"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Sorry I haven't been posting very much lately. I'm still working 14 - 16
hours a day 7 days a week and trying to get in my exercising, physical
therapy, and learning yoga in all my spare time!! ; I'm still sending
purrs for all who need them, and trying to at least spot check posts for
anyone in need.

Off topic now...

I have a question for others here who may do yoga.

I've always been very bendy. I have no problems touching my toes or
sitting
with legs spread and grabbing my feet. However, the girl on the yoga
video
I have looks like she doesn't have a bone in her body. She sits with her
legs straight out in front of her and leans over and rests her face on her
knees or stand and bends over forward with her face against her knees.

My question is, do you become that limber with continued practice, or is
this yoga instructor just double jointed or something? If you do become
that limber, how long does it take? I'm practicing through the pain so my
muscles will stretch and not stiffen up, but although I see some progress,
I'm not there yet. Any advice?

Watching Cary, he can do the most amazingly bendy things. He sucks on his
toes like its no big deal. He can lift his head so far back it virtually
touches his butt. He can, and often does, sit with his feet straight and and
has his head touching the ground.

He does this like its perfectly normal - because for a baby, it is.

But when we stop doing such things, we tighten up and lose the ability. Some
people are just naturally bendier than others (I am a bendy person, but it
also means I'm forever over-bending joints, which is painful) but if you
have been doing bendy things from a young age you don't lose the
flexibility. Just look at wha tthose martial arts guys can do - thats
because they have been doing it literally for their whole life.

Bendy yoga video girl has probably been doing such things for most of her
life. You haven't. Its nothing to be ashamed of, but please don't think you
ought to be able to be doing what she does, because you almost invaraibly
won't be able to. You will become *more* felxible as you get your muscles
and tendons used to stretching, but you won't ever be as flexible as someone
who has doing extreme bendy stuff for all (or even most) of their life.

Like all other things, do it so as to be healthy and happy within yourself,
not so that you meet some "I want to be like them" target.

Yowie