好玩的

又去蹭饭了,这次是学生家,满满一桌的中餐无从下手啊😄饭后孩子妈妈说带我去逛集市,才知道就是那个我每天经过的那个被我当作是农副产品展销会的地方。原来那么好玩,有民族歌舞表演有小吃摊有各种传统的游乐项目包括踩高跷啥的都是免费的[微笑]那个人肉摩天轮,我叫的不行,孩子妈妈说她天天来我是叫的最响的一个[尴尬]。亮点是我的印第安造型,配上红唇和烟熏会更带感吧,真想再去啊,可惜明天就没了[流泪]

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米国爸妈

和米果爸妈的第一顿正式散伙饭,终于去了大名鼎鼎的Miguel啦。其实不是真的名气很响,而是偶的米果爸妈喜欢所以经常听他们提起。这貌似是我第一次吃墨西哥菜哦,超级喜欢。我点的其实就是豪华版的KFC的墨西哥鸡肉卷,这么说来也不是第一次了,因为我以前就很爱吃墨卷。

饭后去了他们家扫货,上次他们就说走的时候会留下一些东西给遗留给我和Monica,我当时还说我家什么都有了可以都给M,今天去了一看哇噻原来有那么多宝贝啊。超级舒服的躺椅打印机电磁炉地毯熨斗熨衣板还有各种厨房用品,都是他们来这里后买的。他们说这些我们都不准备带走就留给你,等你离开清迈了可以把这些留给其他有需要的人或者你缺钱你也可以卖掉。我拿了一个兔斯基和一个小电饭煲想着可以煮红豆汤什么的。其它就给M吧。

宜人的气候(相对曼谷而言)丰富的美食,低廉的物价,友善的人们,大量的工作机会,使清迈成为很多西方小年轻走出国门开始他们游牧般生活的第一站。他们在这里呆上一段时间做一做义工教一教书玩一玩积累点经验和谈资再跑去其他更具挑战的地方。所以这里就像一个中转站,一年半载的就差不多了。租一套公寓或者便宜的别墅,大多数情况下里面有张床和沙发就不错了,很多都要自己买,走的时候再拿到脸书的二手市场去卖掉。米国的爸妈也完全可以这么做可是他们没有。其实想想他们在做的事情和准备做的事情就觉得这很正常了。

第一天上tesol的时候,我担心着自己的听力怕跟不上同班的那些native speaker。Lynn爷爷做我边上,很多情况下他会问我刚刚别人讲了什么,我当时想爷爷您年纪都一大把了还折腾个什么教书啊。后来我知道他大学选历史工作后做了市场,退休后又一直在美国各个国家公园工作,他和妻子来清迈考tesol是因为他们想去亚美尼亚教书,他说那里的大学太穷请不起外教所以他们想去那里免费给他们教书,包括来回机票住宿伙食全部自掏腰包。但是他没有很多教学经验所以又来了这里考证书再花半年时间自编教材做ppt。对了他还买了个助听器[微笑]

在这半年间他们就像家人般地关心我。带我去好吃的馆子吃饭,介绍我认识他们的朋友,耐心倾听我的各种心事,有时候大家吃饭时我随意说起一个小麻烦,第二天会收到Lynn爷爷的一封长长的邮件说他昨晚吃饭时脑子有点糊涂回家后他想了想觉得这件事是咋样咋样的。

我希望自己老的时候也能像他们这样,不用让子女纠结是不是要送去养老院,也不要和亲家抢着给儿孙把屎把尿,而是依然可以像年轻时一样四处走走看看,发光发热。

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下犬式

最近开始在家里跟着视频做瑜伽,效果一般,本来就对很多体式不熟悉,换成英文后夹杂许多身体器官的单词就更加不知所云,尤其是平躺的体式只能靠听,到最后就不是练瑜珈而是练听力了关键练来练去还是歇菜。找了一个网站学习体式的英文表达,每天学习一个体式,试着翻译玩玩熟悉体式和身体的单词

Downward Facing Dog Pose 下犬式/ Adho Mukha Svanasana(梵文名字)

Step by Step :
1.From all fours, on hands and knees. Firm your hands down, fingers spread, base of index finger grounded.四肢着地,双手下压,手指张开,食指底部紧贴地面。
2.On an exhalation, push yourself away from the floor , lift your hips and push yourself back into the down dog pose, an upside down V pose.伴随着吐气,将身体推离地面,抬高臀部,将身体往后推进入下犬式,即看似是V的一个体式。
3.Keep you knees initially bend to lengthen the spine, taking the hips up and away from you. Then if possible extending the legs, while maintaining the length in the spine. Taking the top of the thighs and knees back.起先可以稍稍弯曲膝盖以便伸直脊柱,臀部上提。如果可以的话,在保持脊柱平直的前提下伸直腿部。感受到大腿根部和膝盖往后的力量。
4.Press upper arms towards each other, shoulder blades down along the spine, but widen the shoulders at the back.感受上臂互相靠拢的力量,肩胛骨随着脊柱一起下沉,但是同时保持后背的肩部扩张。

Benefits :

Strengthens the upper body, arms, shoulders, chest and legs强健上体,手臂,胸和腿部
Stretches chest, shoulders拉升胸部和肩膀
Stretches the whole back of the body, ankles, calves, hamstrings, spine拉升整个后背,脚踝,小腿,腿筋,脊柱
Calms the mind有助神志清醒
Overall energizes the body有助于全身的体力充沛

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Plank Pose平板式 / High Chaturanga

Step by Step :

