Tammy,<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been practicing yoga for a little over a year and I somehow comprehend a few things about it.\u00a0 But what does the person who has never been to a class think of yoga?<\/p>\n
Recently I saw an older woman in a yoga class who must have heard that yoga is relaxing and calming.\u00a0 Why do I say that?\u00a0 Well, she came to class in a pair of long, black, cotton pants.\u00a0 She had on one of those white\/opaque, long sleeve blouses covering a white bra\/camisole thing.\u00a0 To her, relaxing seemed to mean hanging out on a comfy couch with a glass of wine, maybe talking to a suitor.\u00a0 Yes, she was able to participate in the class, and despite the limiting clothing, she was fairly flexible.<\/p>\n
I know one of my friends (a guy) thinks yoga\u2019s a bunch of leotarded women doing a mild form of ballet while listening to new age music.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not forget the incense and the teachings of veganism and togetherism.\u00a0 I know he\u2019s afraid to be in the same locker room with me.<\/p>\n
Another friend asks if yoga is therapy.\u00a0 He wonders why I talk about focusing on what\u2019s in front of me and why I talk about being in the moment.\u00a0 He asks, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you pay attention to anything anybody else does?\u201d I tell him that in yoga you don\u2019t compare yourself to other people; I bring that practice straight to real life.\u00a0 That\u2019s a good thing, right?<\/p>\n
Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tammy, I\u2019ve been practicing yoga for a little over a year and I somehow comprehend a few things about it.\u00a0 But what does the person who has never been to a class think of yoga? Recently I saw an older woman in a yoga class who must have heard that yoga is relaxing and calming.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}