{"id":21,"date":"2007-03-22T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-03-07T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:58:09","slug":"measuring-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advance Yoga Posse did backbends tonight. Slowly, we opened the chest, backbending over the chair using it for support and feedback. It&#8217;s a lovely counter action to the rounding of shoulders, a result of always having life in front of us.<\/p>\n<p>What I noticed tonight was the progress the posse has made. Backbends for adults do not come easy and just a few months ago pushing up into a backbend wasn&#8217;t easy or even possible. Tonight not only was it possible but it was possible repeatedly so.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes our human nature tends to lean towards the negative. We don&#8217;t see how things change, even incrementally, because of our nature or our inability to be aware. Tonight not only did I see progress, but those <em>doing<\/em> the backbends recognized their progress. And that awareness and ability is <em>itself <\/em>progress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/Pam\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advance Yoga Posse did backbends tonight. Slowly, we opened the chest, backbending over the chair using it for support and feedback. It&#8217;s a lovely counter action to the rounding of shoulders, a result of always having life in front of us. What I noticed tonight was the progress the posse has made. Backbends for adults do not come easy<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}