I just had the best savasana assist of my life. Payton and Parker and I just did yoga for about twenty minutes. They really cant wait for their neck rub at the end in savasana (corpse pose.) (For those of you who dont know what this is, heres a visualization: at the end of your yoga class, you lie on your back and breathe and rest. Your lovely, hopefully calm and embodied teacher comes and rubs your neck, your head, and eases your shoulders to the ground-along with other variations depending on the teacher. Its lovely.) Payton asked if she could do the neck thing to me. Of course, right? Who declines neck rubs? So I lie down. Payton squirts some lotion out of the bottle. She rubs it into both hands, stands above me, and asks Should I make you smell it? I laughed for five minutes straight. The poor kid couldnt get her hands to my neck because I was convulsing. She just kept yelling Thats what you make your students do! You make them smell it!! (Sigh. Children are so honest.) Once I affirmed that I wanted to smell it, she took no more than half a second to drop her hands about an eighth of a centimeter from my face. Fast and super close guys, super close. I almost smelled it AND ate it. Then she started to whine, hands still hovering dangerously close to my face. Parker, you do it! I reminded her that she in fact asked to give the assist (no avoiding your karma, kiddo). I said Just put your hands on my neck. And again, in record time, she swooped down and grabbed either side of my neck fiercely with her little munchkin hands. Convulsing again. She just held my neck in place, and squealed What do I do now?!?!?! I told her to do what I did to her. So she promptly dug her nails into my skin and pulled. I dont do that Payton!! Yes you do!! I reached up and showed her how to get a grip with finger pads, not claws. Retract those bad boys, Wolverine. This is yoga, not kung fu. Maybe you should just do it to me again and again so I can learn! Haha, nope! Parker reminded Payton that she hadnt pushed on my shoulders yet. Parker, you do that part! When Parker refused, Payton turned around, jumped forward, and let all 50 pounds of her little munchkin form rest firmly on my shoulders. Its gonna hurt, she said. None of this hurt though. Maybe my abs from laughing so hard. Then she got up and asked Parker if she could do it to him. Surprisingly(!) he declined.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:08:12 +0000
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