Kathy Buckworth is an award-winning writer, television personality and public speaker, with numerous publishing credits in both national and local magazines and newspapers. Her monthly column, "Funny Mummy" appears on over 25 websites across Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand, as well as in print.
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Yoga-size Me!
2008/10/06
Yoga pants. Yes that’s right – an activity/sport/philosophy/way of life so special, there are pants for it. Okay, so I got the yoga pants. After all, every woman knows the best part about starting up a new type of exercise is buying the clothes that go with it. I have the tennis whites, the golf shoes, ski jacket and riding boots to prove it. So armed (or legged) with these pants, I made my way to the yoga studio. Which is disturbingly decorated in mostly full-length mirrors (which I discovered during a Downward Dog are for seeing sides of your own and others’ rear ends that you’ve never seen before. Or want to again.). I could see that my shoulders are in fact naturally positioned up by my ears, a fact that the instructor actually took a few minutes to point out to the rest of the participants as an example of “not letting go”. Listen fella, I gave birth to four kids – I know “letting go”. Just not here in these new yoga pants.
I inflexibly made my way through the Warrior Pose, the Goddess Pose, the Mountain Pose; I’ll admit that when I was asked to put my hands in the prayer position what I was praying for was that the instructor would eventually lead us to the Pinot Pose, at which I knew I could excel.
I made it through the class, one ill-executed move after another, until it was time for the meditation period which marked the end of the session. As I lay on the floor contemplating my week’s grocery list, the children’s hockey schedule while courageously fighting the urge to turn my BlackBerry on I wondered if there was a cute top to go with these pants. And then I let it go.
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