At 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22, the Great Lawn in Central Park was set to be transformed into the world's largest yoga studio, as over 10,000 blue mat wielding participants were prepared to go into down dog in unison. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
Beginning around 4 p.m, the lines started to form all around the Great Lawn in Central Park.
At 5:30, the bodies started spilling onto the expanse of green grass located just north of Belvedere Castle, with complimentary yoga mat, bottle of water and other goodies in hand.
At 6:45, the gathering grey clouds gave doubt that the event would happen.
Just after 7:00, the afro'd comedian Reggie Watts took control of the microphone, commanding the crowd the way only he can: with wit, stage presence, beatboxing and a song about yoga using a dubbing/amplifying machine. He even let his three kids come on stage to dance.
At 7:18, a member of the Universal Record Database (URDB), wearing a mustard-yellow sport coat and shaggy hair, let the crowd know that it had succeeded in forming and were preparing to take part in the "largest registered yoga class," with more than 13,000 registered participants.
As the clock passed 7:30, the yogi leading the session, Elena Brower, let the sea of anxious attendees know that there was a thunderstorm approaching and that she would know in five minutes whether or not they could legally proceed.
It was at 7:37 that the first raindrops began to fall.
Sensing that the weather was growing worse, at 7:38, Brower opted to proceed, asking the mass to come to a seat at the front of their mats, legs crossed, wrists resting on their knees, palms racing outward, chin up and eyes closed. Then the crowd of nearly 10,000 partook in a drawn-out, collective Om, sounding like a the world's most pleasant dial tone.
At 7:40, after completing the Om, Brower was given permission to lead the group through a single flow. The crowd cheered. Those who hadn't already run for the exits rose to their feet, moved to the front of the smurf blue mats and readied themselves - feet facing forward, hands at their sides, eyes ahead, tadasana.
Seven minutes later, after maneuvering through several traditional poses, the world's largest registered yoga class came to an end. Namaste.
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I'm finally back - and for the moment, I want BB to know - I HOPE you did not leave the Pride thread because of my comment about "feeding the trolls."
It was so great to see you and GG - the truth is I wanted to chat with both of you and I couldn't because I was so aggravated at that crazy TROLL!
So I hope you will show up again and I hope I'll say hi to you again soon!
HUGS - X
The "more comments on this thread" link is not visible...so it appears no other comments exist...hmmmm...
I did think myself and GG were constantly replying those obnoxious comments...( I was getting a bit upset too) .but then saw your reply..., that calmed me down, thanks for that :)
But that thread was phasing out anyways..
Do you know SL has removed herself, but we have GG and T Diamond (?), she is like the fairy god mother, tries to clean up a thread and then moves on..
I am thrilled to have you back here. My sis-in law is visiting for a few days and I am sooo talked out. Now shall take her out to TJMAX...catch you later.
The fish guy is getting me stripped Bass for tomorrow ...soo...good...I do have friends in the right places..LOL..
GAB will be happy to have you in this thread....
btw - I think they're starting to scrub some of the scrubbed comments (above) from our friends, that we used to be able to see whether they were published or not. I've even had a few things in the 'Comments Activity' (box to the right) as direct replies to me (that no one else could see) disappear.
hmmm. This was kind of an experiment so i am not surprised at anything.
I don't see how there can be an objection to using a thread like this for relaxed discussion.
Cheers and hope your day is going well - I've got a few ideas to share so I'll be back!
Vtopa, in my friend`s activity is quoting the same slogan all over the threads for NRR, a great petition, I must say. I want to cut and paste your comment and post to a few threads , of course use GAB before pasting. But only if you OK that....and see how many times they scrubb that..
How long ago you started requestung that ? More than a month ago, and then I repeated the same request....
What do you say GAB ?
i just don't get what the problem is with having a place to converse that is relaxed.
there are so many ways of providing a means of open discussion that would be of benefit to Huffpo and the community of readers.
Maybe someone has noticed, and maybe something will be done.
GetAbike...
"Huffpo users are like 10,000 yogis in the rain when we have
this friend list, can read their comments, but cannot click 'n
go to them like we can our own comments. I wonder what the
whole friend thing is good for in terms of actually following
their comments, being supportive, etc."
I wonder what the whole friend thing is good for in terms of actually following their comments, being supportive, etc.
So, did the photographer go running for cover when it started to rain?
Like they say in Post Falls, Idaho,- "just show up".
I only see people doing their thing.
But we do not lack for readers, eh?