“Be a lotus in the pond,” she said, “opening slowly, no single energy tugging against another but peacefully, all together.”<\/p>\n
I couldn’t even touch my toes. “Feel your quadriceps stretching?” she asked.Well, something was certainly stretching.<\/p>\n
Standing impressively upright,she raised one leg and placed it against the other, then lifted her arms and shook her hand like leaves. \u201cBe a tree,” she said.<\/p>\n
I lay on the floor, exhausted. <\/p>\n
But to be a lotus in the pond opening slowly, and very slowly rising, that I could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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