{"id":3276,"date":"2012-02-14T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:53:35","slug":"yoga-is-keeping-me-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Yoga is keeping me sane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t worry, I’m not going to show you a photo of me in my PJs doing yoga in the middle of our very small living room. The teenagers think it would be a very good idea – but I don’t. Me with a red head and all my wobbly bits is not a sight for public edification.<\/p>\n

I’m doing yoga every day now. Quietly and slowly (and ignoring all rude comments from those who are to lazy to go skiing), every day I do a little more. My sun salute extends into other asanas that don’t hurt my knee, but do stretch out my back and feel good in the process. I’m quite amazed at how much strength – especially upper body strength – I seem to have lost in the last couple of months. Working my arms and shoulders I really feel the muscles straining and the next day I feel the ache in the muscles – but it’s a good ache, a getting things back again sort of ache.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a good while before I can run again. The bone bruise in my knee is going nowhere fast, but I see now that yoga and pilates classes are back within my grasp. Once we’re back from the mountains I can’t wait to get back to them – and I’m going to finally make myself take a meditation class too. I’m not a meditation sort of girl really, sitting still and doing nothing is something that is well-nigh impossible for a flibertigibbet like me. Which is why I think it’s something that I should take some time trying to learn.\u00a0Who knows, it could change my life.<\/p>\n

Right now all I can say is that yoga is carving out a little oasis of calm for me in a two small flat with teenagers who are spending way too much time together in a confined space – and those of you who are parents of teenagers will know exactly what I mean when I say that.<\/p>\n

My body feels better, my spirits are lifted and my energy levels are up.<\/p>\n

Yoga. It works. If you’ve never given it a try, maybe you should!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t worry, I’m not going to show you a photo of me in my PJs doing yoga in the middle of our very small living room. The teenagers think it would be a very good idea – but I don’t. Me with a red head and all my wobbly bits is not a sight for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-QQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}