Monday, June 2, 2025

Gratitude Monday: corpse[s]

For my lesson on Friday my yoga instructor scouted some new flows for me to try. I confess that I found them confusing and that the pre-flow poses didn’t adequately prepare my muscles for their demands. (Glutes and quads are still bitching at me about this.)

But I have never been so grateful for savasana in my yoga life.

As a side note—I can no longer get through final relaxation without thinking about the yoga studio in Lincolnshire, England, that got swatted a couple of years ago because “members of the public” reported that a ritual mass murder was in process—based on them seeing seven bodies under blankets lying motionless on the floor in a dark, candlelit room, with one person moving slowly about, tapping a drum.

Not for nothing is that known as “corpse pose”.

 

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