overstuffed

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you know that feeling that you get after excellent sex? [or excellent masturbation] where you're all exhausted but totally fucking happy at the same time? and if you're a woman or a lucky man? there was probably more than one orgasm.

i feel like that right now.

and since y'all know that i was bleeding from my urethra on wednesday morning you can imagine that it wasn't sex. cause frankly the idea of touching or being touched anywhere NEAR there?

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

anyway from this you must gather that i am not discussing orgasm. well at least not one that involves the genitals *grin*

*brief pause for dirty thoughts*
*(wonders why such thoughts are 'dirty'*

i am in fact experiencing post conference bliss. in fact? i don't even have words for how much fun i'm having [or how full my brain is]. all of the people involved in this shindig are wonderful and happy people who are living the best lives they can imagine. don't get me wrong, i'm certain that they consider it work but at the same time? they're clearly loving it.

marie jose blom lawrence was on the menu today (and tomorrow). she is a wonderful lady who became a stewardess so that she could take classes from all the teachers and fly for free. sheer genius i tell you. course she's been teaching full time for years now.

yesterday was alan herdman and he. well. i have to move to england.

no seriously i have to find a way to spend a year in London studying under him. that i've certified already? that i have no money and a thriving practise?

DOES NOT MATTER!

well of course it does. so i would have to do it like over the course of six summers or some crap like that but i don't care? i want to follow him around and sit at his feet and just. oh my god.

marie jose did that to me last year, and to a certain extent this year but i have EU citizenship and i don't have rights in the usa. so i'll take london thankyouverymuch.

for now i just want to get to seattle but there is no way i can swing airfare AND tuition let alone a hotel room. damm those workshops sound mindblowing and i'm a greedy bitch. some of these teachers are *old* now and must be studied with while they're still teaching. Already there are only like six people left in the world that still teach and actually studied with Joe.

[my picks to take if a trip to seattle magically appears]
[Mary Bowen - Pilates and Psyche ]
[Mary Bowen - The Spine ]
[Alan Herdman - Progressing to the Advanced Work ]

MUST!

oh i wish i had a million dollars sometimes. then i would take a few of years and go train with alan and marie jose and kathy corey and anyone else i feel like that i haven't met yet and don't know about. and then i'll go see if
elizabeth larkam will let me dance with her and then?

then i'll open a studio and fix broken people forever. :)

ahhh that sounds like such bliss. really learning first instead of this winging it and trusting my gut shit that i do now. i mean it's a good gut but there's a lot of information it doesn't have and i'm afraid it only has a surface understanding of what it's looking at.

and the good teachers? they all trust their guts, they just have a lot more information to feed to theirs.

i've noticed something about teachers that i respect, they all have three key traits in common.

all of them have a thirst for learning which keeps them out there asking questions and learning from each other and being curious at all times. okay probably not when they're walking the dog.

all of them would love to answer any question you can throw at them, the tougher the better. and the longer you give them the more they'll answer it. they'll offer to show you without expecting you to pay them (within reason) and they will expound.

all of them never stop teaching. they want to share everything they know with you and they just wish that they had more time to do it in.

i think i might be like that a little. i don't know if i'm at their level, i'm lazy and a climber and a blogger and i hate reading textbooks but i have the second two for sure.

hmmm i think i've thought of a fourth trait. they are creative and willing to admit that they don't know. that's five? the first three are the big ones.

i know a lot of really excellent teachers who stopped learning a long time ago and think that they know everything. they won't be legends like these people are. it's impossible. but better than that?

when i see someone like alan herdman thinking about a question or learning something from marie jose or whatever? i see that i've found a calling that involves lifelong learning *and* it reinforces how little *i* know.

i hope there are always teachers like that around to learn from, in fact i think i study from one of the next generation now.

ah !

*little dance*

i'm inspired!

and so tired i'm eating leftovers and passing out!


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Sass Inak came to Pilates by way of a car accident and by the time she met her Teacher her once fit body was overweight, shuffling and occasionally crawling up the stairs. By her third lesson she knew she had found her calling and has enthusiastically pursued further knowledge and experience ever since. Sass tends to specialise in 'broken' bodies but equally enjoys teaching groups and fit people. [She certified through Body Harmonics/The PhysicalMind Institute and continues her studies at Mind the Body and by taking workshops from legendary teachers]

how's that for a bio? and :
for a pic? [new job part time maybe... at a wellness centre :)]