{"id":4326,"date":"2016-01-29T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T17:59:48","slug":"vertical-lift-horizontal-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/vertical-lift-horizontal-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"vertical lift, horizontal expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body prompt that holds authority<br \/>\nin my mind. Awareness of slumping,<br \/>\nawareness of collapse of rib cage.<br \/>\nAwareness of folding shoulders from the<br \/>\ncold or hesitancy or feeling threatened<br \/>\nor simply habit. A defeating self-<br \/>\nprotection. Why not be big (or<br \/>\njust appear so)? Horizontal expansion of<br \/>\nthe shoulders &#8211; and why not hips?<br \/>\nI love the vigor and capaciousness. <\/p>\n<p>Title from Yvette Rooke&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/iyi.org.uk\/my-story-of-iyengar-yoga-and-multiple-sclerosis\/\" target=\"_blank\">My story of Iyengar yoga and multiple sclerosis<\/a>, 7\/7\/2015. One of the messages she took from Garth McLean, yoga instructor: &#8220;Culture a vertical lift and horizontal expansion within the body.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A body prompt that holds authority in my mind. Awareness of slumping, awareness of collapse of rib cage. Awareness of folding shoulders from the cold or hesitancy or feeling threatened or simply habit. A&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-144"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}