Sentences that start with the phrase “A guru once told me…” are, more often than not, eye-roll-inducing. But recently, while resting in malasana, or a deep squat, in an East London yoga class, I was struck by the second half of the instructor’s sentence: “A guru once told me that the problem with the West is they don’t squat.”
i can’t squat and my first impulse was the point out that western asian toilets are sometimes setup to help with squatting; then it occurred to me that i was going to defend my western lifestyle. lol