Tai Me
I have started taking a couple of classes during the week. Power Yoga on Tuesdays, and Tai Chi on Thursdays. The Tai Chi agrees with me beautifully. It is slow and easy, and helps me focus on breathing and relaxing. The only problem is that I am wholly uncoordinated. I am so uncoordinated, and so bad at choreography that I was once asked to leave a dance class (which I had paid for!) because after 4 weeks, I was still so bad, I was slowing the other beginners down. The teacher said, "I'm sure you have other talents..."
Tai Chi is a series of coordinated, choreographed movements. You have to know your right from your left, and need to be able to turn your feet one way, while your head is going another way. There is a set of movements, called "parting the pony's mane", that entails moving both arms, both feet, and your upper body all at the same time. I absolutely could not get the coordination down until I changed the name to "putting on lip gloss in bad lighting".
See, your right hand moves up to shoulder level with your palm facing you, as though you were holding a hand mirror. Your left hand moves down to waist level with your palm facing down, as though you were reaching into your makeup bag for the lip gloss. All the while, your body is turning from the waist to the movement of the right hand, as though you were trying to find good light for your primping.
