Eutony

Eutony, what is it? It's eutony.

"You have to do eutony." What is it? I already told you, it's eutony. There's no explaining it. I looked it up in the dictionary, it's not there, of course, my old dictionary is like me, out of fashion. But I'll tell you, it's the art of taking yourself apart and putting yourself back together, sometimes improved. How do you get to this? You have to follow several steps, find out who teaches the classes and where, find out the fees, the hours, the days. Then an interview with the teacher, who in my case is named Frida and who listens to all your aches and pains, well, if she really listens to us I feel for her, how does her day end, an ouch! over here, another over there, well, the patience of a saint. She's a specialist in taking people apart.

The first day I arrive at the building door, there's already someone waiting. "Hi, are you here for Frida's class?" Yes, introductions, the start of public relations, entry into the clan, mind you, this is very important, in any self-respecting gym there has to be a clan, there's strength in numbers, the work of taking yourself apart isn't easy.

My first problem: lying down on the mat, I need double support for my head, because empty it weighs a lot and in this case that's no use to me. The teacher tells us to put a little ball under our sit bones, I know they're somewhere in the tush, but I can't find them, I ask my head for help and it tells me: I already helped you get to know them, now sort yourself out. I finally found them, but not for long, because the teacher decides to move the balls and put them the same way at the lower edge of the shoulder blade. I know I have one, but how do I take it apart to put the ball exactly where the edge is. I ask my head for help and what does it say: "you've got me hanging from the neck and you're asking me for help." But Frida keeps taking us apart, now the diaphragm, now the sternum, how am I supposed to move them separately if they're all stuck together?

So I'll tell you, that's how, slowly, we go about taking apart the skeleton, the one we knew from the charts but not in our own bodies. When the class ends we stay on the mat to put our skeleton back together, and do you know what's the first thing we do? It's line up for the bathroom (to fix our hair), because our kidneys kept working through the whole class, and the loose jaw helped build a warm bond among the students, since we all leave happy for having managed to put the skeleton back together. Now you know, eutony is eutony.