Tammy,<\/p>\n
A yoga teacher invited me to a special Halloween yoga class.<\/p>\n
I arrived and set up my mat in the darkened room.\u00a0 Suddenly I felt a couple drops of water pour down my forehead.\u00a0 I looked up and saw there were no leaks in the ceiling.\u00a0 So how could this be?\u00a0 We hadn’t even started the class yet.\u00a0 I looked around and saw something weird for a yoga studio.\u00a0 What are those machines?<\/p>\n
Just then the teacher came into the class, pointed to the machines, and said, “Welcome to hot yoga.” Oh boy!\u00a0 At least she didn’t welcome me to Bikram yoga as I nearly died of heat exhaustion the couple of times I tried that.\u00a0 A minor victory.<\/p>\n
Another scanning of the room revealed women in skin tight shorts,\u00a0 sports bras, and really toned bodies.\u00a0 I started to sweat even more.\u00a0 Subconsciously I was getting intimidated; I am a level one “yogi” and they are obviously advanced students.\u00a0 Once the class started, we got into the sophisticated poses pretty quickly.\u00a0 I felt like I was taking a steam bath, but in this strange world the scantily clad women were not the focus of my attention.\u00a0 We started moving so fast my heart began pounding like a jackhammer.\u00a0 Was I having a panic attack?\u00a0 I thought my life was starting to flash before me.<\/p>\n
I rested on my mat and gulped down an entire bottle of water.\u00a0 For the first time I noticed the women’s clothes were glowing as there were black lights in the studio.\u00a0 They looked like synchronized Cirque du Soleil performers; surely I must have messed up their tightly choreographed formations.\u00a0 To avoid any further embarrassment I fell asleep on my back.<\/p>\n
When the teacher invited me to this black light yoga class I should have realized that rather than being given a treat for Halloween, I was actually being tricked or yoga punk’d.\u00a0 I guess she was getting me back for all the times I couldn’t stop laughing in her classes.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n
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