After 250 Classes

First of all, my spine feels flexible and 'one piece' instead of brittle and inflexible.

Secondly, my hip and knee continue to make the subtle progress and changes that come from this gradual re-adjustment and re-alignment on a cellular level.

Thirdly, I've lost that extra weight and I feel my body getting back to how it was when the accident happened 33 years ago, when I was 29.

This 'therapeutic fitness training' has changed my metabolism because my body has learned to sweat, my 'yoga face' because I've learned to enjoy suffering in a physical way - after crying for weeks over all the emotional suffering associated with this accident.

And I've become addicted to watching my progress: within each class from posture to posture, between classes when I expect pain but watch how my leg / hip ' back feel differently and in my overall feeling of embracing life with a body that is renewing itself - as its response to being 'wound up' during 26 postures in a hot room.

What an experience to share!

Between Experiences of Pleasure and Memories of Pain

It is rather difficult to convey the amazement that I experience every time I get dressed/undressed, I turn in bed, walk, sit down, go up and down stairs: all these normal and regular movements feel quite DIFFERENTLY after nearly 18 months of classes.

But it is easy to describe the joy that I feel every time I walk away from a class now: I used to envy the young people who seem to feel more energetic whereas I was exhausted for months - emotionally and physically. But for quite some time, I have been feeling happier and happier, during and after class.

I have lost my diamond ring in the studio, but I have found my joie de vivre in my BODY, not just in my spirit! And I am confident that I will feel the way I used to when the accident happened 33 years ago. I will also ski again - like at 28.

Reversing ageing is nothing compared to my experience of turning chronic pain into joy and pleasure. Sanjai even managed to get me to enjoy the Camel posture which is so hard and difficult for me. But now I smile just thinking of this new way of going only as far as my body ENJOYS leaning back!...