{"id":3905,"date":"2009-04-30T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2009-04-30T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:05:38","slug":"finding-your-breath-and-losing-your-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Finding your breath and losing your breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m inclined to people, places and stuff that makes me lose my breath and I’ve always been a shallow breather. For years, I’ve heard from others that I should take yoga because I’m a whirling dervish and really need to relax, bring my energy inward, and stretch. 16 years in California and I hated every yoga class I ever took – bored me to tears – I’d much rather be swirling around a step, lifting heavy weights, or running, biking, anything other than trying to stretch and breath. <\/p>\n

But that all changed when my back sent me out of pilates and into the arms of Michele and her style of yoga. Wow – what a difference a teacher makes. Today, I’d like to salute Michelle of Swan River<\/a> Yoga, she also thankfully teaches at NOAC, and she has changed my life. <\/p>\n

At two days shy of 50 years old, I can barely get into a teaser because of the stiffness in my back. But I’m finding my way back into my body through her challenging yet giving yoga. I almost got in a crow pose today and almost lifted myself up backwards – these have become big challenges for me. <\/p>\n

When I look around and see what are my next steps in life, I see so transparently that my body is my friend and I’d better treat her right if I want to enjoy the next years ahead. Breathing deeply, flexing my body beyond its tight ball of a core, and balancing inside and out. These are the steps I am taking towards the next half century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m inclined to people, places and stuff that makes me lose my breath and I’ve always been a shallow breather. For years, I’ve heard from others that I should take yoga because I’m a whirling dervish and really need to relax, bring my energy inward, and stretch. 16 years in California and I hated every yoga class I ever took – bored me to tears – I’d much rather be swirling around a step, lifting… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-10Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}