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Monday, April 17, 2006

juicy joints

said the Pilates teacher this morning, as we warmed up knee and hip sockets. Feel the full weight of your thigh bone.

There are 4 domes in the body. The arch of the foot. The pelvic floor muscles. The diaphragm. The roof of the mouth. To stand well on one leg, you contract each of those domes, reach up through their apexes (apices?). I love the image I have as I do it – a column of energy surging up a pyramid of small – large – large – small domes.

I always get the giggles when my muscles give out. Don’t ask me why. Working any set of muscles to failure - abdominals, rotators, biceps - induces a giddy euphoria in me.

2 Comments:

Blogger gio said...

hi Shailja, what a pleasure...
in this cooly place that is the web, at a cross, i meet you again...so what's up?
here is all going pretty well, arci too, posting too, sparetime too,...i just miss what we have done; looking at it after a month, it's...great! we had 2 periodic articles and all the population talking for a week about that poet, you know, the one who screamed...

i send thanks and hope to ear you soon

4/20/2006 7:09 AM  
Anonymous claire said...

shailja,

glad to hear you're still working out! i've been doing yoga stretches on my own for a year and finally went back to yoga class last month and found i was so much more able to do what was required of me. yay strength! am doing yoga every morning now.

writing and working out.

4/23/2006 10:08 PM  

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