“Yes!” exclaims Alice as she steps down off of the scale. Alice is happy, her weight is down again. This is the second blood donation in a row that her weight has been down. Alice is not trying to loose weight, she is not on a diet, but her weight is going down anyway. Alice […]
Bob is shaking. His muscles are bulging. His face is red. His breath is really harsh. Any second now Bob is going to erupt like a volcano. Bob is trying way too hard to get into the yoga pose. He is in the Volcano Zone. What is the Volcano Zone The Volcano Zone is the […]
Bob is working on Paschimottanasana and his short hamstrings are preventing him from moving very far into the pose. His hands are only getting just beyond his knees. It does not matter what he does he can get no further. His yoga teacher tells him to embrace the crow and improvements will come. He tells […]
The car is way too close to the one in front of it. It is weaving back and forth trying to find an opening to pass. The horn sounds long and loud as the driver shakes his fist and shouts insults. Finally there is an opening and with a deafening roar the car swings into […]
It is a sunny day and Old Yeller just woke up. He lifts his hips to the sky and lowers his head towards the ground. There is a big grin on his face as he stretches the muscles in his back and legs. After a few breaths he lifts up and with a wag of […]
As Bob lowered his hips down to deepen the lunge portion of the Extended Side Angle pose and get a good stretch in his hips he noticed some discomfort in his knees. His yoga teacher told him that his hips are the cause of the pain in his knees and that he needed to protect […]
Everybody knows the Aesop Fable about The Hare and the Tortoise, but just in case you don’t or you need to be reminded about how it ends here is the story. The Hare and the Tortoise A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you […]
“Look at the triangle that I drew!” Alice’s nephew said as he ran up to her. Alice had a look at the triangle. One long side rising up from the base and another shorter side dropping straight down to the base. “It is called a Right Angle Triangle” he said. “It looks exactly like one […]
Bob has just returned from enjoying his first long ride in months. As he dismounts and pats his horse, he realise that his legs fell stiff and strange. It feels as though his knees are bowed outwards with a large gap between them, just like a caricature of a cowboy in an old Western. Fortunately […]
Alice’s hands are sliding further away and her feet are sliding towards the back of her mat. “If this keeps up, this Down Dog is going to be laying down.” thought Alice “I thought these mats are supposed to be sticky!” It is past time for Alice to replace her yoga mat. The loss of […]
