{"id":3853,"date":"2010-05-14T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:26","slug":"why-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Why yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like you are trapped by your own body&#8211;by aches and pains, by sickness, by physical abilities.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow practicing yoga makes it feel like instead of the body&#8217;s desires dominating the mind, the mind is able to control the body.<\/p>\n<p>Today I stopped myself from sneezing during yoga by recognizing it was just a false trigger from my body.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that meditation works similarly, by training the soul to direct the mind instead of the monkey mind trampling the soul. But I&#8217;m not quite there yet unfortunately&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like you are trapped by your own body&#8211;by aches and pains, by sickness, by physical abilities. But somehow practicing yoga makes it feel like instead of the body&#8217;s desires dominating the mind, the mind is able to control the body. Today I stopped myself from sneezing during yoga by recognizing it was&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-yoga\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,374,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-2","category-mindfulness","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-109","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}