{"id":4698,"date":"2019-05-01T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2019-04-29T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:00:13","slug":"breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2019\/05\/breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Now release into Savasana<\/em>…corpse pose.”<\/p>\n

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I was finally taking my first yoga class. For years it seemed like everyone around me was into yoga, and half the people I knew taught it.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t feel the pull. But so many people said it was amazing, I thought I would try it.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the class I asked teacher a few questions.<\/p>\n

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“This is your first yoga class?” she said. Apparently I passed as normal in this class, and hadn’t worn my ignorance too conspicuously.<\/p>\n

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“I have always liked to do more active things. I run.”<\/p>\n

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“How do you breathe when you run?”<\/p>\n

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I stared. “By moving air in and out of my body…What are you talking about?”<\/p>\n

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“Oh you have<\/em> to learn how to breathe!”<\/p>\n

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I had heard this from some of the more annoying Yoga fans of my acquaintance. I have to learn how to breathe. You can’t drop a bomb like that and just sail away!<\/p>\n

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Another person in the class said ‘Yeah, you know how you are supposed to breathe when you sing? With your belly?”<\/p>\n

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I guess so. Kind of.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t at all sure about yoga.<\/p>\n

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But that annoying ache in my hips was gone.<\/p>\n

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So maybe.<\/p>\n

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And then I went back to my morning routine of running.<\/p>\n

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Yes. I like to MOVE, not stand still. But maybe yoga had gotten rid of that other annoying ache. I felt around for it and remembered the teacher had said I had to breathe right. From my belly.<\/p>\n

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How do you do<\/em> that?<\/p>\n

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So I’m thinking of how to run fast and keep my legs moving forward and my arms pumping to make time, and trying to push my belly full of air.<\/p>\n

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Which feels very strange. Like my balance is all off. So where are my arms and legs again? Are they going fast?
\nBut just as I am putting them all back in line I have to keep breathing, and if I’m doing that I have to fill my belly.
\nThis is a lot of rhythms to maintain. And now I have to take a BIG yawn. and that throws off my breathing. Am I still moving forward? I don’t want to slow down.<\/p>\n

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So my stomach and my legs and my arms and my breath and my big pausing yawns are all working together like a bag of cats.<\/p>\n

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That ache seemed to be less, but I was pretty sure that I was going to have a new record of how slow I was running. Yawning my way across the finish line I stopped the clock.<\/p>\n

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My second fastest time ever!<\/p>\n

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Seemed like there might be something to it. I’ll go to the next class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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