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Sat 06 Jun 2009Bend it like Bikram
GETTING FIT:Bikram yoga is practised in a room heated to 40.5 degrees and uses a tourniquet technique, whereby stretching and balancing postures reduce blood supply. You have to try it to believe it, writes ANGELA RUTTLEDGE
SUPPLE, FLEXIBLE, calm, pure. All the things I’m not. I can’t get near my toes. Musing over why I’m so envious of the flexible, bendy people, I uncover my own mental link between flexibility and general ability, another link between flexibility and grace, from there a connection with femininity, and finally on to sexuality. In my twisted head it appears that bendiness is mixed up with attraction and success.
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