After work yesterday, I went to the gym. I got out of work slightly early, so I had time to do some cardio and weight work before my hour with Emilie.
The session with Emilie went pretty well, I think. It was emotional and somewhat stressful—they're always emotional, because we're working on some deep stuff here—but she says she's impressed with how fast I'm moving on some of this balance and posture stuff. I told her about our walk in the park (which she referred to as a hike after I described it) and how well the balance stuff had gone on Tuesday. Apparently I am more vertical than I was two months ago; it's harder to notice from inside, and she's commenting on what I achieve when carefully following her instructions to move that foot a little bit this way, and tilt my pelvis thus, and so on. The tricky thing is doing all of this at once, but I'm starting to internalize some of it.
Then I met![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and roadnotes for dinner and conversation. It was good getting a chance to catch up with her. We're both making, and thinking about, changes, me this internal/body stuff and her leaving her job and planning a move.
However, after Chinese food, we went to our old favorite La Lanterna for dessert. I'd forgotten that their bathroom is down a steep flight of stairs. That plus the gym wound up being the most steps I've done on one day in a few weeks. My knees were hurting on the walk home from the subway. They seem better this morning, but I've not left the apartment yet, so that's not strong evidence.
( workout and training session details )
The session with Emilie went pretty well, I think. It was emotional and somewhat stressful—they're always emotional, because we're working on some deep stuff here—but she says she's impressed with how fast I'm moving on some of this balance and posture stuff. I told her about our walk in the park (which she referred to as a hike after I described it) and how well the balance stuff had gone on Tuesday. Apparently I am more vertical than I was two months ago; it's harder to notice from inside, and she's commenting on what I achieve when carefully following her instructions to move that foot a little bit this way, and tilt my pelvis thus, and so on. The tricky thing is doing all of this at once, but I'm starting to internalize some of it.
Then I met
cattitude and roadnotes for dinner and conversation. It was good getting a chance to catch up with her. We're both making, and thinking about, changes, me this internal/body stuff and her leaving her job and planning a move.However, after Chinese food, we went to our old favorite La Lanterna for dessert. I'd forgotten that their bathroom is down a steep flight of stairs. That plus the gym wound up being the most steps I've done on one day in a few weeks. My knees were hurting on the walk home from the subway. They seem better this morning, but I've not left the apartment yet, so that's not strong evidence.
( workout and training session details )