New! Fetish Yoga. It’s good for you

New! Fetish Yoga. It’s good for you

One of the exercises our teacher took us though today: stand up, then bend over to touch the mat with the hands while standing on tiptoe, flexing the thorax towards the thighs. It’s one of those positions that makes every muscle in your legs light up like a funfair: painful but very pleasurable too. Your really get a measure of what the yoga is doing for you. And the discomfort is its own reward.

The exercise starts with you leaning forwards with your arms out front and legs stretched out down behind. But it was the next step that caught my imagination: walk on tiptoe, until your feet ended up between your hands, almost folding yourself in two.

I watched the teacher’s feet held upright as she showed what we were to do. As she tiptoed towards her own hands in this fabulously unnatural way, her legs so marvellously vertical, I saw her in rubber showing off the Correct Technique While Wearing Ballet Heels. Inspired by her example, we set to assuming the position ourselves.

Now that’s a course to join: Fetish Yoga. Sign me up today, please.

By the way, the gorgeous white-haired goddess wasn’t there today, sigh.