Corona Yoga
My son Kevin is an Emmy award winning television sports director. He broadcasts games the Rangers, Mavericks and Stars play. He occasionally runs the jumbotron for Dallas Cowboys home games. He is also in demand for college games in various sports all over the country. He even directs wrestling matches. He has had a fabulous career and loves what he does. He had a big part in producing the highlight video for the Atlanta Olympics. He misses broadcasting the games and working with his broadcast crew. I’ve had the privilege of watching him work. The television crew is in a huge trailer loaded with equipment. Watching the professionals get a game on the air is more fun to watch than the game itself. It is split-second timing, working with as many as 16 cameras all over the playing field.
Since there are no sports right now, Kevin is unemployed. That does not mean he is not busy. Most mornings at 9 o’clock he is on his Facebook page (Kevin Lewis) conducting an hour-long yoga class. He has been studying yoga for 20 years and went through years of training to become a yoga master. He and his wife Jill even had their own yoga studio for a while
I’m slow getting to yoga. Never even thought about it until Kevin started doing it. Even then I didn’t pay much attention to it. I was extremely impressed that he was so diligent and dedicated to going through all the classes to become a certified yoga teacher. He has classes at some YMCAS in Dallas.
What caught my attention one day last year when he was showing my wife how yoga was similar to the daily exercises she was doing in a gym. He got on his back and stuck both his legs straight up into the air. His body took on the shape of a perfect letter L. I do work out daily and some of the exercises I do require me to try to do what Kevin did with perfect ease. I grunt and groan and my body resembles an overturned chair. Kevin’s movements are so sooth and fluid it’s like watching a ballet.
Yes, I’m doing yoga with him on Facebook. I’m getting better and try to keep up with him. Sometimes I just watch him do what I consider impossible things. I do expect him to levitate during one of these sessions. I have nearly learned to do a crescent lunge from the all four position. That’s where your hands and feet are flat on the ground making an inverted letter V, then taking one of your legs to the front of the mat while your upper body is rising up.
A lot of yoga positions are named for animals. I did some Internet research that indicated some of the early yoga practitioners watched animals and tried to imitate some of their movements and at the same time tried to think like the animals they were observing.
Up dog and down dog are yoga positions. I think there should be a lazy dog position. There is a corpse position but that sounds so final.
Namaste.