Random Thoughts 20
Here is something interesting I noticed about yoga classes. Whenever the class is instructed to do the quadruped spinal flexion-spinal extension exercise, the instructor always refers to it as Cat-Cow (or Cat-Dog). Something occurred to me recently. Whenever I do the exercise, I am always told to inhale when arching my back (Cow or Dog depending on the instructor) and then exhale when rounding my back (the Cat pose). So in other words, the Cow (or dog) comes before the Cat. So why is the pose call Cat-Cow? Shouldn't it be called Cow-Cat? Did you know a road is defined as anything that connects two points and a street is a public road with buildings on the sides, and an avenue runs perpendicular to a street (evident in the grid of Manhattan)? I find it funny that while I never looked up the true definition of those words