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Posted 9/27/2010 10:29 PM (GMT -5)
Yoga instructor must have said "draw in your rectum" 5 times in reference to a position that involved pulling your core in and anchoring your heels, tailbone, arms and back. Then pulling the lower abdomen in and towards your back.

While instructing, she apologized to everyone because it was "taboo" to talk about our "nether regions."

Couldn't isolate my rectum and draw it in. Can you?
Posted 9/27/2010 10:39 PM (GMT -5)
Yes. I can. It's kind of like tightening your abdomen except in the back, same sort of feeling.
Posted 9/28/2010 12:37 AM (GMT -5)
yes...it's like doing Kegels.
Posted 9/28/2010 7:02 PM (GMT -5)
It's funny. I was hoping to get away from UC at Yoga Class and not be reminded about the mild inflammation that I'm maintaining with in my rectum. I've gotten to the point where gas and having to go to the bathroom are not an issue during class. Also helps not to eat beforehand :-)
Posted 9/28/2010 7:08 PM (GMT -5)
I have to agree, funny - if a teacher told me to draw in my rectum, I think I'd just guffaw!!!
Little would the teacher know what baggage she'd touched on ----!!
Posted 9/28/2010 7:38 PM (GMT -5)
hahahahah, songlady.

While instructing, she apologized to everyone because it was "taboo" to talk about our "nether regions."
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