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Last night at yoga there a was a woman next to me who was there for the first time. She was young (probably 18ish), very thin, and incredibly flexible, which generally is a combination that makes me feel really sorry for myself (being not young, not thin, and while vastly more flexible than I was a year ago, I still can't bend in half or "thread your left arm through your right arm then reach around and grasp your left foot now breath and smile"). This is why I keep my eyes closed during class--not to experience my inner peace but to keep from comparing myself to people made of rubber--I never come out on top. Anyway, the lovely woman next to me kept bending in ways that were quite impossible for most humans (I peek. I'm weak, particularly when they're quite attractive.) but I noticed to my delight that while I couldn't bend backwards flat on the ground whilst sitting on my heels, my arms don't shake (like hers did) at the end of class no matter how many down dogs we do or how long we hold them. I don't have to have my hands on the floor during lunges to keep my balance but can lift them up to the sky without feeling like I'll topple (in fact, next to happy baby, it's my favorite thing to do). I have strength rather than great flexibility--I want both but I'm pretty happy to be strong. I also have good balance and can hold tree pose for ages, though I tend to think that's my low center of gravity at work (i.e., short and fat).

I'm wearing one of my new dresses today. I noticed as I was trying to decide which pair of sandals to wear that my legs look rather lovely. My ankles are quite slender, which made me laugh because on occasion I read books where the heroines are quite vain about their ankles, and now I've joined their number.

The other day I was handwriting the next chapter of a Suits fic during my lunch and discovered much to my horror that I ~~was~~ could be writing an alpha/omega fic. Don't take that as judgement for those who like a/o fics, because I read them and sometimes enjoy (and sometimes boggle--definitely depends on the writer and how far they stretch their knowledge of human anatomy--I know the point is that a/o are different but *hands* I was a biology major! I have hang-ups!) and besides your kink may not be my kink and that's perfectly all right (though I'm pretty easy going with my kinks so likely we share more than a few). I just never considered writing one, particularly not in Suits, which is flooded with a/o stories (where are they all in Remus/Sirius? You would think that would lend itself to it, you know? Are they on ff.net?). Moreover, I don't want to write one (though now that the thought has planted itself, I can't help but to wonder at the challenge I see in it) so I had to dial it back and decide how to tweak my plot.

Okay, I have no point to this post except a) I'm strong! b) I have lovely ankles! c) why can't I just write fic all day long! and finally d) I'm procrastinating because I don't want to work. I want to sit outside in the sunshine in my pretty dress and finish reading my book.

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I have the flexibility, but not the core strength. Not a great combo I tell you since everything just goes out of whack from being flexible and there's no strength to hold things back from being *over* stretched if you know what I mean. I've been forbidden by my chiro from doing yoga "Don't want you to get any *more* flexible," he said, not that I was doing any yoga. "Do pilate instead." Yeah... not doing ANYTHING right now....

I can see where it would be equally problematic to be too flexible as well. I worry about pushing too hard and straining my back again and understand where one could push too far in the other direction as well (not pushing too hard but have it be too easy). Pilates never appealed, though it's a moot point now as the only pilates studio in town closed shop.

I have a slight problem with hypermobility, which is where all the problems with my hips and lower back comes in. *sigh*

Definitely looking at signing up for pilates at the university gym come summer. Was thinking of doing it in Feb, but you had to book in 10 weeks all in one go, and since I already had plans to go away for 1-2 weeks in the last month of when the classes run, I was going to end up missing classes and losing money. :(