The Corpse Pose

“As the group stood in silence under the glare of fluorescent lights, Ms. Moore removed a white sheet covering the body. Dissecting a human being can be an emotional and jarring experience, she said, so she suggested that the students give the cadaver, a 75-year-old female, a name, in recognition of her humanity. The group decided on ‘Betty.'” If you donate your body to science, you never know where it will end up. It turns out that fitness professionals and massage therapists can learn a lot with an inside perspective. NYT (Gift Article): Why Yoga Teachers Are Learning to Dissect Cadavers. (I’m so shockingly stiff that working with a dead body would be the perfect prep for any practitioner attempting to get me to bend to their will.)