{"id":850,"date":"2008-03-14T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:28:38","slug":"blessed-are-the-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Blessed are the flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Looking at that pose… can you get any idea of just how good it feels? Camel pose feels wonderful to me and is my favorite among the more difficult poses. I’ve been practising yoga for about six months now, a couple times a week. *Practise* is the operative word here: practising not falling over, practising not being self-conscious about the stuff I can’t do, practising not being such a clutz!<\/p>\n

I went to my first yoga class nearly ten years ago and was totally intimidated by it. I continued to go for a while, but eventually let it go once I realized either the teacher or the routine wasn’t a good fit for me. I didn’t expect that I would give it another try and never expected to enjoy it nearly as much as I am now.<\/p>\n

It’s really great fun and is something of a humbling experience for me. I’ve seen a lot of improvement in terms of my strength and flexibility, but not much yet in the area of balance. I still fall all over myself regularly, but the atmosphere in the classes is such that I can laugh without feeling embarassed anymore. My poor sense of balance is a result of poor concentration skills, I know, but that’s partly what practising yoga is about, isn’t it? Developing that communication between the mind and the body without all the clutter?<\/p>\n

Backbends like camel are a little scary because you’re sort of throwing yourself backwards into the unknown. There’s the worry that you’ll collapse or, worse, not be able to find yourself upright again. I’ve seen this pose described as one that is transformational in that it forces you to conquer fear and develop gratitude as a result. Mostly I’m just grateful for the tremendous stretch and peaceful feeling I have there. Wonderful!<\/p>\n

Anybody else have any experience with yoga?<\/p>\n

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“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”<\/em> <\/span><\/div>\n
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Looking at that pose… can you get any idea of just how good it feels? Camel pose feels wonderful to me and is my favorite among the more difficult poses. I’ve been practising yoga for about six months now, a couple times a week. *Practise* is the operative word here: practising not falling over, practising … Continue reading Blessed are the flexible<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}