2019-04-01_Australian_Yoga_Journal

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april 2019

yogajournal.com.au

probably wasn’t ideal. But I was so
angry. And the only way out was
through: through slowly, over the course
of those weekends, beginning to learn
my body again. I replaced a loathing for
my pelvic cavity, with its propensity to
grow weird stuff, with an appreciation
for my abdominal muscles through 15
rounds of abs. I replaced an excruciating
sensitivity about my neck with an
emphasis on what it felt like to stack my
skull above my spine. As we learned
more and more about sequencing,
working with students, and understand-
ing injuries, I learned more and more
that my body could become some kind
of home. Maybe one that had a couple of
broken windows and weird closets, but
one that was mine. I’d spent years feel-
ing completely abstracted and then

more years feeling completely

dependent and trapped; here, finally, I

could come back. I could come home.

Excerpted from How To Be Loved:

A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship by

Eva Hagberg Fisher. Copyright © 2019.

Reprinted by permission of Houghton

Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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