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It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.
She's sitting propped up on the
Snooty high heels.
I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
Change Your Posture! Change Your LIFE!
Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.
I slouched, but this didn't help. Mary Hall stood
this TBT if you: Stand a lot;
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
What did my arms do before they held you?
Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
I like it when I strut.Strut-- Delta Burke
I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.
If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so Tight I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps ...
Two things I can't stand - sitting and sleeping.
Placid, adj.
Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The fabric of her retracting skirt increased the protrusion of her legs. When she was in position, Vaida made a fine adjustment to achieve the desired view.
When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.
The Buddha said, When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit. Don't wobble.
None though as bowed, small-boned, as my own peasant legs, which in their backward sway and inward turn, shaped by years of adherence to hostile terrains, possess a history of staying put.
Good posture can be beneficial to your health.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
Standing is stupid,
Crawling's a curse,
Skipping is silly,
Walking is worse.
Hopping is hopeless,
Jumping's a chore,
Sitting is senseless,
Leaning's a bore.
Running's ridiculous,
Jogging's insane-
Guess I'll go upstairs and
Lie down again.
Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable.
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
It is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed.
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.
muscles - stabilizing, supporting, or moving the lower
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which can then be filled with an acute awareness of the sensations given by the posture. You watch yourself from inside. It is a full silence.
(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.
I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
My legs are falling asleep," I blurted. It wasn't a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included.
"I could solve that." Patch's hands closed on my
hips.
I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
We sleep bent into pretzel shapes, our limbs arranged around our pets because we'd rather make an appointment with the chiropractor than disturb their purring slumber.
Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.
Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
Just stand. Bend. Balance.
kneeling down in front of
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
she is bent under the weight of her burden
When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
bent ostentatiously to her work.
I eased into my chair like a ninety-year-old with hemorrhoids.
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.
Crouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.
I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.
We move in spasms.
that amazing row of ab-mountains between hips so narrow even my sweet old Nana would imagine wrapping her legs around them.
O that these folding arms might ne'er undo!
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
Effortlessness is the key to success. Don't fight. Don't try hard. Just allow yourself to sit. This relaxing way of sitting is also resting. Allow your body to rest.
A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day!
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down ...
Fill all thy bones with aches.
I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
Sat down in such a smooth way it made me feel clumsy. Why did I care? I never thought about the way I sat down before. I
It seems the word 'slut' can be applied to any activity that doesn't include knitting, praying, or sitting perfectly still lest any sudden movements be deemed whorish.
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
The closer she hip sways to me, the taller and tenser I stand, until I'm so rigid my muscles ache.
Sit loosely in the saddle.
Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
It is a movement and a rest, you and I.
It's easier if you do a handstand,' commented Rebus. 'What is?' 'Talking out of your arse.
A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
I am telling you, the key to looking gorgeous is to never sit up straight. It implies you have not eaten enough to have the strength to sit like a regular person, which historically is sexy to everyone.
There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
Sitting meditation begins with good posture.
saw how I slumped in
I don't like to sit still.
Sit down on your ass, or what's left of it after four years in the navy.
It's a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren't enough.
I suck in my stomach and arch my back ... There's really no attractive way for a woman to sit down.
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.