Up close and personal...

As many of you know, I am quite prudish, perhaps a bit of a wallflower, so I was somewhat embarrassed in some of the positions I found myself in last night... It all started out as an innocent Bikram Yoga session... so far there has been a mixture of male, female, Korean and Western teachers. Last night's one was a bit special, he was wearing only shiny lycra hotpants for a start. I couldn't quite place his accent.. American, Canadian, possibly with a Texan slant? Couldn't tell. But he did say Meeeeeeha instead of mirror. Alot. In fact over 26 times. Hard to practice calm meditation, balance and poise when you'd rather be in kick boxing the teacher. Anyway, I digress.

I'm not sure whether it was because I was lucky, special, in need of help, good, bad or plain blonde, but he managed to give me lots of "hands on assistance". I would have thought that after an hour of hot yoga when I was drenched in sweat it would have been a pretty bad move on his part. First he decided to hold my feet down in this pose.... not too bad, but I try to avoid my feet whenever possible and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone else to go near. (excuse poor drawings... it's hard to draw in paint with a laptop mouse, and I know it's not to scale or physically correct, but I'm sure it gets the idea across...)

Secondly, I got some lower back support in the next pose pictured - my shorts were at the completely drenched stage by this time, but if it's all in the name of a good stretch then I suppose it's ok... I should point out here that my shorts were a lot bigger than the ones pictured, but his weren't far off these beauties...

The last bit of assistance was too much, but I really wasn't in any position to argue (literally, it's a thyroid compressing pose so I actually couldn't breathe, swear, or tell him to go and have a look in the Meeeha and have a word with himself about wearing miniscule lycra hotpants...). He held my feet in the "rabbit pose" - so called because I guess Mr Bikram thought "arse in air pose" wasn't very eloquent!