What a full and exciting week it has been! I attended the last of my 'summer babies' birth on Saturday, arriving home just 24 hours before I was due to be at a sporting event as a therapist. Incredible timing. The event was a marathon in Lockport, we had a tent set up by the river, and ended up working with a fantastic physiotherapist who works out of a Stonewall clinic. The four of us were in a really nice rhythm with each other, had a happy little vibe going on. The physiotherapist was happy enough with our work that she invited us to come work with her team at the MS Biking to the Viking event this weekend coming up!
Great opportunity, nice connection. It all came together very easily, as I have noticed the best things seem to do.
Great opportunity, nice connection. It all came together very easily, as I have noticed the best things seem to do.
Then Monday, back in class and right to it! We spent this week on the hip, reviewing, learning and working on new stuff. Psoas Release anyone? How about those Glut muscles? Done and Done. Seems to me that Gluteus Medius needs more attention than it gets. Our instructor showed us a simple and useful way to strengthen this important and undervalued muscle. I'll see what I can do about making some sort of a clear diagram or written description in a later post.
We also had Remedial Exercise class, which looks like it is going to live up to my expectations. Yay! I am glad to hear we are starting with a focus on flexibility. He also laid out the Fitness principles for us in a really clear way, definitely post worthy as well ;) Principles that have application on a broad level. So much of what was discussed has direct application to the process of childbirth and I appreciate that sort of connectivity.
This whole week has felt like one 'yes' marker after another, in terms of the Universe giving me a nod that I'm facing the right way. Moment after moment just clicked into place, perfect connections at perfect times, words being said that had just been said. (unbeknownst to the second sayer). It felt like everything was a yes this week. Even the hard stuff, was hard with a positive and attainable conclusion.
Odd little connections too. Emily is in drama camp this week, and she is playing princess Echo. A greek nymph, from whom we got the echo found in the hills. One of the very few baby girls I witnessed being born this summer? Named Echo. Never had I heard that name before, now my daughter is that character... odd. Lots of little markers like that.
As I was walking in to class this morning, I passed by the building that appears to house a bunch of women who are coping with either emotional or mental challenges (or both) of some kind. Usually one or two will ask for change and another one or two will wave or say hi, or want to have a fairly non sensical, but non threatening chat. This morning there was one lady sitting out front, with a big grin on her face, she called out a cheerful 'hello' and I sang it back to her. She grinned even more, so did I. And I thought to myself;
"it doesn't have to be hard, in fact, I don't think it's supposed to be. So many people 'endure' life and all it's challenges. Fighting to get through each day, and wearing that survival as success. Really though, if we just allow life to happen, flow with our own current instead of trying to manage our path, there is no fighting or surviving. There is instead living."
Something like that. Here is this woman, in a situation most people would think devastating, and yet she had a bigger, more genuine smile on her face, in response to a hello, than most of the people I see on the street rushing about 'living'. Always, it's what you choose.
"it doesn't have to be hard, in fact, I don't think it's supposed to be. So many people 'endure' life and all it's challenges. Fighting to get through each day, and wearing that survival as success. Really though, if we just allow life to happen, flow with our own current instead of trying to manage our path, there is no fighting or surviving. There is instead living."
Something like that. Here is this woman, in a situation most people would think devastating, and yet she had a bigger, more genuine smile on her face, in response to a hello, than most of the people I see on the street rushing about 'living'. Always, it's what you choose.
Then during our business class, our instructor said "the more that we make sure everyone around us is okay and taken care of, the more we will be ok and taken care of" Bingo! Just be our most awesome selves, take good care of our fellow humans, and live our lives. Fully and with Joy. It was a good class, I'm looking forward to more.
Then there was clinic. My first client? A guy named Ed, who was eager to chat. What did we chat about? Well health and health care of course, as is almost always the case in clinic. Turns out his daughter is an RN.... in one of the maternity wards in town. Of course. I didn't pursue trying to figure out who she was exactly, it doesn't matter, just that was enough. If she happened to be one of the many nurses I worked with over the summer, it would not be any more significant. The point being made to me is that I am facing the right direction..... good enough for me!
