Wag-a-Yoga: Healing & Revitalization with Kay T Ananda Yoga Therapy

車がない No car

ワープロがない No word processors

ビデオデッキがない No video

ファックスがない No fax

パソコン　インターネット　見たこともない

PC Internet what’s that?

けれど格別支障もない

Yet all is well

そんなに情報集めてどうするの

What do you do, collecting so much information?

そんなに急いで何をするの What do you rushing about so ?

頭はからっぽのまま Our head remains empty as ever

すぐに古びるがらくたは

Trash that gets old right away

我が山門に入（い）るを許さず not to be permitted to enter the sacred mountain top gate in the first place

（山門だって　木戸しかないのに）(Even though that gate is just a wooden door)

はたから見れば嘲笑の時代おくれ From others, I’m just behind times, a joke deserving conempt

けれど進んで選びとった時代おくれ But I eagerly choose to be behind times

もっともっと遅れたい I long to be more and more behind times

（「時代おくれ」より一部抜粋）Excerpt from “Behind Times”

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An excerpt from a poem by Noriko Ibaragi.  

What do you think ? Thoughts?

Refreshing?

Foolish?

Dementia candidate?

Pathetic

or

Inspiring?

Small minded?

Expansive minded?

Eccentric?

Creative?

Stuck in the past?

Living in the here and now?

Artistic?

Aging?

Grandma?

Stuck?

Wishful?

Cool?

There’s no right or wrong but it makes us wonder as the world rapidly changes with all the big data compiled, only AI can process and make sense out of. AI will surpass our human brain capabilities to do our work – then, what are we humans to do?

Guess it’s no longer about doing but … it’s about being. Being a human “being”. Noriko-san knew this.

I just got back from Japan and my mind is swimming in a flood of swirling time zones … sleeplessness then sleepiness … alternating between REM and wakefulness, all at wrong times. zzz A bit like Yoga Nidra self imposed … do we dream over different zones?

In international flights do we pack in one film after another staring into the bright screen earphones shutting off our surroundings ? Or do we look out the window daydreaming with clouds floating about and so are your thoughts ruminating ?

Which?