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On learning how to stand, dreading the standing poses and standing on my head

I suppose that my parents taught me how to stand right before they taught me how to walk.   That was the first time.  The second time I was taught how to stand was in Yoga class.

In teaching me how to stand, I remember my yoga teacher, Sari, giving me these instructions: (a) straighten your legs; (b) put your feet together; (c) lift your knee caps; (d) roll your shoulders back and down; (e) do not over-arc your back; (f) soften your gaze; (h) relax your throat; and (i) feel the balls of your feet.  With the number of instructions I was given, I was so disoriented that my mind could not even command my body to stand still.  I literally lost my balance from simply standing.  Besides, it was unclear to me how I was supposed to relax my throat.  Could such act be done?

Who would have thought that standing was so difficult to do?  When I had to re-learn how to stand and found that it was not such an easy task, I learned not to take the seemingly simple things in life like standing for granted.  As soon as I learned this lesson, I also learned how to relax my throat.

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