storytimewithjoe | The Eagle

No fellas, I’m not talking about a gay bar. I’m talking about my new Most Hated Yoga Position – “the Eagle”. How does one describe it? Ya know the twisty-ties that you use to seal up a bag of sandwich bread? Picture that twisty tie where you take the two ends, and you fold them together. Now twist, twist, twist. Got that visual? OK, now picture doing that to your body while you stand on one leg. You do that twisty first with your legs. Are ya with me? OK, now that you are standing on one leg with your legs in a twisty, you take your arms and do the same thing. Ohm…. Ohm…

Sound easy? If so, you are a FREAKY-FREAKEN-FREAK!

This is the first “new” pose that I have done (and by “done” I mean “crashed-and-burned”) in a yoga class in quite a while. As usual, it is quite humbling to try a new position and to utterly, utterly founder. It is like learning to walk. But, as my instructor would say, “there’s no judgment. You just do what you do.” In typical morning-after style, I have dull throbbing happening in my lower spine, and some residual tightness in my muscles. You know… the kind of dull pain that happens after an Eagle flies right into a concrete sky-scraper. One thing for sure – this eagle has not landed. Heck, this eagle hasn’t made it out of the nest yet. Chirp! Chirp!