Sentences that start with the phrase “A guru once told me…” are, more often than not, eye-roll-inducing. But recently, while resting in malasana, or a deep squat, in an East London yoga class, I was struck by the second half of the instructor’s sentence: “A guru once told me that the problem with the West is they don’t squat.”
TaeKwonDo as a kid is why I still have that sort of stretching abilities in my forties. Even my kids can’t stretch like I can, which is funny because they have been doing more judo at this point than I did TaeKwonDo!
I’ve always assumed that I’m flexible in my 40s because of swimming in HS and college. Now I wonder if it has more to do with the tumbling classes my mother forced us to take until we were 5