Today in yoga we had a guest teacher who shared a fascinating story. She told of someone who had completely obliterated their ankle. They had it put back together with a lot of screws and plates. Then they did Bikram. Sitting in fixed firm pose completely healed the ankle. The plates and screws began finding their way to the surface of the skin and finally had to be removed. The tissue in the ankle was healing and rejecting the metal parts. This took five years. Imagine, they actually had to have the metal parts removed.
Hearts are a lot like ankles. They get broken. They get pieced back together with nuts n’ bolts. The metal aches and is heavy to carry around for a long time. Eventually the metal begins to surface. When it’s removed, the heart is healed and, after a lot of hard work, it’s okay again. But five years? I would hope the timeline for hearts would be shorter.
And so, as another day goes by, Bikram yoga continues to fix those loose screws – in both the head and the body, and…I have written.
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