Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Noah's girlfriends
We never know Noah had such "Nu-ren-yuan"--a group of girls go crazy over this guy! The teacher told us that whenever it's time to hold a partner's hand to go outside, girls fight over Noah's hands! They all want to sit with him too. Today Noah told me, in exactly his words: "So much girls in my school love me so they all want to hold my hand." I wonder if it's his because of his exotic features. Anyway, it's kind of funny. This never happened before.
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i want to hold his hands too!!!
me too!
Dear Sis,
have been thinking about your yoga passages, esp. on my way to yoga. I suspect one difference lie in the commonly accepted goals of doing yoga, which then shape the teaching styles. In the U.S., yoga is usually associated with the overly-commodified category of "feeling good" which is thought to be attained by being in touch with one's mind/body. It's about affirmation and acceptance, hence the gentle teachings, extra-posh studios, accoutrement, the bizzare merging of massage,yoga, therapy, and acupuncture studios, etc-- everything that will make you purchase the experience of happiness (Yay, Long Live Berkeley!) Is yoga propagated like some sort of physio-psycho-spiritual panacea in Taiwan the same way it is in the U.S.? Or do you think it is treated more like a physical excercise of balance and limberness instead? Do you think somehow faith in the intrinsic goodness of sweat, extreme pain, and challenge is specific to yoga, or is it a larger moral principle governing this wonderfully sadistic culture of ours?
I think those comfort-oriented elements are not always present in traditional Chinese yoga practices, but are definitely becoming a trend esp. among young and wealthy Taiwanese in urban areas. And I should add that the Chinese yoga teachers often use theories and vocabulary of Chinese medicine (pressure points, flow of chi, etc.) Sweating is viewed as getting rid of unclean chi and part of the "detox' process. This line of reasoning exists in US yoga as well.
I asked my friend Berg who is a student of Mr. Iyengar in Pune, India, how Mr. Iyengar teaches. Berg said Mr. Iyengar really emphasizes the practice of discerning one kind of pain from another, and tells his students to look for a way to stay in the pose while minimizing discomfort and effort. I hear they have a super nice studio in Pune!
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