Tadasana - Mountain Pose
Tadasana
'Tadasana' she says - arms straight out in front palms facing - stiff like ramrods.
My muscles wake with surprise shoulder joints shudder in shock my arms ache and shake.
'Now up above your ears and reach for the ceiling' up I stretch - and arms miraculously grow longer and alive and suddenly a wave of chattering, timid tendons bones and muscles are let out of my body's dungeons creaking, twittering with surprise and pleasure smiling at one another as they find space to spread and breathe.
My centre shifts this new body balances and delights in its lightness of being