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November 29, 2006
Conversations You Don't Want With Your Yoga Teacher
I debated practice at 7 or 9 this morning but figured I need to whip my non-disciplined ass in shape and bit the 7am bullet. It was freezing... whine, bitch and moan. I was starting to think I might like a little bit of winter.. but not at 6:30am.
Much heavier today... at some point I must have pinched my right side "surgical area" and it ached on and off for half the practice. The Australian gave me an awesome assist in Dwi Pada and it felt a lot more effortless.
By the way, Lauren, what I meant by "hard boobs" is that these implants are, clearly, much "stiffer" and don't flatten like regular breasts do... not that they are literally hard, they are as soft or softer as when you felt them ;) They just don't move out of the way so, for example, in Pasasana, I really have to try to get them out and past my leg whereas, pre-mastectomy, I could simply twist and they would either flatten out enough or at least have give.
Parsva Dhanurasana... very, very difficult for me and does not feel good through the surgical area.
I noted "the look" when I laid down for backbends today. Like yesterday, I was pretty sure the "Kapotasana?" question was coming... today I didn't have a chance to play childish games when, on a walk by, I was asked "What, Kapotasana next week?" I responded with a look of fear which was met with "Yes, next week." Kapotasana.
So I did some backbends... I stood up... I couldn't go back. I even tried once to go down the wall and couldn't do it.... I hemmed and hawed a bit and just ended up doing dropbacks. When my teacher came over he said "Did you stand up?" I said "Yes, but I can't go back! Fear!!!" So we did our dropbacks and on the last one he pulled me up with the magic one hand assist and we then proceeded to have the following conversation:
Him: Your legs are a lot stronger. They feel more powerful.
Me: Than before?
Him: Yes
Me: Well, maybe the time off did me some good.
Him: Or it could be the extra weight
*cringe*
I now, officially, have no idea what to wear to the holiday party.
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