The Lighter Side (August 2017)

Whenever I teach the Six Healing Sounds, I go over the sounds first. I pronounce each sound loudly and clearly as if talking normally, and then have my students repeat the sounds. One time after teaching all of the sounds, I asked Stephanie, a repeat student, “What’s the caveat?” Expecting her to say something about how we aspirate the sound instead of speaking it aloud, she surprised me and said, ” You didn’t teach us the caveats, you only taught us the variations!”

For one of my TCC classes at the retirement community, I have to submit a list of the names of class attendees. I usually write them down so I don’t forget. However, this particular day I only had two students, Margaret and Ann, so I assumed I would be able to remember their names. However, to make sure I didn’t forget, I came up with Ann Margaret (the actress and the dancer). Simple to remember now.

When I taught Working the Pulley, I concentrated on one hand at a time. During one class, as I slowly pushed out the top hand, I asked the class, “What does this remind you of?” Instead of hearing the usual response, Push Pull, one lady stretched her hand further and said, “STOP,” and I immediately started singing the Supremes song…”In the Name of Love.” The whole class cracked up.