Seat of Our Pants » Yoga http://www.seatsofourpants.com An around the world travel blog Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:08:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Either You Get It, Or You Don’t http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/03/07/either-you-get-it-or-you-dont/ http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/03/07/either-you-get-it-or-you-dont/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:44:52 +0000 Jaime http://www.seatsofourpants.com/?p=3427 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Once upon a time I made a video reenactment of my experience in a Dharamsala yoga class. I put it on Youtube so I could share it on our blog. It’s since been watched over 150 times, with varying reactions. I will make no excuses for the video, but I will leave you with the words of three people that hated it so much, they just had to share:

 

“Yeah!..what a shame you find a 6000 year old science, that I have personally seen having amazing health benefits on children with autism, people re-generating their spines after serious accidents, asthmatics and degenerative diseases, is considered so hilarious. Maybe one day you’ll rediscover it and take this rather offensive clip off the web…..”



“Just because you preface by saying that this video is not meant to offend, does not mean that you don’t offend by your flippant attitude toward this very spiritual, sacred act. Fortunately, most practitioners of this ancient art who recognize what you are doing have better things to do on the planet, than to be offended by this.”

 

“Good for entertaining friends and family. And I don’t agree with the sanctimoniousness of the other comments. But sloppy observation leads to bad parody. It’s just not funny, sorry.”

 

 

What do you all think?

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]]> http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/03/07/either-you-get-it-or-you-dont/feed/ 2 Yoga in India http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2009/10/11/yoga-in-india/ http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2009/10/11/yoga-in-india/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:52:48 +0000 Jaime http://www.seatsofourpants.com/?p=1816 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> En route to becoming a full-fledged hippie India traveler, I’ve been testing out the various yoga options offered in McLeod Ganj and Rishikesh. I was a regular student of Bikram Yoga (hatha yoga taken in a heated room) when we lived in San Francisco. It’s a rigid, balls-to-the-wall form of yoga and totally my kind of exercise.

 

Naively, I was hoping for something similar in India. Rishikesh gave me a good option – Iyengar yoga, which focused on minute detail of postures. It was tough and if we liked Rishikesh more, I would take more of these classes. McLeod Ganj, on the other hand, almost ruined yoga in India for me. Check out the video below for two of the moves we did in class.

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