Always listen to your mother

When I was growing up, Mom was always telling me to stand up straight and not slouch. She said if I didn’t my posture would be a mess. Why don’t we listen to our parents? I was thinking about this as I endured another hour of Movement Specialist Yoga. One of my shoulders is lower than the other one. My shoulders also slope forward. I could hear Mom’s voice in my ear saying, “see you should have listened.”
Now, I’m trying to fix 40+ years of bad posture and a job that keeps me at a computer all day (and because I’m addicted to the computer, I’m sitting at it a lot more than my job even requires). Sigh.
But, everyone assures me that Yoga will be the answer. I will be more flexible. I will learn to sit on the Yoga ball and roll up and down the wall with it. I’m amazed though at how flexible people can become. If I only became a quarter as flexible as my Movement Specialist, then I would be doing great.
The Movement Specialist does crack me up. She is always asking me if I can ‘feel’ this or that muscle group. Feel it? Damn, I didn’t even know there was a muscle there and suddenly I’m stretching it. Of course I feel it.