{"id":17537,"date":"2010-03-07T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2010-03-07T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T06:19:15","slug":"bad-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17537","title":{"rendered":"Bad Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yoga class one evening, I was extolling the benefits of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_technique\">Alexander Technique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman talked about how yoga imparts similar benefits &#8212; it opens up the chakras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe,&#8221; I said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure. I look around in yoga class and see so many people with bad use. They are just making themselves worse. 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