Öhrn Life Management

As I was waiting for my friend at the Sky Train* station today a guard came up to me and told me to stand up. I was peacefully minding my own business reading the Yoga Journal (true!), leaning against a table but this was not acceptable manners. The guard did not care much about the reading I was doing, but about the terrible crime I was committing by leaning on the table.

At first left wing me reacted in an anti-fascist way, wanting to object to this rude, police like interruption of my peace and quiet. But then I realized that if she had been a yoga teacher, I would have listened to her without questioning.

She was actually right. I should not be leaning against that table. I should be minding my alignment. I should stand up, equally distributing my weight on both feet, stand tall, balanced, steady as a mountain, in Mountain pose (Tadasana) instead.

This turned my wait into another step on my yogic path. Moreover, I could greet my friend in a balanced manner, once she arrived.

*Bangkok has an interesting infrastructure solution: the opposite of a subway, an elevated train track, a so-called Sky Train. Personally I like call it the Heaven Train.