@pelf: Haha, I wouldn’t have noticed the “bang” usage being awkward or out-of-place at all. I swear everytime I look at my legs I’ll notice a new bruise – meaning I walk into things more often than I can care to remember.

@CC: I guess it’s like when you lose a sense completely – you sharpen the ones you have left to compensate. So yeah, rightyness has definitely been a crutch my entire life. It should prove interesting (or even beneficial) to mix it up once in awhile.

Yes, yoga is *all* about evening up the asymetries in the body. It’s so great, and I can feel when I haven’t gone. Just like when we do handstands and are learning to balance our weight the opposite way and even just simply engaging different muscles that we don’t usually think about and strengthening them during practice is an awesome thing!

Also, I’ve been trying to fix my habit of standing/favoring the left leg. I dunno if that’s why, but my right leg is rather more inflexible than my left. Have you noticed anything like that, or has yoga been able to remove such assymetries? =)

I’m a confused lefty…precision movements such as writing and eating are the domain of the left, while brute force goes to the right side (throwing, kicking, using scissors). Maybe that’s why I suck so bad at sports….?

But some things go both ways (frisbee and ping pong are two examples)…jack of all trades master of none? Regardless, in my opinion, the habits that we build are what really make it happen…when I broke my left hand, I started doing everything right-handed, and realized how many things I couldn’t do decently right-handed (e.g. brushing teeth)! The lesson here may be that we CAN or COULD HAVE done things with different handedness, and it’s a matter of comfort or habit. For example, I started writing right-handed right after the break and, although it was slow and annoying at first…well, by then the left hand healed up, so who knows?