Okay, okay, our store didn’t look anything like this photo from the LA Times, but we did indeed feel the earthquake! We were in the back office of Drishti, typing away on our laptop, when the ground subtly shook and the shelves swayed from side-to-side. We grabbed a few important items and headed for the door, but in the end, that small tremor was all that occurred. When we returned to our desk and opened our laptop again, we weren’t surprised to see the big, red ‘breaking news’ headline on CNN.com announcing that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake had just hit Los Angeles!
We wonder which yoga classes were taking place in the LA area at the time of the earthquake. How might it have felt to have been holding, say, adho mukha vrksasana (handstand) or sirsana (headstand) in the center of the room and to have suddenly found oneself in the middle of an intensely balance-oriented yoga pose in the middle of an intense, balance-threatening earthquake. We wonder if anyone out there can answer this probing question!
