Thursday, May 08, 2008
:yoga buddy:
I try to do yoga first thing in the morning, before everyone else is up. Sometimes Willoughby wakes up and comes to do yoga with me. The main difference in our styles is that while I try to hold a pose for a few minutes - he holds them for a few seconds before racing ahead. He can do my 30 minute yoga sequence in about five. I enjoy his interest and am trying to quietly encourage it, without appearing so enthusiastic that it puts him off. (Have you noticed that with older children? If you get too fired up about something they are doing, they swiftly decide it isn’t interesting anymore.)
His favourite thing, though, is to do this pose - which he called his “try to kiss your own butt” pose.
And then to giggle uncharitably at my attempts to get my rickety old body in the same position. Not a chance. That thing they say about youth being wasted on the young. So true.
