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Well, I definitely got my $19 worth out of the Dahn Yoga place where I got evaluated yesterday. Not even counting the fact that the instructor spent something like 1.25 hours with me. Dahn shares with Pilates the idea of strengthening and bringing awareness to the core (lower belly area), which I already knew. The real insight I got was that there's an up/down component to where we store (or bottle up) energy and awareness in ourselves, and I'm slanted way in the direction of storing it high up.
Why this is true and not just fluffy talk:
* I store all my tension in my upper shoulders, and to a lesser extent my face. I can feel it. So can HLM when I make him rub my shoulders every day.
* In fact, I got surgery on my forehead a couple of years ago so I could at least pretend I wasn't storing it in my face.
* Upper body lifting was a lot easier for me to get into than lower body lifting, mostly because I couldn't feel what was going on, or what was right, down there for a long time.
* That eyelid that started twitching on and off in October? Stillllll going. Ugh! :(
And the teacher only knew about #1 plus my job as a programmer when she was talking about all this, which makes her pretty clever. So, we talked next about the school. ( Apparently they could teach me to un-knot my shoulders at will... )
This may not sound tempting to those of you whose shoulders don't hurt on a daily basis, but damn that would be a great trick for me to learn, if it works. And I could sign up for a month without further commitment... hmmmm. It would hurt the rest of my workout schedule somewhat, but maybe I could stand that. The up/down thing is such a basic insight I'm astonished I never thought of it before. If they have more things on that level to tell me, then I definitely want to hear it.
And now... I've eaten oatmeal with wheat germ and strawberries, and an egg (with a mushroom scrambled into it and a piece of bacon under it) on toast. Also juice. And I'm still hungry. What's this going to take, you crazy body?
*goes off to find more food*
Why this is true and not just fluffy talk:
* I store all my tension in my upper shoulders, and to a lesser extent my face. I can feel it. So can HLM when I make him rub my shoulders every day.
* In fact, I got surgery on my forehead a couple of years ago so I could at least pretend I wasn't storing it in my face.
* Upper body lifting was a lot easier for me to get into than lower body lifting, mostly because I couldn't feel what was going on, or what was right, down there for a long time.
* That eyelid that started twitching on and off in October? Stillllll going. Ugh! :(
And the teacher only knew about #1 plus my job as a programmer when she was talking about all this, which makes her pretty clever. So, we talked next about the school. ( Apparently they could teach me to un-knot my shoulders at will... )
This may not sound tempting to those of you whose shoulders don't hurt on a daily basis, but damn that would be a great trick for me to learn, if it works. And I could sign up for a month without further commitment... hmmmm. It would hurt the rest of my workout schedule somewhat, but maybe I could stand that. The up/down thing is such a basic insight I'm astonished I never thought of it before. If they have more things on that level to tell me, then I definitely want to hear it.
And now... I've eaten oatmeal with wheat germ and strawberries, and an egg (with a mushroom scrambled into it and a piece of bacon under it) on toast. Also juice. And I'm still hungry. What's this going to take, you crazy body?
*goes off to find more food*
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