{"id":1508,"date":"2007-01-28T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2007-01-28T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T14:07:00","slug":"yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a whim, I went to Yoga<\/a>. This is a two hour “Vinyasa” yoga, in which they crank the heat to about 90 degrees in the room. Honestly, I may have just wanted to be warm.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I was warm. Like “wow, the yoga mat is totally slick with my sweat” warm. I can dig it. I think I want to go back. I re-discovered that (a) I’m in pretty darn good shape (b) I’m really not all that flexible (c) I have decent balance (d) yoga can be made arbitrarily difficult, simply by doing it right. <\/p>\n

I managed a “crow” pose, by sort of falling into it before realizing what I was doing. Just following instructions, you know, and all of a sudden I’m in some crazy yoga position, balanced on my hands. I think that what I’m trying to say is that the instructor was really good. <\/p>\n

In any event, there’s a punch line. The class ended with meditation. I find that I can slip into a calm \/ abiding state of mind fairly easily these days. It was even easier after all the stretching and exertion. As my mind relaxed, I started feeling a little lightheaded. Heat … remember? Anyway, I had a fleeting thought that I might levitate right off the ground. Don’t some swamis claim to have achieved that? Almost instantly, a very clear thought spiked through my consciousness:<\/p>\n

Meat don’t float<\/center><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Well, duh. There you go. Calm abiding leads to omniscient knowledge. Thanks for bringing me back to earth, universal consciousness. <\/p>\n

Hippity hop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a whim, I went to Yoga. This is a two hour “Vinyasa” yoga, in which they crank the heat to about 90 degrees in the room. Honestly, I may have just wanted to be warm.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I was warm. Like “wow, the yoga mat is totally slick with my sweat” warm. I can dig . . . → Read More: Yoga<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}