Tammy,<\/p>\n
I’m sick again.\u00a0 It may be that I was just doing too many activities and burning the yoga candle at both ends.\u00a0 Actually, it was probably the close-talking woman at the networking party who told me she had been sick on and off for 4 months but that she wasn\u2019t contagious.\u00a0 Maybe I should bottle up some of my sickness and send it to her so her malaise lasts a little longer.\u00a0 I know this isn\u2019t a yogi\u2019s way of looking at life but recently I seem to get sick for four to six weeks now, rather than the normal week.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d be proud of me.\u00a0 I looked at my intention of getting better and enjoying the world.\u00a0 I can\u2019t do any cycling nor yoga. So what can I do?\u00a0 Hey, how about meditation?\u00a0 Well, I sat in the official position for 15 minutes and the pressure of sitting up straight made the chest congestion feel worse.\u00a0 Then I thought about your classes.\u00a0 When we do shivasana in your classes, we lay down on our mats and put our hands to our side.\u00a0 Hey, I can do that.\u00a0 So, I decided to put my mat down in the house and just as you say \u201cfloat into space.\u201d\u00a0 For some reason it wasn\u2019t that comfy so I climbed onto my bed.\u00a0 I concentrated on listening to the ins and outs of my breathing.\u00a0 My back was on the bed and my arms were out to the side, face up.\u00a0 After a while, I was sleeping.\u00a0 The dream was better than usual.\u00a0 I seem to recall you saying that relaxation is the ultimate goal of yoga.\u00a0 Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n
If the goal of yoga is relaxation, why do we do all the poses?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we just learn to sleep better?\u00a0 I think I might be missing something here, but this revelation might just take down the whole yoga industry.\u00a0 Maybe we can reformat yoga as a sleep tool, build a start-up, grow it, have an IPO and sell our shares for millions.\u00a0 Then, we will have the time to actually practice what we created.\u00a0 Sickness yoga may have solved life\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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