[fortitudine]

Hi Mark,

I have been doing aqua aerobics for years as well as some yoga. I attribute my relatively pain-free spine to those activities as the films all attest to lots of nasty deterioration.

As I am temporarily housebound due to foot surgery, I have hired a yoga trainer to keep me fit. He told me something interesting yesterday, which relates to your comments about posture: he said that physiotherapists do things to you to help you get better and give you isolated exercises, but that yoga forces you to do all the work and build new habits. I am pretty convinced he's right.

I hope there's a happy and non-surgical outcome to this latest challenge!

Hope