{"id":354,"date":"2011-12-30T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=354"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:44:13","slug":"hot-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2011\/12\/hot-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Yoga Studio Causes Mind Clearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>It was really hot tonight in your class.\u00a0 We were 15 minutes into the class and I had to take off my shirt.\u00a0 It&#8217;s taken me awhile but I think I may have gotten over the body image and body hair neuroses; even if I didn&#8217;t, we were now talking about avoiding heat exhaustion.\u00a0\u00a0 I am sure the other students were overheating too and didn&#8217;t have the chance to worry about my skeletal deformities.\u00a0 As a guy I was pretty lucky that I had the luxury of going topless.\u00a0 Sorry ladies, you get revenge when I exit the studio and regular people see me in yoga clothing.\u00a0 I was thinking that if it was this hot, I should be getting a tan.\u00a0 Perhaps the the studio\u00a0should invest in some tanning lamps.<\/p>\n<p>Without a shirt it was still pretty unbearable.\u00a0 I\u00a0 felt delusional and then all of a sudden I was doing Warrior III.\u00a0 I had been trying that pose with you for months and now my dehydrated brain didn&#8217;t have the chance to think about any balance or fear issues.\u00a0 I just followed your instructions and nothing else claimed any cerebral space.\u00a0 All I had to do was look over at you and imitate what you were doing.\u00a0 It was monkey see, monkey do.<\/p>\n<p>If your yoga studio does change over to heated classes, I think they should serve cold beers after such an experience.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, It was really hot tonight in your class.\u00a0 We were 15 minutes into the class and I had to take off my shirt.\u00a0 It&#8217;s taken me awhile but I think I may have gotten over the body image and body hair neuroses; even if I didn&#8217;t, we were now talking about avoiding heat exhaustion.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[31,55,74,49,12,8],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-yoga","tag-daydream","tag-focus","tag-hot-yoga","tag-warrior-iii","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-pose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}