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July 09, 2008
Then We'll All Sing Cumbaya and Drive Off in Our Priuses
I love my Pilates Plus class. It is my new favorite thing, even though it requires me getting up, oh, 5 and a half hours from now.
I've been taking it for over a month now, several times a week, with the same ladies for the most part, and recently, Something Has Happened.
I'm not sure what switch went off, where suddenly people are no longer silent, where suddenly people feel comfortable grunting and groaning, expressing their body's displeasure at using dormant muscles forced to come to life -- obliques, the appendixes of our musculature.
But It Has Happened.
At first I felt a little weird, like, LADY, I CAN HEAR THAT?!? But then I realized that she KNOWS I can hear that and just doesn't give a hooey. And then her neighbor joined in and suddenly there was this chorus of ughs and enghs and whooshs.
I haven't quite yet joined the band, don't feel quite earth-mother enough yet - mainly I utter curse words, well, one particular curse word, my personal f-f-f-favorite, under my breath after particularly masochistic exercises.
But maybe one day.
Maybe one day I just won't be able to help myself and I'll release my barbaric yawp on the unsuspecting denizens of Silver Lake.
Doesn't seem like they'll mind.
Posted by jen at July 9, 2008 11:49 PM
Comments
I went to a yoga retreat a bit ago that was like that. I got used to the sound effects in class, but oh dear god is it weird to hear it in the showers. My inner earth mother takes tea and wears white gloves, apparently.
Posted by: Susan at July 13, 2008 10:12 PM
funny...I go to Silverlake Pilates Plus!
Posted by: Miss Kitty at July 15, 2008 04:55 PM