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.)
(Excerpt) Read more at miaminewtimes.com ...
That's when elephants are jumping out of trees
That's when iguanas are jumping out of trees.
Why are pygmys so short?
Why do some Miamians have faces so flat and scratched up?
They went into the park between 2 and 4pm.
“hurricane watches .... to meet under the oak trees”
Anyone see a lack of awareness developing here? There’s a difference between beauty and nature. Beauty occurs when the wind is not blowing, nature occurs when you’re under a tree during a hurricane, or thunderstorm.
When I was overseas in the tropics you learned one lesson... never take a nap under a coconut tree especially the really tall ones.
I guess it applies to iguanas as well... one of them natural laws.
I have heard of yogic flying what is this new exercise - iguanac falling?
It’s a real thing…
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/falling-iguana-alert-cold-temps-to-cause-iguanas-to-drop-from-florida-trees/
Is the Iguana OK?
EMT: “so how did you hurt your head?”
Patient: “an iguana fell on my head!”
EMT (looks at accident form)...
“Other”.
CC
Was sitting under a coconut tree on a tropical pacific beach once, coconut landed beside would have split my head open. My country place has a ton of iguanas, they fall out of trees a lot.
Iguana hold your hand...
Leni
I nominate this as your next chat thread
You would cry too iguana happened to you .
Hate when that happens.
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There's a headline you don't read very often...
Florida Man....
Come on you know the rules.
Keith Richards apparently never got the lesson about not climbing the coconut tree.
LOL. The EMT would probably check “With COVID-19, Other”.
1964 The Night of the Iguana....
https://youtu.be/sIk0ctlAVm8
> Patient: “an iguana fell on my head!”
> EMT (looks at accident form)...
> “Other”.
No, 2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code W59.82XA, “ Struck by other nonvenomous reptiles, initial encounter”. With maybe Y93.A “during yoga activity”
Gots to be coded right for insurance reimbursement…!
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