing anything about ballet.\u00a0 What’s going on?\u00a0 Did I just spend almost two years getting into something that would end up with me wearing slippers with tassles on them?\u00a0 Would I be expected to wear tutus and pink tops?\u00a0 What kind of Crying Game is yoga?\u00a0 Maybe I should do some research before I start something new.\u00a0 I think I’m going to the bar and figure out what to do with all of the free time I will now have.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, The other day I went to yoga at a gym.\u00a0 After class started the teacher said that later on we would be going to the bar.\u00a0 “Cool,” I thought.\u00a0 The class and teacher would chat and get to know each other.\u00a0 That would build the yoga community.\u00a0 This was the first class I ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,12,10,67,8],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-yoga","tag-be-yoga","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class","tag-yoga-deception","tag-yoga-pose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}