ANATOMY - I have nine anatomy teachers, and the eight my most inspiring are dead.
I am spending at least 35 hours a week with seven cadavers studying the mysteries of the human body. So far, my favorite thing I have learned is the anatomy of the brain. It is so complicated and beautiful.
The deep study of the physical body has helped me connect with what I already know about the energetic body from ayurveda and yoga. It is really exciting for me when I make those connections.
Yes, yes I do have an anatomy teacher who is alive and overloads me with concepts and homework but still, my most inspiring teachers are the seven who have donated their bodies to me to study. I get to use their bodies to trace muscle attachments and innervations. I can see intimately what the diseases of breast cancer, lung cancer, Parkinson's, dementia and heart failure have done to the affected organs. These seven people have generously offer themselves up in service for me to learn the deep mysteries of the human body so that I will be able to help others in my new career.
There is an eighth dead teacher who is encased in plastic and sliced into 1-inch sections. He teaches me the 2-D relationships of the muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organs which is like I will see on an MRI.
Wow mom. That's so cool.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the cross section pictures were just posters displaying everything. That's really awesome and weird that there's a bunch of 2D representations of the human body in the lab.
On the writing, I'd say bueno. And that's that.
Em