{"id":1107,"date":"2008-11-19T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/upside-downward-dog\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:56:08","slug":"upside-downward-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/19\/upside-downward-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside Downward Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/nov\/19\/health-yoga-zoe-williams\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 2.2em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; width: 460px; border-color: #0061a6; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Defiance of gravity<\/h1>\n<h2 id=\"stand-first\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; width: 460px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1.333em; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #666666; background-position: 0% 100%; border-style: none\">We know it takes toil to get fit, and yet the idea of upside-down yoga just seems too good to miss<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"article-attributes no-pic multi-pub\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-size: 0.86em; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 12px; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 58px; border-color: #0061a6\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/zoewilliams\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/contributor\/2007\/09\/28\/zoe_williams_140x140.jpg\" class=\"contributor-pic-small\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Zoe Williams\" title=\"Contributor picture\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 2px; border-style: none; padding: 0px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"contrib-shift\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: absolute; 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background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" target=\"_blank\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>, Wednesday November 19 2008 00.01 GMT<\/li>\n<li class=\"publication\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{3}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{3}\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian,<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday November 19 2008<\/li>\n<li class=\"history\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/nov\/19\/health-yoga-zoe-williams#history-byline\" class=\"historylink sendbyline\" id=\"historylink-byline\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">Article history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/212\/475626554_afefc5b35b.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"212\" height=\"500\" align=\"right\" \/>Upside-down yoga is sweeping America, soon to set the gyms of the UK afire with the defiance of gravity. I was just scanning the internet for what, exactly, was good about it. On the website it says: &#8220;The AntiGravity Hammock acts as a soft trapeze, supporting you as you master simple suspension techniques leading to advanced inverted poses.&#8221; So being upside down, in other words, leads to you getting better and better at being upside down. You can also get better at upside-down pilates, and the rather ominous-sounding upside-down dance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">On the one hand, I can&#8217;t believe it will take off in Britain, because it is so extravagantly pointless, but on the other hand, for the same reason, I can&#8217;t believe it won&#8217;t. Faddy exercises are reason-proof, recession-proof and science-proof, insulated against any consideration of consequence that might otherwise ever stop anyone doing anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The year before last there was a fad for heated pilates. It was just like the regular kind, only you did it in a heated kennel, while someone outside it enjoined you to &#8220;Lose! Tone!&#8221; It was more soothing than it sounds. Perspex has a muffling effect. I had a go. &#8220;This,&#8221; I thought, with a clarity that might have stopped my heart were it not for the lovely warm environment, &#8220;is the end of civilisation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/nov\/19\/health-yoga-zoe-williams\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Defiance of gravity We know it takes toil to get fit, and yet the idea of upside-down yoga just seems too good to miss Zoe Williams guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 19 2008 00.01 GMT The Guardian,\u00a0Wednesday November 19 2008 Article history Upside-down yoga is sweeping America, soon to set the gyms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}