{"id":706,"date":"2012-03-02T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=706"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:46:01","slug":"be-yoga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/03\/be-yoga-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga on the breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>The other day you caught me grimacing during a pose and told me to breathe and smile.\u00a0 Why is breathing given such a big focus in yoga?<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re concentrating on your breath, you fail to take life for granted.\u00a0 You fail to worry that you&#8217;re doing triangle pose wrong and you fail to care that your shorts are riding down and someone might see a small part of your butt.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I\u2019m in your level one class so I\u2019m just concentrating on achieving some semblance of the basic poses and simultaneously breathing smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>In the advanced yoga classes do they teach multi-tasking like breathing and thinking?\u00a0 How can I grow into a mature yogi if we continue to do the happy baby pose?\u00a0 Let\u2019s start practicing the snotty teenager pose; my sense of humor might fit in better.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible we concentrate our thoughts on each breath so we live life in the moment, here and now?<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, The other day you caught me grimacing during a pose and told me to breathe and smile.\u00a0 Why is breathing given such a big focus in yoga? When you&#8217;re concentrating on your breath, you fail to take life for granted.\u00a0 You fail to worry that you&#8217;re doing triangle pose wrong and you fail to [&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":[45,23,55,12,44,14],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-yoga-3","tag-be-yoga","tag-breathing","tag-focus","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-attitude","tag-yoga-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}