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Posted on 02/18/2023 5:58:27 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For 14 years, yoga instructor Anamargret Sanchez has taught a free community class at Legion Park in Miami's Upper Eastside neighborhood. It started with 20 people and grew over time, to the point where attendance can easily top 100 and regulars have braved hurricane watches and COVID-19 lockdowns to meet under the oak trees on Saturday mornings. Sanchez livestreams the sessions so those who can't make it in person can participate on Instagram.
The first Saturday of 2023 drew an especially large crowd — the weather was lovely, and only seven days into the new year, resolutions still glinted with potential.
"It was a really beautiful day," Sanchez remembers. "I kept saying, 'Don't forget to look up at the beautiful trees and the beautiful sky.'"
Trigger warning: You won't believe what happened next.
The class proceeded as usual for 47 minutes: breathing exercises, upward and downward dog, warrior, triangle, and seated stretching poses. As always, Sanchez concluded by instructing yogis to roll onto their backs, lift their hips, and begin to look inward.
It was then that a series of noises — tree branches rustling, a loud thud, a cacophony of gasps — ensued.
"Guys, I think we are going to close the class," Sanchez can be heard saying on the Instagram Live video recording. "I'm going to take care of someone who just got an iguana dropped on his face."
That someone would be Michael, who agreed to speak with New Times on the quite understandable condition that we not publish his last name. ("I don't want to be known as the guy whose face was used as an iguana landing pad," he says.)
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“....instructing yogis to roll onto their backs, lift their hips, and begin to look inward...”
I hope there is a porta potty nearby!
Yup. One of these and you're Iguana Boy for life.
Yoga Iguanas Yoga Iguanas Yoga Iguanas
LOL
When channeling your inner iguana goes awry.
Remind me not to sit under a tree while in Florida! 😄🌴
They missed a golden opportunity to start a new type of yoga. First there was “goat yoga” and now we won’t ever know how much fun “iguana yoga” could have been.
A typhoon was imminent on Guam when I was there at one point, and Public Works came by and started pulling coconuts off of all the trees in the neighborhood, which there were more than a few.
I asked one of the public works personnel why they were pulling the coconuts off all the trees in the neighborhood, he looked at me and he said: “have you ever been hit in the head by a 90 mile an hour coconut?”
It was one of those “aha” moments.
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