I thought I broke my tailbone. Yep, in the wee hours of the morning a couple of weeks ago, tired from travel and children thrown off schedule from it, my foot slipped out from under me while I was headed downstairs (with the babe in my arms, no less), and I slammed, butt first, down on the stairs. I think I might have bounced down them a couple of times, but was more worried about my three-month-old than anything. Luckily, we were both just severely startled.
After my breath returned and my husband and I both did a thorough check of our youngest one, I realized that my booty was SORE. After a week or so of mostly standing and only sitting when absolutely necessary, I went to the chiropractor. God love her, I’m on the mend, with a bruised backside and coccyx, but no broken tailbone.
As always, I ponder at this at the learning opportunity it is. As I sit here on my boppy typing away, I’m reminded of how many times students have asked me what exactly I mean by “scoop your tailbone.” How often in my own practice I’ve worked at tucking that little sucker in downward-facing dog. The times I’ve tried to send it back in Utkatasana (chair pose). Its purpose in mulabhanda, which by the way, means “root lock”. I even asked my chiropractor what on Earth the tailbone is for anyway, for instance, is it the appendix of the butt? No, she answered incredulously. Evidently, it’s a muscle attachment. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know that.
An “aha” moment startled to bubble up as I read an article referencing the word “radical”, so I looked up its definition. Did you know that to be radical, you arise from or go to the root of the source? How rad is that?!
So go to your root of the source this week. Maybe its contemplating how you’re connected to something from which you find inspiration. Perhaps its an examination of something in order to get closer to it. Or, it might be as simple as walking barefoot through the cool grass of springtime and wriggling your toes in the dirt.
Whatever it is, get radical!
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