How did I miss it?

OK – part of my de-funk, kick the depression suggestion was too exercise. Activity that might result in sweat or elevated heart rate. I am not motivated to feed my self much less get up and DO something. Really.

One of the best parts of having gotten into massage school is that, the particular school I attend is big on Tai Chi as a teaching tool and method for using proper body mechanics while performing massage. Keep from doing any damage to your own body while attempting to help others.

I really liked Tia Chi. Not sure why I stopped doing it. A very good friend gave me, for Christmas, because I asked of it, a DVD on Tia Chi. I suck and have not made a habit of viewing and doing. So, my brilliant thought, take a class offered by the city! Eight weeks offered on Tuesday nights at the Senior Center downtown. I call with my credit card number and we are off and running. Well, not yet anyway.

So, day one arrives and so do I. Now, I am not sure why I did not put 2 n 2 together but for some reason, I thought the class was just being held at the senior center. It did not ever, for one second occur to me that it was a class for  seniors. This did however become very clear, very quickly as my class began to sign in, shuffle in, amble in, mosey, stroll and any other term for move slowly, in to the room.

Now, I have been told for years that I do not look my age. I have no clear idea what someone my age is supposed to look like. Older that me but, what is that?  I am the only example of my age I really have.

So – being on average 15 years younger than the rest, if not more, and not looking my age by 5 or maybe more years, I felt and looked very out of place. Dressed all wrong but had to rush to get there on time and could not change first. Bar tee-shirt, black jeans. Not the right attire. I stuck out.

Now I am standing there and asking about long vs short form and which we will be using. “Well, neither really.” Mixed form Tia Chi and G Kung. Or what one friend called it today, “Senior Form” !! I loved that.

Several routines, moves where accompanied with comments like, ‘This is great for circulation!” or “This one really helps arthritis!” or (my favorite) “This one will lower and regulate your blood pressure like nothing else can”!

I’ll be damned if these ‘seniors’ didn’t wear my ass out! Tia Chi as I learned a long time ago is slow, methodical and melodic. These folks where anything but slow! My goodness it was hard not to giggle and call someone on it.

Well, I learned some G gung but not how to spell it. I learned a few, very few, poses or positions and then ran off to theater. I felt older than most there but looked MUCH younger. Very amusing for me.

I will let you know next week if I retained anything or practiced.  Or if I stop giggling at my own thick head and being surprised when I walked it. Too damn funny.

Peace –

Ant-Knee