So, You Say You Want to Do the Splits?
Written by Eiko, a yoga teacher based in Osaka, the book has you do several minutes of yoga
and gentle bouncing every day for a month, at which point you’ll be able to do the splits while seated on the floor.
But the bulk of the book consists of a slightly strange short story — "How Are You Going to Achieve Anything If You Can’t Even
Do the Splits?" — about two shame-ridden employees of a corporation in Japan who discover the joys and benisons of shake yoga.
But Oba and Umemoto’s lives change dramatically when their new boss Hori encourages them to start meeting in the conference room at 7:30 a.m., where they cover the floor with some "picnic sheets for cherry-blossom parties"
and then stretch and bounce their way to a new life — the kind of life that’s led by people who can do the splits.
It only takes several pages for Eiko to lay out her regimen — you do two minute-long exercises a day, one wherein you lie on your back
and pull your outstretched leg backward with a towel and then bounce, and another where you do a legs-spread sumo stretch and then bounce.
Eiko said that If your body is stiff, it becomes harder and harder to do things like walk, step over things, pick things up, sleep or even sit,
On the streets of Osaka now, schoolboys point their fingers at the so-called Queen of Splits
and scream "Hey, it’s the Queen!" Meanwhile, The Times of London has heaped upon the new monarch a notably un-British encomium: Eiko is "watchably bendy." Two factors would seem to be fueling the book’s success.
Written by Eiko, a yoga teacher based in Osaka, the book has you do several minutes of yoga
and gentle bouncing every day for a month, at which point you’ll be able to do the splits while seated on the floor.
But the bulk of the book consists of a slightly strange short story — "How Are You Going to Achieve Anything If You Can’t Even
Do the Splits?" — about two shame-ridden employees of a corporation in Japan who discover the joys and benisons of shake yoga.
But Oba and Umemoto’s lives change dramatically when their new boss Hori encourages them to start meeting in the conference room at 7:30 a.m., where they cover the floor with some "picnic sheets for cherry-blossom parties"
and then stretch and bounce their way to a new life — the kind of life that’s led by people who can do the splits.
It only takes several pages for Eiko to lay out her regimen — you do two minute-long exercises a day, one wherein you lie on your back
and pull your outstretched leg backward with a towel and then bounce, and another where you do a legs-spread sumo stretch and then bounce.
Eiko said that If your body is stiff, it becomes harder and harder to do things like walk, step over things, pick things up, sleep or even sit,
On the streets of Osaka now, schoolboys point their fingers at the so-called Queen of Splits
and scream "Hey, it’s the Queen!" Meanwhile, The Times of London has heaped upon the new monarch a notably un-British encomium: Eiko is "watchably bendy." Two factors would seem to be fueling the book’s success.
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