Atlanta's Yoga Scene
What is in your pint? (from Kailas Bliss Facebook Page)
DAY 7 of my 30 day Bikram Yoga Challenge
I have felt sore today. I have had classes at Marietta, and Ponce Studios this week. I have had hot classes and moderate classes. I have had hard and easy classes. I have had classes that tasted like mollasses. oops no I have not but it sounded good. Truthfully, my experience has run the spectrum on all levels. Though the class covers the same 26 postures each time, each teacher has their own energy to add. Also each teacher is of a different spirit each class. Each class mixture is different. I as a student am also different depepnding on a host of factors. Therefore, you can never have the same class twice. Also, the environment outside chnges and the inside conditions fluctuate according to some strange algorythm.
Todays class bewgan with the teacher walking out to the class of assembled yogis and saying firmly, “welcome to Bikrams Torture Chamber, to KILL YOURSELF for 90 minutes”. He had a sort of a gleam in his eye while he said this, as if he had secret plans to work off some personal stress through the act of handing us our arsehole on a silver platter. Those of you who do not practic BIKRAM YOGA will certainly not be familiar with this vernacular, this vocabulary describing how utterly ass ass kicking and intense this yoga really is.
Under the right conditions the Bikram Teacher is able to channel Bikram Choudry Himself and reach up into your oriface and grab your whole entire spinal column and very quickly snatch it totally out of your body without blood, showing it to your unbelieving eyes, and then after rinsing it under pure running water, reinserts it. IT totally erases weeks of bullshit from your mental hard drive. Bikram sings a little tune after he totally rolls over you ten times with a steam roller. “Dont look so sad, its not over, long way from home, TO KILL YOURSELF”.
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this mp3 is of me reading a poem called “thou shalt not kill”
it is a poem by kenneth rexroth about amongst other things, the effect that economics has on killing the inner spirit
where am I? oh my God! the last thing i remember, i was in Bikram Class, feeling so hot i was wishing with all my heart and soul to be in the cold snow. wait a minute now im freezing
georgia snow storm, 2011
spider pose
scissors buddha
some of my favorite Bikram Quotes from yogadawg.blogspot.com (i didn’t quote all of them!)
They make so many stupid things in America.
The whole Bikram class is one big brainwashing session.
America’s biggest problem is too much freedom.
Western people can’t meditate. In India people really can’t meditate either. When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do.
When in America, copyright and trademark.
Don’t throw up on the carpet. It’s new.
I control my kingdom like a gangster.
How many Rolls-Royce do I own? I don’t know. 35?
I give every staff member of mine a car, something like a Jeep Cherokee. I have 17 vans. American Yoga teachers are clowns. Circus clowns.
They crucified hatha yoga in America.
resting pose
airborne
