Item: When gas happens in yoga class/Brooke Hewes, New West Boise

More Info: I’ve certainly done it. You probably have. It is likely that someone, somewhere, is doing it right now…. The “it,” of course, is the inevitable passing of gas in yoga class. There’s just something about those restrictive clothes, those twisting postures and the quietness of it all that seems to entice farts. (As I recall, there is even a posture in Bikram Yoga called “wind-removing pose.)

Question (from writer Brooke Hewes): So what do you do when you let one slip? Do you acknowledge the flatulence by looking up, smiling, even giggling at what is clearly (and, remarkably I must add, after all these years of doing it, always) amusing? Or do you just continue your practice—dristi steady, breath uninterrupted?

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