Dental yoga

Yesterday my yoga teacher N used an interesting image to describe the way an action on one body part affects the rest of the body. "It's like a toothpaste tube," she said. "You  squeeze at the bottom, and the toothpaste rises up through the tube." So, when you're seated in, say, sukhasana (the so-called "easy" pose, with legs crossed "Indian-style"), squeezing your buttocks causes the energy from that action to squirt up your spine like toothpaste.

I'm tempted to extend the notion to spitting, rinsing, gargling ... flossing? Perhaps not.