I read the following on a UPI internet news feed:
"Police
descended on a community space in Britain when some local dog walkers mistook a
yoga class's group meditation exercise for the results of a 'ritual mass
murder.' The Seascape Cafe at the North Sea Observatory in Chapel St. Leonards,
England, detailed the unusual incident in a Facebook post.
'If
anyone heard the mass of police sirens in Chapel St. Leonard's at 9:30 p.m.
last night, then please be reassured,' the post said. 'They were on their way
to the Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building.
Having seen several people laying on the floor... which actually turned out to
be the yoga class in meditation.'”
Okay,
that's a strange story and possibly funny, but there actually is a murderous
kind of yoga. It's called hot yoga. Hot yoga lures in unsuspecting victims
under the guise of exercise. Hapless 'class participants' perform a series of
difficult yoga exercises under ridiculously hot and humid conditions.
Apparently, some hot yoga practices seek to replicate the heat and humidity of
India, where yoga originated. A great deal of sweating is necessarily involved
with these practices.
A
friend of mine once attended a hot yoga class. “How was it?” I asked him the
day after his hot yoga experience.
“It
feels good when you are done,” he responded.
“I
can only imagine,” I said. “I feel pretty good about being done with it before
I ever started.”
—Mitchell Hegman
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