I’m getting back into the yoga thing because it is freaking nice and I’m sorry I ever stopped. So I gather the necessary props-the mat, the video I use when there’s no class at my gym, a couple of blocks, you know, the material crap that goes along with yoga.
The video had a website on it, and I went to the site to look at cool things. Some of it’s kind of nifty, like Yoga Burn Kit by this Rodney Yee guy whose video I rather enjoyed. Then some of it gets a little yuppie/materialistic for yoga or meditation (seriously, “Inner Peace Sculpture“? A $110 pillow? I hate to whip out a can of judgement here, but come on).
But the product that finally pushed all the limits of my credulity, my vanity, and that tiny little voice in me that all Americans have that orders me to consume…even he was like, no, wait, that might be fucking insane. What, you ask?
The Om Tuner. My last yoga instructor explained the “Om” thing to us as the universal sound and whatever, it was a bit new-agey to my cynical Western mind, but I have to admit that it was quite pleasant when the whole class did it in unison. I’m sure it would be even better if we were all in tune (not upwards of $200 better, but still…), but what in the hell is the rationale that makes 136.1 Hz the universal frequency?
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I found a cheaper Om Tuner for all you bargain shoppers out there…
Marc! You found a reasonably-priced Cosmic frequency tuner WITH an explanation!
Dude is yoga hard? because I would love to start doing it so that I can be more flexible but really i’m 5’11 and my flexibility is limited to bending down to tie my shoes.
Yoga is way freaking harder than it looks, but all of the instructors are really nice and emphasize how yoga is a very individual thing and you should only push yourself as hard as you feel comfortable with and it takes time but thats OK and so on and so forth. So compared to other forms of exercise (sometimes I jog and sometimes I lift weights) you feel less self-conscious when you’re starting. There’s not that “I’m doing this wrong or I’m so weak and everyone is staring at me” feeling that I get in most other parts of the gym. That, of course, is my own paranoia. Especially in the weight room where no one is looking at anything but themselves or maybe the person they’re spotting.