Embedding this old Instagram post is kind like having a flashback of a flashback.
I instantly fell in love with Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. Reading this poem is like taking a breath since it puts me at ease and makes me feel connected.
The first two sentences also make me think of yoga which also puts me at ease. Seriously, I do not have to be good in yoga and I do not have to do a headstand or wheel pose and I don't have to execute a perfect Warrior I and I don't have to be thin etc. etc...
That is wonderful, and I'm tempted to steal it for Poem of the Week. And that is a wonderful photo and you should have it enlarged to poster size and hang it front of your desk.
I think that you should totally post the Oliver poem for Poem of the Week.
I am trying to make decor changes and I'd actually thought about enlarging some pictures from Jamaica but not that one. That's a great suggestion as I like to have yoga paraphernalia around and what a great reminder that yoga is for every...body.
Inhale as early as possible and for as long as possible.
Try to keep one eye in the water.
Keep your head on the same plane as your body.
from Freestyle Breathing Technique video
If it is in the wrong position, soon everything else will be, too.
In swimming as in life, you gotta get your head in the right place.
from Breathing While Swimming by Coach Dee, Excel Triathletes Blogspot
The greater the distance between your finger tips and your toes, the better.
Have Goggles, Will Swim, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Triathlon Training
In proper freestyle swimming, the head moves with the body to take the breath; it never moves independently. You don’t want any lifting of the chin to take a breath. You don’t want any looking forward or to the side of the pool to take a breath. You want to rotate your head in line with the your body…
Bob Bowman
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The Best Life Diet is not a diet in the usual sense of the word. You don't go on it, then off it as the term diet typically implies. It is, instead, a diet in the traditional sense of the word: a way of eating - for life. It's based on a well-balanced regimen of interesting, satisfying, nutrient-rich, and easy-to-find-and-prepare foods...
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More Climbing Advice
To climb fluidly and under control, you must settle in and relax.
from How To Rock Climb! by John Long
Put your weight on them (feet), trust them, and utilize them to save your strength by resting on them... Feel stuck? Look for a foot hold, exhale, and move to it.
from Mock Rock: The Guide To Indoor Climbing
Motivation
I'm going to give it all that I have then I'm gonna give it all that I don't have.
That is wonderful, and I'm tempted to steal it for Poem of the Week.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is a wonderful photo and you should have it enlarged to poster size and hang it front of your desk.
I think that you should totally post the Oliver poem for Poem of the Week.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to make decor changes and I'd actually thought about enlarging some pictures from Jamaica but not that one. That's a great suggestion as I like to have yoga paraphernalia around and what a great reminder that yoga is for every...body.
Thanks for the suggestion.
http://www.someecards.com/life/holidays/yoga-day-images/
ReplyDeleteLOL. Thanks for sharing; hadn't seen that post.
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