this week i took my first iyengar class. and my second and third. after vinyasa it's another world. and a good one. our teacher actually has a skeleton at the front of her class. a mr. lovely bones. at one point on sunday she put her hand on his hip while explaining something. i loved this moment.it's been refreshing to have the mysticism taken out of things. to look at the body. its muscles and bones. its alignments. to know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. to see cause and effect.
no music. no smoke and mirrors. just bodies in motion and at rest.
and everything happening in opposite directions at once.
the four corners of the feet press into the floor as the sternum and side ribs lift. the right heel pressing back as the left thigh presses forward.
it's given me a method for thinking, and it's also given me things to think about.
on tuesday night: we are not spiders.
tonight: everyone loves to be watched.
