{"id":13274,"date":"2016-02-08T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=13274"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:34:49","slug":"too-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/too-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Serious &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s some humor:)  I&#8217;ve been too serious and so here&#8217;s for some laughs &#8211; It&#8217;s too funny &#8211; Such a parody of &#8220;body-beautiful&#8221;-centric yoga at the gyms (nothing is wrong with that &#8211; &#8220;body beautiful&#8221; (BK&#8217;s term &#8211; ahh-ha &#8211; glad to find someone on the same wavelength:) &#8211; however that&#8217;s interpreted by your own standards &#8211; but there&#8217;s so much more to yoga&#8217;s offering:) It would be a shame if that&#8217;s all there was when there&#8217;s a cosmic universe within its multitude of layers upon layers under the surface of &#8220;body-beautiful&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wXKbhDah-eA<\/p>\n<p>and BTW, do you know what &#8220;Namaste&#8221; means?<br \/>\n&#8220;The divinity within me greets the divinity within you&#8221; &#8211; No, yoga is not a religion but We all have that &#8230; &#8220;spark&#8221;:)<br \/>\nwhatever you might call it.  It&#8217;s a nice reminder.<\/p>\n<p>*  Hope this Utube clip by CollegeHumor does not offend anyone &#8211; has over 2 million views &#8211; I admire and respect Mahatma Gandhi greatly.  But I think he too can take a joke and would enjoy this satire, depicting yoga in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s some humor:) I&#8217;ve been too serious and so here&#8217;s for some laughs &#8211; It&#8217;s too funny &#8211; Such a parody of &#8220;body-beautiful&#8221;-centric yoga at the gyms (nothing is wrong with that &#8211; &#8220;body beautiful&#8221; (BK&#8217;s term &#8211; ahh-ha &#8211; glad to find someone on the same wavelength:) &#8211; however that&#8217;s interpreted by your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13274"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13274\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}