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Posted 2016-02-26T01:15:23Z

On how Pilates is like social change

Okay, so having undoubtedly whetted someone's appetite for this topic, I figured I would share my musings with you all.

The other day as I was doing my Pilates exercises I noticed for the umpteenth time how much weaker the left side of my body is than the right side. While I have noticed and worked on/with this imbalance for at least 15 years, lately I have been working a new angle. Instead of just trying to get the muscles on my left side to do more and grow stronger, I am trying to train the muscles on my right side to do less. Huh. Building one’s “core strength” can also mean learning new habits of letting go, of doing less rather than more.[...]

Posted 2016-02-08T03:04:28Z

What I’ve been doing instead of blogging….

Well, life is nearly as full as it ever was. I have been working to try to not fill it up quite as much as it had been before my diagnosis. One of my methods for achieving this is to put appointments in my calendar for things like meditation, cooking, blogging, and ceramics. So my calendar looks very full, but it’s full of a lot of things that are really quite flexible as to when (and whether) I do them.[...]