From all fours (hands and knees). Press your hands actively in the floor, fingers spread, creases of the wrist parallel to the front of the mat. Arms straight, firm the upper arms in toward each other.四肢和膝盖着地,双手下压,手指张开,腰部和地面平行,伸直双臂,内旋上臂感受双臂互相靠近的力量。
Extend one leg back, toes tucked on the floor, then the other leg, so you are in a high push up position, plank pose. Position your shoulders right over your wrist, your body in a straight line.向后伸直任意一条腿,脚尖点地,伸直另一条腿,进入平板式,就像是抬高的俯卧撑。肩部在手腕上方,身体呈直线。
Shoulderblades move down along the spine, and firm them into the back, but press the part between the shoulderblades up towards the ceiling. Lift the front of the body into the back of the body.肩胛骨下沉与脊柱在同一平面,($〜£>$*+}+#-€|,)
Spread the collarbones, and lift the top of the shoulders.张开锁骨,肩部顶端上提
Pull the navel in and up slightly.微微内收上提肚脐
Pull up the thighs press the top of the thighbones up towards the ceiling. At the same time lengthen the tailbone towards your heels.大腿向上感觉股骨贴近天花板。同时向脚跟处延伸尾骨。
Bring your heels towards the wall behind you.脚跟往后感觉要触碰身体后方的墙壁
Draw the legs together without actually moving them, this creates more core strength and stability.在不移动双腿的前提下, 感觉双腿靠拢,这样可以保持核心的有力和稳定。
Look at the floor to a point some distance in front of you, eyes soft, jaw relaxed.双眼看向前方地板,眼部和下巴放松
You can stay in this pose anywhere between 5 -15 breaths.保持此姿势做5到15个深呼吸。
To come out you can push yourself back into downward facing dog pose or lower the knees to the floor and rest in Childpose.可以回到下犬式或者膝盖着地后到婴儿式来离开这个体式。

Benefits :

Strengthens your upper body, arms, wrist, spine强健上身,手臂,手腕,脊柱
Done correctly, strengthens your abdomen, core, legs动作正确的话,强健腹部,核心和腿部
Prepares the body for more challenging arm balances为一些具有挑战性的手臂平衡动作做准备

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Warrior I Pose 武士一式/ Virabhadrasana I

Step by Step :

Stand in Tadasana / Mountain Pose, with your feet hip width apart, hands in your sides. Take a big step back with your left leg, so your left foot points to the left about 45 to 60 degrees. Make sure your feet are still hip width apart.山式站立,双脚分开与髋同宽,左腿往后跨一大步,左脚左转45度到60度,此时两脚距离仍是与髋同宽。
There is about a legs length distance between the feet, but more important is stability, so if your feet need to be closer to be stable, do so.两脚间的距离大约为腿的长度,需要的话,可以缩短两脚间的距离来保持身体的稳定。
Roll your outer right hip back a bit and the outer left hip forward, but most importantly make sure your upper body is facing the front of the mat.右边的胯部向移后左边的胯部向前推,保持上身面向正前方。
Bend your front knee, the thigh towards parallel to the floor, keep the weight in the front heel and big toe.弯曲前膝,大腿与地面平行,把重心放在前脚脚跟和大脚趾。
Back foot is pressing from outer heel and lifting from inner arch, keep the back leg working, this is your anchor.后脚脚跟外部紧贴地面,内足弓稍稍抬起,后腿有力,这是你身体的支架。
Rotate the outer calf and thigh from your back leg forward to help square the hips.将小腿和大腿的外部肌肉内旋,以保持胯部面向正前方
Quadriceps of back leg lifts up and top of femur presses back. Quadriceps lift from knee. Frontal hip bones lift up, release buttock flesh down away from lumbar.股四头肌上提,股骨顶端往后压,股四头肌从膝盖开始向上提,胯骨前部上提,臀部放松。
Draw your abdomen gently in and up.稍稍吸腹并上提
On an inhalation lift your arms up forward keeping your arms shoulder width apart, arms straight, keep them before your ears, so you can keep the shoulders released away from the ears. 伴随着吸气,上举手臂与肩同宽,伸直手臂,将手臂摆在耳朵前面的位置以此获得肩部的放松。
Elongate spine, back ribs sideways, all sides lift from pelvis equally, top of sternum lifts up, collarbones spread.延长脊柱,后背肋骨向两边伸展,保持身体的每一部分从盆骨开始对称地上提。
Widen between the shoulder blades, base of the shoulder blades are lifting in and up towards the spine. Firm triceps in to straighten the arms.肩胛骨打开并从她的底部开始向内向上靠近脊柱
If you can bring your arms higher up without compressing the neck, you can start looking up, coiling from the thoracic spine, lifting the breast bone, keeping the front ribs down. Maybe even bringing the palms together. Again make sure you do this without compressing the back of your neck.如果你可以在颈部放松的前提下将手臂举想更高处,你就可以仰头,提高胸骨,可以的话合掌。
Stay in this pose between the 5 and 15 breaths, softening your face, and feeling the strength arising from your foundation.在这个体式停留5到15个深呼吸,感受身体自下而上的力量。
To come out inhale and press through your back heel as you straighten the front leg, on the out breath you lower your arms.从这个体式出来的话,吸气时后脚跟下压并伸直前腿,呼气时放下手臂。
Step the back foot forward coming back to Tadasana, and than repeat on the other side.收后腿回到山式站立,换另一边。

Benefits :

Strengthens legs and pelvis muscles.强健腿部和盆骨肌肉。
Open hip joints and correct painful conditions around the sacrum.打开髋关节并减少骶骨周围的疼痛感。
Improves balance and posture.提高平衡力,改善体式。
Stretches and strengthens the ankles, calves and thigh muscles.拉伸并强健脚踝,小腿和大腿肌肉。
Done correctly, is good for knee problems.动作正确的话,有助于修复膝盖损伤
Improves mobility in shoulders and opens chest, and lungs.使肩部更灵活并打开胸部,胸部和肺部。

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