The "yogi" I go to most often likes to rattle on about whatever is going on in her mind; Eckart Tole's "The Power of Now," the U.S. constitution, anatomy, etc. It's not so much yoga, as a creative mish mosh of yoga poses, new age religion/spirituality, health/nutrition, entertainment, and political history class. She lights candles, plays music that I used to get high to, turns down the lights, and then in the middle of Warrior II, she'll launch into views on the economy, all while reminding us to breathe throught the pain. I really do feel more at peace while doing yoga. But it did take me a little out of the moment the other day when she told us that our founding forefathers were "mystics who practiced yoga..." The idea of Thomas Jefferson in downward dog while his slaves toil outside, got me me a little confused.

Just for today, I can tune out my yogi.