This is a photo of my roommate Sherri's shoulder tattoo. She has 13 all together. It certainly provides entertainment during the down times when she describes the meaning of each one and how she came to create them. One of our fellow students is known as the survey queen, and has determined that 63% of us have tattoos and the average number is 3 per person. As I am allergic to pain, I'm afraid this yoga teacher is in the minority and plans to stay that way!
Today was an awesome learning day. The morning was filled with a medical doctor who filled us in on the physiological realities of aging. The best nugget of wisdom from her chat was that we often start to panic about 40 or 50 years old and desperately try to hang on to youth. But many of the symptoms of aging require us to slow down. Doesn't that sound divine in contrast to our frantic, exhausting schedule we have now? When it's time to make lunch, that's all you can concentrate on is making that lunch. Not texting, reading someone's blog, doing leg weight lifts and shovelling in a tuna sandwich all at one. And then we wonder why we gain weight, or have poor digestion? Aging is not something to be dreaded or feared. It is a natural and proper stage of our journeys on earth. That was a comforting concept for me.
This afternoon, Sherry Baptiste (Baron's sister) taught us her yoga with weights series. Look for a few workshops in the fall on this system. We worked very slowly with light weights but you could so feel the difference in the poses. So often, we want instant results so we use heavier weights and move too quickly, thereby straining the joint. When we slowed down ,you could really feel the muscle work with no stress at all in the joint. It was a great workout, and done in a spiritually infused, mindful manner. Loved it!
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