{"id":245,"date":"2020-06-18T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattdavisyoga.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T10:56:30","slug":"want-to-take-a-ferris-bueller-themed-yoga-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattdavisyoga.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Want To Take A Ferris Bueller-Themed Yoga Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″ min_height=”1628px” custom_padding=”||0px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″ custom_padding=”5px||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″ text_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”||-19px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″]

\u201cLife moves pretty fast. If you don\u2019t stop and look around, once in a while, you could miss it.\u201d\u2014<\/em> Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/strong><\/p>\n

The theme of my class this week was \u201cplaying hooky.\u201d But if you were too chicken to do so or, perhaps, too devoted to other things at 3pm on a Tuesday, then you can still watch the recording and I\u2019d love to hear your feedback as always.<\/p>\n

Click here to watch my free Ferris Bueller-themed yoga class.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Seriously, there is never any pressure to join my classes. I love you all and want you to be happy. I just happen to find that choosing not to work precisely when most people are ramping up their weeks helps with that, enormously ❤️🧘🏼‍♂️\u2026<\/p>\n

Matthew Broderick, who played Ferris Bueller, grew up in our neighborhood; New York\u2019s West Village. He used to climb the fence and break into a local swimming pool, and still lives here, showing up in a Lamborghini with Jerry Seinfeld at Joe\u2019s coffee shop for a recent Netflix episode. Logan and I see him often, along with his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, who sat next to us in our favorite restaurant around the corner when Logan\u2019s parents came to visit last fall. We had to beg Logan\u2019s dad not to turn around and yell \u201csex and the city!!!\u201d at her, all evening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In New York, most of us identify very closely with our jobs. Despite being called Sex And The City<\/em>, in fact, I think Ms. Parker\u2019s television show was mostly about the glories of being a newspaper columnist. Discuss.<\/p>\n

We all need to pay rent, preventing Manhattan being reclaimed as a hippy colony, or the Native American hunting ground white people \u201cbought\u201d back in 1626 in exchange for 60 guilders\u2019 worth of traded goods. Shudder.<\/p>\n

Yoga teaches us we\u2019re more than our professional identities. I drove myself so hard until my early thirties that things got ugly for a while as I realized I needed to spend more energy looking after myself. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so enthusiastic about playing hooky with you these days, as we nourish ourselves on and off the yoga mat.<\/p>\n

Like going on a rampage in a 1965 Ferrari that belongs to a friend\u2019s father (that\u2019s yet another reference to the movie, Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>\u2026if you\u2019ve not seen it, then it\u2019s on Netflix, and you\u2019re evidently from Mars) I believe any act of self-care is a revolutionary act. None of us ends our lives wishing we had worked harder. Au contraire, studies show, the top five regrets of the dying are as follows (from \u201cThe Top Five Regrets Of The Dying\u201d an Australian piece of research that the Guardian wrote up in 2012)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In comparison it seems to me that the courage to play hooky, once in a while, is a little more straightforward. Here\u2019s to baby steps. \u00a0<\/p>\n

    Once again, you can click here to watch my free Ferris Bueller-themed yoga class.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    I\u2019d love to hear what you think.<\/p>\n

    Namaste, \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Matt<\/p>\n

    P.S. I associate Ferris Bueller, and playing hooky, with compassion. Towards yourself, and of course, towards others. Yogis talk about that coming from the heart chakra, which is associated with the color green, and comes from the heart beating in your chest. You can nourish it with yoga, and with meditation, and so on, but also, with food! This month we\u2019ve been grating a fresh green apple into oats soaked overnight in oat milk, for breakfast. And we also made a delicious \u201cgreen gazpacho\u201d soup from Yotam Ottolenghi, for which the recipe is here<\/a>. Here\u2019s to more green, generally, and to more compassion showing up in your life.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/mattdavisyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/oatmeal-green-gazpacho.png” title_text=”oatmeal green gazpacho” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.4.6″ width=”66%” hover_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″ text_font_size=”20px” custom_margin=”||-19px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]

    P.P.S Speaking of green, here\u2019s Frank Sinatra, singing Kermit T. Frog\u2019s song, \u201cIt\u2019s not that easy being green<\/a>.\u201d When he opens up for the pre-chorus, it\u2019s really rather special. Just like you. And me. And all of us! 🐸\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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