Land of Zen

     Ever thought about something saying "I'll  try that someday"?   Yoga is one of those things.  Yoga never crosses my mind unless I am walking across one of Austin's many parks.  There are a few exercise classes scattered about the parks most early mornings and all seem to have yoga as part of their repertoire.  Exercising without sweating seems to defeat the the reasoning  of getting up at the crack of dawn, driving to a park, pretending to be in the Land of Zen and hopping your going to lose weight or at best maintain the body.  Yoga probably does  help you mentally and spiritually but physically it's a stretch,  pardon my pun. I guess if I really never intended  to try yoga, just the thought of doing it would probably  impact the Zen part of my life

     I recently stumbled onto a group of 500 people all setting on the lawn of the Texas State Capital.  All 500 were setting in the lotus position.  Invaders from the Land of Zen had taken over the Capital.  There was so much yoga going on it made my legs hurt just watching the madness.  I am not one of those flexible bunnies who thinks flying through the air on a trapeze is cool so  I'll try it some day.  My days in the cool department are long gone.    I am not about to join a yoga class because it suppose to be cool and might help the posture.  Besides, joining  a yoga class requires one to drag around one of those small roll up sticky mats and I'm not going to do that if I can help it.  The only time I could ever imagine being in control of a sticky mat is if some female dragged me to a lamaze class.  The mat would certainly come in handy keeping her over sized ass off the cold floor but I am not about to set on the mat, cross my legs and start chanting.

     I don't chant, I am not a vegetarian   nor an I Hindu.  Those are all three strikes against me in the game of yoga.  Yoga is suppose to open the channels of your mind  to the extent that your perception of everything changes but change is something everyone talks about but rarely does.  Yoga might be able to reconnect me to my body but balancing my mind or restoring my soul is an impossibility.  Visiting the Land of Zen  someday is a possibility.   I wont completely rule the trip out but the vacation would more than likely end as soon as it started