Comments on: C.O.R.E.

By: Vandana

Vandana — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:02:18 +0000

love this post. makes the most sense ever, remembering back to those early ashtanga years (and it is still that way in so many classes)!! along with sucking in the belly for bellydancing, my poor once-healthy spine is very relieved to be able to finally soften a bit in your yoga classes!

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:01:18 +0000

“Do you think God made it that way, or is it just one of those hopeless situations where we’re broken and flawed and if we could we’d just poop incense cakes or geranium essential oils?” – ahahahahahah!!! Hey, we could, if we ate incense and geraniums more. Yum!

By: einajs

einajs — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:28:28 +0000

Hope, you just saved me a post-update, because another student was good enough to mail me that exact article today! Also, thanks for using the word “exegesis”

If I could dial down the rant [because I do tend to get ranty on this subject] and just coalesce my thoughts into two points they would be:

– everything in balance [balanced action!]

and

– our collective knowledge about the body is always shifting, so be aware of any sacred cows e.g. “MUST ENGAGE CORE BEFORE MOVING” or whatever. It’s not so much a news scoops as Nature showing us that maybe the fitness community has gone a little too far to one extreme. It’ll swing back and we will become more nuanced in our understanding every time.

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:06:49 +0000

Hey Sjanie, Fantastic exegesis. Prescient too…the core was also the topic du jour–from a non-yogic angle–in today’s NY Times. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/core-myths/?em (Does this constitute a news scoop…I guess that would be the tailbone discussion.)
I really appreciate that you’re taking these concepts to task, making them work their supper. Questioning the edicts. Thanks for sharing the way your brain works!