control
exercises.
In through the nose, pul ing energy up,
then out through
the mouth, trying to release tension in
her shoulders.
Though yoga required focus and
concentration for
maximum benefit, within three breath
cycles she knew that
was a lost cause for her today. But an
intensely physical
workout would be good. She’d work
both their asses off,
and then she’d be too exhausted to
think. Saying no to that
Tantric class would be automatic, no
more than a reflex
she’d conditioned and used countless
times to maintain her
privacy and solitude. That was best.
They went from breathing to standing
and stretching
asanas as warm-up, and then from
there she worked them
into the more difficult poses.
Unfortunately, it was hard to let
exertion numb her when Jon gave her
a yoga experience
like she’d never had before.
Even in advanced classes, she
couldn’t move at this
pace, not at this level of difficulty,
because the class
couldn’t read her mind. But he
seemed to anticipate her
every choice and moved easily with
her, so it was almost
as if they were bridging the gap
between a hatha approach
and ashtanga , which used flowing,
dance-like movements
to transition between postures. It was
exhilarating.
And no level of exhaustion could
help her overlook how
wel those poses displayed the male
body. It made one that
was already beautiful even more so.
When they transitioned
into Sleeping Thunderbolt, she found
herself studying him in
the corner of her eye. As he folded
himself to the floor on
his knees, he aligned his feet on the
outside of his hips,
planting that fine ass on the floor
between his calves. His
torso elongated in mouthwatering
display as he arched
back, his knees remaining on the
floor as his upper body
became a crescent and the back of his
head touched the
floor, his hands settling into a prayer
pose on his open
chest.
She’d put herself at a diagonal
position to him so that
she could watch his posture as his
teacher, but that was an
unnecessary adjustment, because his
form was flawless.
Watching those taut buttocks resting
on the floor, she
wished she could see the strain of his
thigh muscles
beneath the loose pants. She was al
too aware of the
camber of cock and testicles
emphasized by the upwardly
canted position of his hips. She
wanted to crawl over there,
slide her hands under the baby soft
cotton of the tank,
caress his abdomen, fol ow it with
mouth and fingers…
Sleeping Thunderbolt was a
misnomer, because it
awakened a storm inside her. Giving
herself a fierce
internal shake, she brought them out
of that for the next
phase, the inverted asanas , head and
handstands. When
she used the wal for hers, he waited
until she pushed up
and balanced. It was the only time
during the class he
hadn’t been in sync with her, and she
realized he was
spotting her, ready to catch her if
needed. It wasn’t one of
her personal y easier moves. Though
most of her students
wouldn’t have noted that, he
obviously had. While she was
qualified to teach yoga, yogis could
spend decades
perfecting the moves, and she’d only
been doing this for a
few years.
She’d turned up the room temperature
to maximize the
benefit of body heat for their
practice. It had put a loving
sheen of perspiration on his muscles,
which became more
pronounced as he stripped off the
shirt, put it aside and
then pushed up into a ful handstand.
He had no need of the
wal , those gorgeous shoulder
muscles creating a work of
art as he held his weight and balance
on his mat.
The ache in her limbs after that
sequence and a glance
at the clock, showing they’d been
going at it for ninety
minutes, told her it was time to take it
down. She moved
them back into a few sun salutation
repetitions, then down
for some floor stretches, easing into
the closing nidra . Her
limbs had turned to spaghetti, such
that she wobbled when
she
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