Weekday formula expression: Subbing tomorrow AM at Bay Club Redwood Shores – Come feel the “flow and ebb” of Prana within:) I love subbing for Nancy because I love Nancy… She’s so nurturing and intelligent .. that’s also a simple formula, i.e., sub for someone you love because then, you learn so much more – In gratitude.
Weekend formula? Expressed as: AM flow based yoga; PM… Restorative yoga for balancing out your nervous system in the “wane and wax”… lunar practice.
It’s all good.
“Members of the Dauntless faction are brave, for example, and serve as the warrior class, protecting the city. Abnegation members are selfless and run the government, Candor are devoted to honesty and run the courts, Amity value goodwill and tend farms, and Erudite cherish intelligence and serve as teachers and doctors.”
I’d like to be Amity… Joyful and Productive, la, la, la ~peace loving hippie garden tender… but there’s a bit of Erudite and Dauntless in me ( or so I’d like to think…) and as my dear friend stated matter-of-fact in the post-movie ice cream line, ” I just know I could never be Abnegation”… I had to nod in agreement. Perhaps when I can pronounce the word, “Abnegation”, I will be ready to instill in me that quality of selflessness:)
Seriously though, when I teach yoga, it’s the closest one can get to that mindset – I am in total mode of service and reject ego to enter into the practice. It is not selfless as in being a sacrifice but selfless in thinking about wanting so much for others to feel better. It’s more about finding joy through shared joy… We might be all Divergent… and of course, it takes ages 17 and under, the young adults, to bring that to our attention.
Watching action packed Divergent in which heroine Shailene Woodley, plays a tough “Dauntless” warrior, it is hard to believe that Woodley suffered from this condition since diagnosed at age 15. In the film, she’s Tris, the Dauntless, brave powerful warrior with upright posture who has intense combat scenes with boxing, martial arts moves she takes on with natural grace. She suffered Scoliosis?
What is Scoliosis? With scoliosis, when checking from behind, the spine looks like an “S” or a “C” rather than a straight line. This condition can result in uneven shoulders, a prominent shoulder blade, or an uneven waist indicating body’s tendency to compensate for spine’s misalignment.
Untreated, the nerve pain caused can be debilitating. Apparently her spine had a 38-degree curvature (over 45 degrees means you end up as a candidate for surgery) and early detection and treatment of wearing braces saved her from further deterioration.
So what is her fitness regimen today to maintain supple, strong and better aligned spine? It’s reported that she does nothing special but regularly makes time for: Barefoot running and Yoga Workout !
Makes sense. No wonder she exudes that look of glowing health:
“I do what feels good to my body that day and I practice lots of yoga.”
– Shailene Woodley
& more on benefits on running barefoot – or simply going barefoot later:)