{"id":21619,"date":"2018-11-14T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=21619"},"modified":"2018-11-14T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T01:37:23","slug":"why-am-i-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/why-am-i-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21615\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4891-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spiritual&#8221; dining??? and &#8220;religious&#8221; nightlife ??? What?!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21614 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4882-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smoke was seen coming out from rooftop earlier&#8230;Coming from California, had no appreciation for such fire and smoke display.\u00a0 Made my stomach turn actually.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21616\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4873-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not his fan or anything and did not eat here but I recall the quote my yoga teacher used that was apparently his.\u00a0 Per this teacher, he told one chef that her\/his cooking was too complicated to cover her\/his insecurities, inadequacies &#8211; to compensate for the lack of confidence, there&#8217;s just too much was Ramsey&#8217;s message.\u00a0 That can be applied to many situations and people.\u00a0 In the case of yoga teaching, simple and accessible is best was my teacher&#8217;s point &#8211; no need to use Sanskrit or fancy anatomy jargon to teach to be authentic. Her words came back to me as we stepped into check this place out &#8211; a t-shirt that reads &#8211; go to hell &#8211; would not do well in my world.\u00a0 Besides, it&#8217;s just not &#8230;me.\u00a0 We laughed. Anyway, Hell&#8217;s Kitchen was buzzing and hot.\u00a0 So much so that we had to stop by the Four Faced Buddha there to find peace.\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21617\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4857.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4857.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4857-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4857-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So wanted to see Yayoi Kusama&#8217;s exhibit but the show does not start until 17th &#8230; just missed it.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21618\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_4810-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looked for a yoga studio that&#8217;s accessible but all I found was &#8230; Soul Cycle.\u00a0 Apparently there&#8217;s a studio called Sin City Yoga &#8211; SOOO would have loved to take a class there but &#8230; as a typical as my recent theme goes, I ran out of &#8230; time.<\/p>\n<p>I felt a bit in an alternative fake universe here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Spiritual&#8221; dining??? and &#8220;religious&#8221; nightlife ??? What?!!! Smoke was seen coming out from rooftop earlier&#8230;Coming from California, had no appreciation for such fire and smoke display.\u00a0 Made my stomach turn actually. Not his fan or anything and did not eat here but I recall the quote my yoga teacher used that was apparently his.\u00a0 Per [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21619"}],"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=21619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21625,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21619\/revisions\/21625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}